Disney's Frozen 2 sees Elsa searching for who she really is as she follows a mysterious voice. In Disney+'s Into the Unknown: Making of Frozen 2 co-director Jennifer Lee confirms the voice is Elsa's mother Iduna (Evan Rachel Wood) who she sees as she reaches Ahtohallan in the ice.
According to Iduna's notes, Ahtohallan is the source of the magic in the Enchanted Forest as well as those of the spirits, including Elsa's powers. It can be assumed that Ahtohallan has a form of sentience as it called Elsa to it so that she could become the fifth spirit and discover the truth about the past.
The call led her to Ahtohallan, where Elsa was able to discover her true calling and the truth about the curse placed on the Enchanted Forest. Elsa discovered that the call was used by Iduna to summon the Wind Spirit to save Agnarr.
That's the sound you get when you put a hydrophone under a frozen lake and when the sun starts melting the ice it causes a crack and this resonant ping. So for each Nokk footstep on the ice, we have that “resonant ice ping” in there. It was a sound the filmmakers wanted to get just right and I think we nailed it.
AURORA - Frozen 2 - "INTO THE UNKNOWN" (Behind The Scenes Recording)
Will there be a Frozen 3?
On February 8, 2023, Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that Frozen 3 is in the works, along with Toy Story 5 and Zootopia 2. While news of a third Frozen film was a welcome one, we have yet to hear more details about the movie or see a trailer. Here's everything we know about Frozen 3.
Elsa awoke the spirits after she created hundreds of ice runes all over Arendale at the finale of her 'Into the Unknown' performance. She did this unwillingly and obviously without previous training, invoking the Spirits and triggering their anger.
Anna's parents rush her to the sacred realm, where discussions with the trolls reveal that Elsa was born with her powers/ depigmentation and deafness, rather than them being due to illness or accident. Grand Pabbie troll heals Anna but removes her memories of Elsa's magic.
Eva Bella and Spencer Ganus were cast to portray Elsa as a young child and as a teenager, respectively. Actress and singer Megan Mullally was originally cast to voice an adult Elsa, but was replaced by Idina Menzel.
Say the names quickly in sequence to hear the similarity. According to Jennifer Lee, Anna is 18 years old in the film, while both Elsa and Kristoff are 21 years old and Hans is 23 years old.
The implication, and it's only ever just that, is that Elsa and Anna's mother is herself somehow attuned to the magical forces such that Elsa was given the gift of superpowers. (Why Anna never received such powers is equally vaguely defined: just as Elsa and Anna's father had no powers, so too would she be power-free.
It was after that the decision was made to fully commit to the voice calling to Elsa being that of her mother, Iduna. As Marc Smith, Frozen 2's Director of Story, notes in the documentary, the idea "unifies the movie" since it starts with a flashback featuring Iduna and Agnarr, and it brings those elements together.
Elsa from Frozen was originally intended to be an evil queen with an army of snow monsters. That's according to the animated film's producer Peter Del Vecho, who says they completely re-wrote the ending. "When we started off, Anna and Elsa were not sisters," he told EW. "They weren't even royal.
Why didn't Elsa's mom tell her husband she saved him?
Due to the bad blood between their people, Iduna kept both her heritage and her rescue of Agnarr in the forest a secret for many years, though she finally confessed everything to him shortly before their deaths.
Frozen II occurred after a 3-year time jump, with Elsa now 24 and Anna 21. The Frozen movies seem to be one of the few animated Disney franchises to consider 21 an ideal age to rule.
Anna is the youngest child in the royal family of Arendelle, whose older sister, Elsa was born with the power to create and control ice and snow. Despite this, the sisters become best friends and frequently use Elsa's abilities for their enjoyment.
“Elsa: Princess who becomes Queen; fearfully plagued by powers she hasn't yet learned to control; lives a life of isolation separated from society and those she loves, including her sister. Vocal Range: Mezzo Soprano; mix/belt.”
Although Elsa's disability is encoded as a magical ice power, the language the film uses to talk about her condition maps on to the experiences of people with physical, mental, and intellectual disabilities in recognizable ways.
How old is Elsa in Frozen 1 when her parents died?
Jennifer Lee, CCO of Walt Disney Animation Studios and co-director of both Frozen and Frozen 2, confirmed on Twitter that, for the main part of Frozen's story, Anna is 18 and Elsa is 21. This means that Anna was 15 and Elsa was 18 when their parents, Iduna and Agnarr, died.
Olaf appears in the sequel Frozen II, where he no longer needs a permanent snow flurry, as he is now made of permafrost, and enjoys being able to freely bask in the sun year-round. Now three years old, Olaf is slightly more intelligent and mature.
The directors also confirmed that, despite becoming the fifth spirit, Elsa is still human and therefore mortal. It is unknown if this applies to the other spirits as well. It's possible that Bruni shares this trait with Elsa as they are both organic, unlike the other spirits.
She died and was reborn to take on her true form like has happened in so many stories before. With that transformation, Frozen 2 has made Elsa an immortal spirit now. Like how Frozen 2's other four spirits appear as animals but more than just that, Elsa still appears human but is more than just that.
While Frozen 2 explores the reasons why Elsa herself has magical powers, it doesn't directly address why Anna and her parents have no magical powers to speak of. Since Elsa's powers are a gift from the spirits, Anna's lack of powers may be attributed to the simple fact that she was born second.
