Dark & Light: The Enhanced Night

***Dark & Light: The Enhanced Night*** is an 3D animated action-adventure fantasy musical film produced by Rivera Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The third and final main installment, the fourth and last installment overall in the *Dark & Light* franchise and the sequel to *Dark & Light 2: The Rise of Dawn* (2019). The film was directed by the Rivera sisters from a screenplay by Valeria Rivera and Gary Trousdale. AnnaSophia Robb, Dakota Fanning, Peter Dinklage, Julia Roberts, Richard Kind, Elizabeth Banks, Tom Holland, Zoe Saldana, Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher, Nicole Kidman, Daisy Ridley and Josh Gad reprise their roles from the previous films, with newcomers Hugo Weaving, Bobby Cannavale, Amy Adams, Kristen Bell and Alan Tudyk. The film set four years after the events of *Dark & Light 2: The Rise of Dawn*, where Alina and Darcy are still separated from each other after they saved the Sun kingdom. However, an powerful villain who plans to turns the entire world into a different sources during the enhanced night. Alina and Darcy must reunited with each other in order to stop this villain and the enhanced night so they can return the world to their normal forms before it is too late.

*Dark & Light: The Enhanced Night* premiered on January 2, 2023 at the El Capitan Theatre and was released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in the United States on January 20, 2023 in IMAX, 3D, 4DX, and Dolby formats. It received positive reviews, many of whom considering it an improvement over its predecessor and praising the animation, musical score, voice acting, songs, characters, emotional weight of the story and conclusion, although some feel that the story is a bit derivative to the previous films.

## Cast

* AnnaSophia Robb as Alina Hopes, a teenage girl who is now a white creature.
* Dakota Fanning as Darcy Hopes, Alina's younger sister who is also now a dark creature.
* Tom Holland as Lucian, a loyal teenage boy who is one of the Sun creatures and later become Alina's fiancée.
* Zoe Saldana as Dawn, a lovely Sun creature who is the ruler of her own palace.
* Richard Kind as Might, a friendly shapeshifting monster who is Alina and Darcy's friend.
* Elizabeth Banks as Sarai, a skill mutant creature who is the leader of the friendly mutant monsters.
* Peter Dinklage as Frank Hope, Alina and Dracy's father.
* Julia Roberts as Madalyn Hope, Alina and Dracy's mother
* Zach Galifianakis as Corbin, a teenage boy who also transformed into a dark mutant creature and Darcy's fiancée.
* Isla Fisher as Afina, a polar creature who tried to help Darcy to the Sun kingdom.
* Nicole Kidman as Gilda, Afina's friend who also help Darcy to the Sun kingdom.
* Daisy Ridley as Brightside
* Josh Gad as Even
* Hugo Weaving
* Bobby Cannavale
* Amy Adams
* Kristen Bell
* Alan Tudyk

## Production

### Music

*Main article: Dark & Light: The Enhanced Night/Soundtrack*
In 2021, Cynthia Rivera confirmed that Alan Menken will return to compose the score for the film.

## Release

*Dark & Light: The Enhanced Night* held early screenings on January 4, 2023 and was released on January 20, 2023 in conventional Disney Digital 3D and IMAX formats. The film was previously set to be released on December 9, 2022 until getting pushed back to January 20, 2023 to take advantage of the empty month and due to favor of *Avatar: The Way of Water*. The film will be accompanied by the new Mickey Mouse animated short film, *Vacation Trouble*.

### Marketing

On April 27, 2022, Disney revealed the film's logo at the studio's CinemaCon panel. Walt Disney Studios' official YT channel released a teaser trailer on June 7, 2022, and was released in front of *Lightyear* in theaters a week later. It received 205.5 million views within the first 24 hours, the most for a film released by Walt Disney Pictures. The official trailer was released on September 9, 2022 during the 2022 D23 Expo and later released online. Disney also opted to go for a spoiler-free marketing method like their films under Marvel Studios. The final trailer was shown in front of *Avatar: The Way of Water* on December 16, with it releasing online a few days later on Monday.

A Lego video game based on all four films was announced, and was released on January 17, 2023, three days before the film's release, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Sega Fusion, Sega Prime and Nintendo Switch.

## Transcripts

### Main

To see the main transcript of the film, click here.

### Trailers

To see the transcript for the trailers of the film, click here.