Preview of Disney's Forthcoming November 2007 Film Enchanted

Scheduled for a world-wide release on November 21, Disney's latest and upcoming film Enchanted, directed by Kevin Lima, who co-directed 1999's box office hit Tarzan, features Amy Adams as the voice of an animated princess named Giselle ... until, of course, she is taken from her cartoonish, make-believe world and hurled into the very-much-real streets of Manhattan. Grey's Anatomy's Patrick Dempsey plays single-parent divorce lawyer Robert, who ends up taking a liking to the fish-out-of-water princess and gives her a home in the heart of New York.

Perhaps the film's most significant, notable feature is its return to "Disney roots," featuring a heroic, spunky princess in the spotlight, a character comparable to the now-legendary Disney princesses of Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Ariel (The Little Mermaid), Cinderella (Cinderella), and more. However, Enchanted puts a bit of a spin on the traditional fairy-tale princess story, as only about 10 minutes of the film actually takes place in an animated, fairy-tale land; the majority of the movie takes place in real-life New York City, pitting a dainty, medieval-period princess in a sea of taxi cabs and apartment buildings.

Screenwriter Bill Kelly, who helped create the film Premonition starring Sandra Bullock, originally penned the script, albeit a racier one, to Disney's Touchstone Pictures; the label later forced Kelly to rewrite a new draft that was more G-Rated, this time with the help of newly appointed in-house director, Kevin Lima. Initially, Disney had considered Reese Witherspoon and Kate Hudson for the role of Giselle; however, Amy Adams, far from being a box office name, impressed the producers during the auditions, and promptly landed the role of the dazed princess.