Frozen 3 Footage Teases New Villain, and It Looks Like Olaf is Getting a Love Interest

Disney has shown disconnected a archetypal look astatine Frozen 3 astatine its instrumentality event, D23.

The conception connected the company's hugely-anticipated Frozen threequel capped disconnected the evening's festivities, opening with a alternatively ominous tune sung by Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell. Next up was a romanticist fig for Olaf the snowman sung by Josh Gad, earlier a clip from what looked to beryllium aboriginal successful the caller movie that revealed its villain.

Frozen 3 volition prime up the enactment arsenic Anna and Kristoff yet get married, an lawsuit which brings the full gang, including Elsa, Olaf and Sven the reindeer, to get backmost together. But connected the evening of the ceremony, a mysterious curtain of Northern Lights descends upon Arendelle's fjord, heralding the accomplishment of a caller threat.

Lyrics sung by Menzel and Bell picture this moment: "she sends an invitation from the Northern Lights truthful shining" which is aboriginal referred to arsenic a "cursed frozen heart."

"Doesn't it consciousness similar the satellite of Frozen is simply a spot different?" Bell said afterwards, earlier Menzel agreed that their characters were "going connected their biggest travel yet."

Of course, the series' wit volition not beryllium mislaid contempt a seemingly darker turn. Taking to the stage, Gad sang a funky romanticist tune suggesting Olaf volition autumn successful emotion — with a quality named Samantha, a cleanable callback to Frozen 2.

After each of that wrapped up, it was clip for that Frozen 3 footage, which began with a jagged snowflake fluttering down crossed Arendelle, until it's stopped by Elsa — frozen into an crystal block. Elsa is curious, and arsenic the remainder of the pack crook up ("they were doing rima to rima stuff!" shouts Olaf of the newly-weds), a glittering frozen walkway appears, stretching into the Northern Lights.

There's immoderate lighter worldly here, arsenic Anna chides Kristoff for not carrying her wedding formal train, and Olaf celebrates catching the bouquet, but rapidly Elsa meets a mysterious and threatening figure.

"Look what the Northern Lights dragged in," the fig exclaims, her look near unseen. Dressed successful a acheronian cloak and surrounded by much jagged snowflakes, the quality surely has a malevolent presence. "The celebrated sisters of Arendelle! We yet meet," the dependable says... and that's the extremity of the trailer.

Frozen 3 is acceptable to motorboat successful theaters connected November 24, 2027, 8 years connected from 2019's Frozen 2, with each of the franchise's halfway formed returning. Earlier this year, Kristen Bell played down a study that claimed she was acceptable to pouch $60 cardinal for voicing Anna successful Frozen 3 and the already-confirmed Frozen 4 — portion acknowledging she was inactive paid "very well" wide for the blockbuster Disney franchise.

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