Keane is the daughter of legendary Disney animator Glen Keane, who oversaw the design of Rapunzel in Tangled (he also led design work on characters like Aladdin and Ariel in The Little Mermaid). Further, Clare Keane will be acting as a consultant on the show. Alan Menken will also be returning to write songs along with Glenn Slater for the series.
Get a sneak peek of the 55-minute movie and grab the whole family for the most Tangled inspired prequel Then be sure to catch Tangled: The Series in it’s usual time slot starting March 24th at 7:30 pm ET.
Tangled will return most of the original voice cast from the 2010 film, including Mandy Moore as the Princess Rapunzel and Zachary Levi as Eugene “Flynn” Ryder. Tangled Before Ever After premieres today, Friday March 10th at 8 pm ET only on the Disney Channel. And as the studio moves on to Frozen 2, Tangled seems like a strong choice to continue on the small screen via the Disney Channel.
Now considered by many Disney fans as the picture that began the revitalization of Walt Disney Animation Studios, crescendoing into 2013’s instant classic Frozen, Tangled for some time was queued to have a sequel of its own from Walt Disney Animation Studios (which previously has made only one direct sequel, 1990’s The Rescuers Down Under). Twenty years later, it appears Disney hopes for the same success with Tangled, their 2010 animated film about the fairy tale of Rapunzel. Relatively well drawn for a weekly cartoon series (though certainly not up to par with the Walt Disney Animation Studios quality), and retaining most of the original cast, I didn’t mind at 7-years-old that Robin Williams was recast. In terms of Tangled 2, the production of Frozen 2 offers a rough time frame for how long it would take to make that movie was announced in March 2015, and released in November 2019. I can still recall as a kid getting up on Saturday mornings to watch Aladdin, the animated series continuation of the 1992 classic. Tangled was first announced in 2003 under the title Rapunzel Unbraided, with a 2007 release planned, but it actually took seven years to make it to the big screen.