Outside

Outside would be a 2024 American buddy road musical animated film directed by Jennifer Lee, from an screenplay by Lee and Victoria Strouse. Produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, the film would star the voices of Krysten Ritter and Rachael Taylor in the lead roles, with David Tennant, Dominic Cooper, and Ginnifer Goodwin in supporting roles. The film's score would be composed by Kris Bowers, while its songs would be written by Bowers and recurrent Disney songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Stephen Schwartz.
Disney would announce development on Outside in early 2020, with Lee being set to write and direct the movie. Ritter and Strouse would join as star and co-screenwriter, respectively, in mid-2020, while the cast would join during the next months. The filmmakers would consult with therapists about agoraphobia and post-traumatic stress disorder in order to potray them accurately in the film, while Lee would develop the film with a noticeably darker tone than most Disney films. The writers would also consult with Amputee Coalition in order to depict an accurate representation of amputee characters.
Outside would be released on May 27, 2024, and would met a highly positive critical and commercial reception. Critics would praise the film's screenplay, direction, vocal performances, score, animation, songs, and tone, and would earn 1.3 million dollars at the box office over a budget of 140 millions. The film would win Academy Awards for Best Animated Picture, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song.
== Synopsis ==
In an unknown world, there was a young princess named Frykt, who was as curious as possible... until one day, she got out of her castle, and was ambushed by an unknown attacker, who ended up taking nothing but her arms with his swords. Ever since then, the brave and curious princess became a scared one, afraid of going out in fear of death. Years later, Frykt and her new assistant, Frelser, are kidnapped by the same forces that harmed Frykt years ago, with the subsbequent escape leaving them in the word with nothing but a vehicle. Now, Frykt must learn to live in the outside world once again or else her whole kingdom will pay the consequences. 
== Voice cast ==
* Krysten Ritter as Frykt, a once-curious princess who developed agoraphobia and post-traumatic stress disorder after losing her arms when attacked as a child.
* Rachael Taylor as Frelser, Frykt's new personal assistant, who tries to help her cope with her PTSD as they travel to return to the castle.
* David Tennant as Morder, a sadistic and insane conqueror who aims to take over Frykt's kingdom, and the man who cutted off Frykt's arm. Tennant would describe him as "the ultimate psychopath. He almost always gets to kill his target, and when he dosen't kill somebody, is because he tortures them enough they want to be dead".
* Dominic Cooper as Hersker, a charismatic-yet-sensible king and Frykt's father.
* Ginnifer Goodwin as Dronning, a caring-but-strict queen and Frykt's mother.
Additionally, Alan Tudyk would voice the vehicle's computer system.
== Music ==
Kris Bowers would compose and conduct the film's score. Bowers would write a score that could be "a perfect balance between adventure, travel, emotion, and tragedy". Bowers would refer to Frykt's theme as "fearful and tragic" due to the character's background, while he would compose a theme for Frelser that "showcases this need to help she has". Bowers would call his theme for Morder "simply threatening, evil, and bombastic".
Bowers, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, and Stephen Schwartz would write the film's songs. Anderson-Lopez previously co-wrote the songs for Disney's Winnie the Pooh (2011) and the Frozen franchise, while Schwartz previously wrote the lyrics of the songs for Disney's Pocahontas (1997), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), and Enchanted (2007). Schwartz would describe the songs as being "very much like Hunchback's", stating that "they are not big Broadway-like musical numbers, but rather something big instrumentaly, but most importantly, emotional" and that "they help more to develop the characters rather than move the story forward". Anderson-Lopez would say that "she [would give] the songs a modern Disney melody" while Schwartz "[would give] them an old Disney lyrical style". Schwartz would say that "what Bwers does is basically tie-in the songs to the score in both its melody and thematic weight".
== Trivia ==
* This would mark the first Disney animated film to star a phisically impaired character.
** The film would also be the first Disney film to star a plus-sized character. Director Jennifer Lee would explain that "[the studio was] very careful on how plus-sized Frykt is, as [they] wanted her to not to look thin, but also ready for an adventure".
* This would be the first animated Disney film to feature songs written by Stephen Schwartz alongside somebody other than Alan Menken, as in Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, he wrote the lyrics, while the music was composed by Menken.
**This would also be the first Disney film to feature songs written by Kristen Anderzon-Lopez alongside somebody other than her husband, Robert Lopez.
** This would also be the first animated Disney film to be scored by a black composer
* It would be the first Disney film to feature a character with post-traumatic stress disorder..
* The film would be Krysten Ritter and Rachael Taylor's first animated film.
* Two "Hidden Mickeys" would be seen througth the film, one in a wall in Frykt's castle, and another at the operation table, with three buttons being shown in a style resembling Mickey Mouse's head.
* The film would have one of the most terryfing deaths in an animated Disney movie: Frykt would launch to Morder fire, cuasing him to be slowly burned alive, cuasing hom to develop a more demonic appearance. An enraged Morder would then try to attack and kill Frykt, only for her to make him fall to her planet's atmosphere, further burning him alive uti his burned completly and killed.
* Krysten Ritter, Rachael Taylor, and David Tennant previously worked together on Marvel's Jessica Jones (2015-19).
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