JT joins Anna Kendrick as lead in animated comedy “Trolls”
Justin Timberlake to Star Opposite Anna Kendrick in DreamWorks Animation's Comedy 'Trolls' The Hollywood Reporter
Justin Timberlake has signed on to voice the lead character in DreamWorks Animation's musical comedy Trolls.
The singer-actor will star as Branch, a hardcore survivalist who hides his surprising true colors. Timberlake will voice the Scandinavian troll opposite Pitch Perfect star Anna Kendrick, who had already boarded the project as Princess Poppy. The two embark on a hair-raising adventure as the globally popular Trolls make their big-screen debut.
20th Century Fox will release the film on Nov. 4, 2016.
The Troll doll phenomenon was born in 1959 when Danish fisherman and woodcutter Thomas Dam, too poor to afford a Christmas present for his young daughter Lajla, carved a doll for her based on the Scandinavian troll myth. This modern-day Geppetto couldn't have imagined that the Troll dolls would soon become one of the biggest toy crazes of the 1960s.
Timberlake, a nine-time Grammy and four-time Emmy Award winner, also is a busy film actor, with such credits as The Social Network and Inside Llewyn Davis.