Disney is returning to the musical world of Stargirl. The mouse company’s live actin film division is bringing back much of the creative team behind the original 2020 film, including star Grace VanderWaal and director Julia Hart, who will this time be joined by actor Elijah Richardson as well as composer-musician Michael Penn, the latter who will write and perform original music for the film.
Last years first entry hit Disney+ on March 13, 2020, adapted the best-selling book by Jerry Spinelli and told of
“a boy living in Mica, Arizona, who wishes nothing more than an anonymous existence but whose life is turned upside down when he meets and falls for an unusual and colorful girl named Stargirl.”
Hart and Jordan Horowitz, who co-wrote the initial adaptation with Kirsten Hahn, have written the original script follows Stargirl’s journey out of Mica and into a bigger world of music, dreams and possibility.
VanderWaal, who will reprise her role as Stargirl, will write and perform original music for this outing with Richard playing the romantic lead. Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Lee Stollman of Gotham Group return as producers while Horowitz will produce for Hart & Horowitz’s company Original Headquarters.
