Trolls World Tour B-roll , Soundbites
As we made this film, we were workshopping a play. We put it up on reels in hand-drawn storyboards; then we criticized it and tore it down. In some cases, we started fresh with the ideas. Others, it was ‘This is a proof of concept; let’s keep going.’
You have to push for that moment you wouldn’t expect the characters to express—but you know half of the audience was feeling…but couldn’t quite articulate until the character says it out loud.
Or, you shamelessly fart glitter.
Plus, when a naked man lays an egg, that seems to work, too.”
—Gina Shay, Producer
ANNA KENDRICK and JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE return in Trolls World Tour, an all-star sequel to DreamWorks Animation’s 2016 musical hit, Trolls. In an adventure that will take them well beyond what they’ve known before, Poppy (Kendrick) and Branch (Timberlake) discover that they are but one of six different Trolls tribes scattered over six different lands and devoted to six different kinds of music: Funk, Country, Techno, Classical, Pop and Rock. Their world is about to get a lot bigger and a whole lot louder.
A member of hard-rock royalty, Queen Barb (RACHEL BLOOM), aided by her father King Thrash (OZZY OSBOURNE), wants to destroy all other kinds of music to let Rock reign supreme. With the fate of the world at stake, Poppy and Branch, along with their friends—Biggie (JAMES CORDEN), Chenille (CAROLINE HJELT), Satin (AINO JAWO), Cooper (RON FUNCHES) and Guy Diamond (KUNAL NAYYAR)—set out to visit all the other lands to unify the Trolls in harmony against Barb, who’s looking to upstage them all.
Cast as members of the different musical tribes is one of the largest and most acclaimed groups of musical talent ever assembled for an animated film. From the land of Funk are MARY J. BLIGE, GEORGE CLINTON and ANDERSON .PAAK. Representing Country is KELLY CLARKSON as Delta Dawn, with SAM ROCKWELL as Hickory and FLULA BORG as Dickory. J BALVIN brings Reggaetón, while ESTER DEAN adds to the Pop tribe. ANTHONY RAMOS brings the beat in Techno, and JAMIE DORNAN covers Smooth Jazz. World-renowned conductor and violinist GUSTAVO DUDAMEL appears as Trollzart and CHARLYNE YI as Pennywhistle from the land of Classical. And KENAN THOMPSON raps as a newborn Pop Troll named Tiny Diamond.
Trolls World Tour is directed by WALT DOHRN, who served as co-director on Trolls, and is produced by returning producer GINA SHAY. The film is co-directed by DAVID P. SMITH, co-produced by KELLY COONEY CILELLA and executive produced by DANNIE FESTA, all of whom worked on Trolls. Trolls World Tour features original music by Justin Timberlake, who earned an Oscar® nomination for his song for Trolls, “Can’t Stop the Feeling,” and a score by THEODORE SHAPIRO (Last Christmas, The Devil Wears Prada).
HELLO, POPPY, AND OUR TROLLS FRIENDS
Long Way from Home
Once upon a time, or so it’s been passed down through the generations to Poppy and her kind, all Trolls lived in perfect harmony, and six strings on an unbreakable lyre bound their musical multiverse together.
The Pop Trolls, as well as the ones from the tribes of Country, Techno, Classical, Rock and Funk explored their wildly innovative music and lyrics and flexed creative muscles surrounding their belly jewels.
As each genre began to feel less heard by its peers and suffocated creatively, sounds grew weary and the musicians wary. In time, the ancestral keepers of each of the six Trolls tribes—as well as wandering members of Reggaetón, Hip-Hop, K-Pop and even Smooth Jazz—scattered across the hinterlands. History belongs to, and is told by the victors, and so the Pop Trolls’ archival books recount our tale in this pop-washed way.
The Funk Trolls’ tomes illustrate a story of very different appropriators, those who lifted sounds and presented the work of imaginative peers as their own creations…
When Rock grows tired of playing second fiddle to Pop and sets out on a quest for long-delayed world domination, the Pop Trolls’ newly crowned Queen Poppy steps in to save the day. In the only way she knows how, Poppy begins her quest to unite the tribes once more—and show Barb the obvious error of her ways.
