The first trailer for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Hexed” has arrived, putting Disney’s next original feature on the board ahead of a November 25, 2026, theatrical release. The studio first unveiled the project at Destination D23, where chief creative officer Jared Bush revealed the title, premise, and an animated logo for the film. Disney’s official setup follows an awkward teenage boy and his Type-A mom, who discover that what makes him unusual may actually be magical powers capable of turning their lives—and a secret world of magic—upside down.
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Josie Trinidad and Jason Hand direct the feature, with Roy Conli and Juan Pablo Reyes Lancaster-Jones producing. Early trade coverage identified Trinidad with “Zootopia+” and Hand with “Moana 2,” giving “Hexed” a creative team with recent Disney Animation credits, as the studio lines up another original after a stretch dominated by franchise titles.
Hailee Steinfeld (“Hawkeye”) and Rashida Jones (“Parks & Rec”) lead a voice cast that also features Tracey Ullman (“The Tracey Ullman Show,” “Tracey Takes On…,” “Bullets Over Broadway,” “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”) who voices the enchanted feather quill pen Ms. Quill, and Stephen Fry (“The Interrogator,” “The Hobbit” trilogy, “Gosford Park,” “Jeeves and Wooster,” “V for Vendetta”) as the magical journal Elias Quire.
At the moment, Disney has kept the public details fairly lean, but the premise alone gives the project a strong enough hook: a family story, hidden powers, and a magical realm thrown into upheaval. That is a solid foundation for an original animated feature, and now the trailer finally gives Disney a chance to start selling “Hexed” as more than just a title announced on a convention stage.
For now, the confirmed pieces are the ones that matter most: the title, the mother-and-son fantasy setup, the directors, the producers, and a late-November 2026 release frame that puts “Hexed” squarely in Disney’s holiday corridor. The studio first teased the film with a logo reveal last summer. Now it has an actual trailer and a clearer runway to theaters.
