{"id":2080395,"date":"2025-10-09T21:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2080395"},"modified":"2025-10-09T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:35:10","slug":"cynthia-erivo-to-star-in-animated-musical-bad-fairies-for-warner-bros-animation-and-locksmith-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cynthia-erivo-to-star-in-animated-musical-bad-fairies-for-warner-bros-animation-and-locksmith-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo To Star In Animated Musical \u2018Bad Fairies\u2019 For Warner Bros. Animation And Locksmith Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cynthia Erivo will star in the animated musical\u00a0<em>Bad Fairies<\/em>, the upcoming feature from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation. The film is an original musical comedy that follows a delightfully subversive gang of fairies as they shake up their magical world. The film is directed by Megan Nicole Dong and co-directed by Olivier Staphylas, from an original screenplay by Deborah Frances-White.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erivo will voice Jayne Staplegun, a trailblazing fairy whose defiant streak sparks a rebellion. <em>Bad Fairies<\/em>\u00a0marks Erivo\u2019s first lead role in a major animated feature film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_l9p56mhek5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_l9p56mhek5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (max-width: 767.95px) {\n        #_R_l9p56mhek5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 hidden pb-5 md:block\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_159p56mhek5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_159p56mhek5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) {\n        #_R_159p56mhek5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tony Award\u2013winning duo Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss will write the original songs, with multiple Grammy-nominated Isabella \u201cMachine\u201d Summers (Florence + The Machine) composing the score and contributing to the songs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The film\u2019s creative team also includes producer Carolyn Soper, editor Sim Evan-Jones, cinematographer James C.J. Williams, character designer Uwe Heidsch\u00f6tter, and heads of story Rikke Asbjoern and Chris Garbutt. Production is currently underway in London, with DNEG Animation serving as digital partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Bad Fairies<\/em>\u00a0will be the first feature released under the first look deal between Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation and will debut theatrically via Warner Bros. 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The film is directed by Megan Nicole Dong and co-directed by Olivier Staphylas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2080396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[40246,391009,391010,306876,327381],"class_list":["post-2080395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-cynthia-erivo","tag-locksmith-animation","tag-original-musical-comedy","tag-warner-bros","tag-warner-bros-pictures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cynthia-Erivo-To-Star-In-Animated-Musical-\u2018Bad-Fairies-For.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080397,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080395\/revisions\/2080397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2080396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}