Ariana Grande and Josh Gad have joined the voice crew for “Oh, the places you will go!” The film is directed by Jon M. Chu, who Grande worked with on the two “Wicked” films and Jill Culton, from a script by Rob Lieber.
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul create original songs for the big screen adjustment of the book, which is an eternal graduation day gift. The film will be produced by Bad Robots JJ Abrams and Gregg Taylor. Warner Bros. Pictures animation will release the film on March 17, 2028, including on IMAX screens.
Grande will then be seen in “Wicked: for Good”, the other half of the Broadway adaptation, which Universal will release this Thanksgiving. She will also start in a new “Meet The Parents” movie, with Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro, also for Universal.
Gad, who is something of a legend in animation, not just for his work as olaf in the “frozen” franchise (with “frozen 3” and “frozen 4” on the way), but he has be a voice in one of the “Ice Age” Movies (“Continental Drift is on the way) and has appeared in Episodes of “American Dad,” Star Wars Rebels, “” Phineas and Ferb, “Bob’s Burgers”, “South Park”, “Solar Opposites” and created and played in “Central Park”, a genial apple TV+ animated musical series.
Grande is represented by CAA, Good World Management, Lede Company and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light. GAD is represented by CAA, Range Media Partners, Imprint and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett & Kole.
