During their presentation in August 2025, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ chief creative officer, Jared Bush, revealed on stage that their next movie is titled HEXED. Ten months later, Fawn Veerasunthorn, Jason Hand and Josie Trinidad‘s feature film finally has its first trailer.
HEXED will follow the story will follow a spontaneous and quirky teenage girl named Billie (Hailee Steinfield). Alongside Billie on this journey will be her mother, Alice (Rashida Jones) and already a great start to the typical family dynamic in an animated Disney film.
Things in Billie’s seemingly normal life change abruptly when she accidentally discovers her unknown magical abilities. In doing so, she finds herself flung out of her suburban home life and into the mystical realm of Hexe. Here, in the unknown, she finds herself greeted by a Ms Quill (Tracey Ullman) and Elias Quire (Stephen Fry).
The journey Billie is set to follow in HEXED appears to be one filled with spectacle and discovery. Among her travels, she will uncover family history that could change the magical realm of Hexe and the world of witchcraft forever.
Director Fawn Veerasunthorn was quoted as saying that she believes “A wonderfully strange phenomenon is happening all around Billie, something she can’t explain. She’s someone who has felt miscast in her own life, and it takes leaving her normal world behind and entering a hidden world of wild, unhinged magic to begin to understand herself.”
In Veerasunthorn’s words, it only appears as if she truly understands the pain that comes to teenagers and how much it means to finally find oneself in the world. Continuing her words, co-director Jason Hand added, “Hexe is a place where Billie begins to feel seen for the first time in her life. She embarks on a journey of self-discovery that reveals a powerful connection to magic, and in the process uncovers long-held secrets about her family.”
Hexed is in cinemas on November 27th.
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