Hot on the heels of the cover stories and amazing photographs of their main characters, comes the first featurette of the exciting new Disney movie, Into The Woods. The Into The Woods trailer features clips from the movie, plus exclusive interviews with the cast, as well as the director, and the original creator of the musical.
The Into The Woods trailer boasts that this movie has some of the most amazing talent in the movie and musical world behind it --- Rob Marshall who directed the Academy Award winning Chicago, starring Renee Zellwegger and Catherine Zeta-Jones, plus it is being produced by the same producer who brought us the beloved musical, Wicked.
In the clips taken from the movie, we see the stellar Into The Woods cast singing bits of the movie's songs! These include Emily Blunt as the Baker's wife, Anna Kendrick as Cinderella, and Meryl Streep as The Witch. We also get to hear the personal thoughts of the director, Rob Marshall, on what this musical means to him. Stephen Sondheim, who wrote and composed all the songs in the original musical is also interviewed, and he only has high praises for the director and the entire cast of the movie, which boasts of some of the biggest names in Hollywood.
A-list actress and Academy Award winner Meryl Streep likewise only had praises to sing for director Rob Marshall. "He has such a musical sensibility.. almost like a conductor," Meryl says in the Into The Woods trailer. The actress also gushed about getting to play a role in a movie musical of such caliber as Into The Woods. "Nobody ever gets a chance to play this kind of heightened reality, fantasy, fairytale, married to a beautiful, beautiful score," she said.
Aside from the beautiful set production, score and stellar cast, at the movie's heart is a theme that everyone can take wisdom from. Emily Blunt shares in the Into The Woods trailer what she feels this movie is all about. "The woods really lure these characters, to discover what they really want in life," Emily shares. "The theme very much is be careful what you wish for. You should look at what you have, than what you want."
