Tangled: Before Ever After is a 2017 American 2D-animated musical fantasy one-hour long television film that premiered on Disney Channel as a Disney Channel Original Movie that serves as a sequel to the 2010 Walt Disney Animation Studios film, Tangled, as well as the pilot for Tangled: The Series. It was directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard. It takes place between the original movie and the short Tangled Ever After.The film centers around Rapunzel's adjustments to the life of a princess, and the mysterious return of her 70-feet of magical, golden hair.