Walt Disney Animation Studios' Hexed is just over 2 weeks away. Disney Animation told fans to "add a little bit of magic" yesterday as it pointed them to tickets for the PG-rated fantasy, which opens in theaters on Wednesday, November 25. Check out the official post down below:
Disney calls Hexed an all-new magical coming-of-age story. Hailee Steinfeld voices Billie, an impulsive and unconventional teenage girl who discovers secret magical abilities. Those powers launch her out of suburbia and into Hexe, a huge world of witches. Billie is forced to team up with her cautious mother, Alice, voiced by Rashida Jones, and the 2 of them uncover family mysteries that could change the world of witches forever.
The Hexed Voice Cast
Walton Goggins voices Beef Roger Crummchuk, a reclusive, magical 3-eyed cat who forms an uneasy alliance with Billie and Alice. 2-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster plays Queen Celeste, whom Disney describes as a sinister figure who will stop at nothing to keep her power over Hexe forever.
The rest of the main cast includes Tracey Ullman as Ms. Quill, an enchanted feather quill pen, Stephen Fry as Elias Quire, a magical journal, Henry Winkler as Nigel, a skittish, all-knowing potoo bird, and Dan Stevens as Hieronymous, Queen Celeste's Grand Councillor of the Throne. Disney's official cast list also includes Brett Gelman, Samson Kayo, Jimmy O. Yang, Ron Funches, Drew McIntyre, Cheri Oteri, Kathy Najimy, Wayne Knight and Alan Tudyk.
Watch the official trailer for Hexed here:
Who Is Making Hexed
Hexed is directed by Fawn Veerasunthorn and Jason Hand, with Josie Trinidad as co-director. Veerasunthorn directed the 2023 Disney musical Wish with Chris Buck. Hand directed 2024's Moana 2 with David Derrick Jr. and Dana Ledoux Miller, and Miller reunites with him on Hexed as a writer.
Miller wrote the Hexed screenplay with Walt Disney Animation Studios chief creative officer Jared Bush, who also co-wrote Moana 2. Roy Conli and Yvett Merino produced the film, and Kris Bowers wrote the original score.
The project looked different when Bush first announced it at Destination D23 in August 2025. At the time, Hexed was described as the story of an awkward teenage boy and his Type A mother, who discover that the boy's unusual traits may be magical powers. By CinemaCon in April 2026, Disney had shifted the story to Billie and Alice, with Steinfeld and Jones announced as the leads.
Ullman and Fry joined the cast with the release of the first trailer in June, and Foster and Goggins were added in August.
Music And The Short In Front Of Hexed
Steinfeld recorded a cover of "Magic" by The Cars, released through Walt Disney Records on October 23. The Hexed soundtrack, including that cover, arrives on November 20, 5 days before the movie.
Hexed will play in theaters with Lilo & Scratch, a new Lilo & Stitch short that Veerasunthorn co-directed with Malcon Pierce. Set shortly after the 2002 movie, the short has Stitch, voiced by Chris Sanders, battling Scratch, a cat-like alien that Lilo adopts. It is the first Lilo & Stitch project made at Walt Disney Animation Studios since the original film.
Disney has been building up Hexed all year. It showed first-look footage at CinemaCon in Las Vegas in April, scheduled previously unseen footage for the 2026 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, and held panels for the film at D23 on August 14 and Comic-Con Malaga on October 3. Disney Animation also released a short video when tickets went on sale:
Which member of the Hexed cast are you most excited to hear, Jodie Foster's Queen Celeste or Walton Goggins' 3-eyed cat?
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