Three-time Academy Award–nominated and Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award–winning actress Cynthia Erivo will star in the animated musical Bad Fairies, the upcoming feature from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and U.K. studio Locksmith Animation (Ron’s Gone Wrong, That Christmas). Announced in July of 2024, the original musical comedy follows a delightfully subversive gang of fairies as they shake up their magical world.
Erivo will voice Jayne Staplegun, a trailblazing fairy whose defiant streak sparks a rebellion. The project will mark the English actor’s first lead role in a major animated feature film project.
This will 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. Pictures on May 21, 2027.
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Bad Fairies is directed by Megan Nicole Dong (Centaurworld) and co-directed by Olivier Staphylas, known for his work with DreamWorks Animation including his Annie Award-nominated character animation for Puss in Boots, from an original screenplay by podcaster, comedian and filmmaker Deborah Frances-White (The Guilty Feminist).
Tony Award–winning duo Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (Six: The Musical) will write the original songs, with multiple Grammy-nominated Isabella “Machine” Summers (Florence + The Machine) composing the score and contributing to the songs.
The film’s creative team also includes producer Carolyn Soper, editor Sim Evan-Jones, cinematographer James C.J. Williams, character designer Uwe Heidschötter, and heads of story Rikke Asbjoern and Chris Garbutt.
Production on Bad Fairies is currently underway in London, with DNEG Animation serving as digital partner.
Erivo is repped by UTA, Entertainment 360, Peikoff Mahan and The Lede Company.
