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Dan Frey

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Writing

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5 titles

A novelist, as well as a screenwriter, Frey is coming off the sale earlier this year of his feature spec Doppelganger, which was set up at Skydance with Ryan Coogler producing and Aneesh Chaganty directing. He also recently sold the original TV project Channel to CBS, with Lis Rowinski producing. Frey has worked extensively in both television (Magic: The Gathering at Netflix, pilots for Fox, Onyx and HBO Max) and film (Descendants: The Rise of Red and its forthcoming sequel at Disney+). He is the author of three novels, including tech thriller The Future Is Yours and contemporary fantasy Dreambound.

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6.7

After the Queen of Hearts incites a coup on Auradon, her rebellious daughter Red and Cinderella's perfectionist daughter Chloe join forces and travel back in time to try to undo the traumatic event that set Red's mother down her villainous path.

Descendants: The Rise of Red

2024

7.5

Now that the Queen of Hearts is nice and Cinderella is safe, things seem perfect for Red and Chloe… But little do they know that changing the past created a new villain — Maddox Hatter. When Maddox captures the Queen of Hearts, Red and Chloe must work alongside Red’s new sister Pink, Luisa Madrigal’s son Luis, and Maddox’s son Max to save her and Wonderland.

Descendants: Wicked Wonderland

2026

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Based on the forthcoming novel of the same name, The Arcane Arts is described by sources as a dark academia erotic thriller with a fantasy twist. The story is set in the hallowed halls of an elite university, where a driven graduate student and her charismatic professor secretly pursue a forbidden branch of magic. Their clandestine research ignites a dangerous passion between them that could unravel each of their darkest secrets.