Halle Bailey has teamed up with multi-Oscar-nominated songwriter Diane Warren for a new original song in the upcoming 3D animated family sci-fi adventure “The Crystal Planet.” The track, titled “Somewhere We All Belong,” was announced by Sola Media during the European Film Market in Berlin, where the company is handling international sales.
Warren, who recently earned her 17th Academy Award nomination and received an Honorary Oscar in 2022, wrote the song for the film. Bailey performs the track, which underscores the story’s themes of identity, empathy, and belonging. Director Arsen Anton Ostojic said the collaboration “captures the emotional heart” of the film and adds a universal quality to its message about compassion and coexistence.
“The Crystal Planet” follows 11-year-old Rea, who moves with her father to a distant outer-space colony. There, she befriends a mysterious cub and must protect it from a ruthless industrialist seeking to turn the creature into a robotic prototype. The voice cast includes Jeremy Irons, Vanessa Redgrave, and Michael York. The film is based on an original screenplay by the late Dušan Vukotić, the first non-American to win an Academy Award for animation.
Production is led by Filmosaurus Rex, BFilm, and Alkay Animation Prague, with animation supervised by Jakub Pištecký. The project is backed by several European film bodies, including the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Czech Audiovisual Fund, Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Creative Europe/MEDIA, Eurimages, Czech Television, and Croatian Television.