{"id":46010,"date":"2022-11-21T17:35:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T22:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=46010"},"modified":"2022-11-21T17:35:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T22:35:15","slug":"brandy-and-rita-ora-join-the-disney-original-movie-the-pocketwatch-the-newest-installment-in-the-descendants-megahit-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/21\/brandy-and-rita-ora-join-the-disney-original-movie-the-pocketwatch-the-newest-installment-in-the-descendants-megahit-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandy and Rita Ora Join the Disney+ Original Movie &#8220;The Pocketwatch,&#8221; The Newest Installment in the &#8220;Descendants&#8221; Megahit Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26702\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Disney-Plus-logo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Disney-Plus-logo2.jpg 563w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Disney-Plus-logo2-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/>Today, Disney+ announced that talented multi-hyphenate performers Brandy and Rita Ora will journey to the fantastical kingdom of Auradon in &#8220;<strong><em>The Pocketwatch<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; (working title), the latest installment in the music-driven megahit &#8220;<strong><em>Descendants<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; franchise from Disney Branded Television. Brandy will return to the role of Cinderella, which she first played in Walt Disney Television&#8217;s iconic 1997 version of &#8220;<em>Rogers and Hammerstein&#8217;s Cinderella<\/em>.&#8221; Ora, who starred in &#8220;<em>Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight<\/em>&#8221; series and was most recently cast alongside Jamie Foxx and Robert De Niro in the upcoming &#8220;<em>Tin Soldier<\/em>,&#8221; will portray the villainous Queen of Hearts of &#8220;<em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>&#8221; fame.<\/p>\n<p>Ora and Brandy join previously announced cast members China Anne McClain (Disney&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Descendants 2<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Descendants 3<\/em>&#8220;), Kylie Cantrall (Disney&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Gabby Duran and the Unsittables<\/em>&#8220;) and Dara Rene\u00e9 (Disney&#8217;s &#8220;<em>High School Musical: The Musical: the Series<\/em>&#8220;).<\/p><div id=\"morty-4195161175\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Also being added to the talented cast are Malia Baker (&#8220;<em>The Babysitter&#8217;s Club<\/em>&#8220;), Ruby Rose Turner (Disney&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Coop and Cami Ask the World<\/em>&#8220;), Morgan Dudley (&#8220;<em>Jagged Little Pill<\/em>&#8221; on Broadway) and Joshua Colley (&#8220;<em>Senior Year<\/em>&#8220;). In addition, fan-favorite Melanie Paxson (&#8220;<em>Dealbreakers<\/em>&#8220;) will reprise her role as Fairy Godmother from the previous &#8220;<em>Descendants<\/em>&#8221; movies.<\/p>\n<h3>Cast:<\/h3>\n<p>\u00b7 Brandy as &#8220;Cinderella,&#8221; the classic Disney character, who is elegant, warm, good-hearted, and diplomatic.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Rita Ora as the withholding, tyrannical &#8220;Queen of Hearts,&#8221; who rules over the kingdom of Wonderland with an iron fist.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Kylie Cantrall as &#8220;Red,&#8221; the rebellious 16-year-old daughter of the Queen of Hearts. Red knows she&#8217;ll never get the Queen&#8217;s approval, so she finds ways to provoke her mother and stir up trouble.<\/p><div id=\"morty-4109209552\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00b7 Malia Baker as &#8220;Chloe,&#8221; the cheerful 16-year-old daughter of Cinderella and Prince Charming, who is book smart and athletic, but her privilege makes her somewhat naive about the real world.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 China Anne McClain returns as &#8220;Uma,&#8221; daughter of the infamous sea-witch Ursula, a role she previously played in &#8220;<em>Descendants 2<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Descendants 3<\/em>.&#8221; Strong and fierce, Uma always fights for what she thinks is right.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Dara Rene\u00e9 as &#8220;Ulyana,&#8221; the younger sister of Ursula. She&#8217;s a teen sea-witch and mean-girl bully with eight wicked tentacles and a crew of lackeys.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Ruby Rose Turner as &#8220;Bridget\/Young Queen of Hearts,&#8221; who is sweet-natured, bubbly, generous, and the complete opposite of her grown-up self.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Morgan Dudley as &#8220;Ella\/Young Cinderella,&#8221; who is blunt, pragmatic, and has a bit of a chip on her shoulder about being forced to work for her wicked stepmother.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Joshua Colley as &#8220;Hook,&#8221; one of Ulyana&#8217;s sycophants, a rich kid with a hoop earring and a shiny hook where his left hand should be. His arrogance is only surpassed by his vanity.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Melanie Paxson returns as &#8220;Fairy Godmother,&#8221; the wise and kind headmistress of Auradon Prep, who appeared in all three &#8220;<em>Descendants<\/em>&#8221; movies.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<em>Descendants<\/em>&#8221; movies unfurled an imaginative mythology of two new lands, idyllic Auradon and the ragtag Isle of the Lost, home to the teenage progeny of Disney&#8217;s most iconic characters and notably, its most notorious villains. The bold new story of &#8220;The Pocketwatch&#8221; returns to these lands and also takes audiences through the rabbit hole to the hostile unincorporated territory of Wonderland, a magical, mysterious place made famous in &#8220;<em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The expansive new story finds polar opposites Red and Chloe crossing paths at a momentous celebration in Auradon when unexpected chaos breaks out. 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