The guys who gave us stories of Woody and Buzz Lightyear are gearing up for an exciting line-up of features for the big screen in the coming years and AnimationXpress.com is listing down the ones that everyone is waiting for.
The Good Dinosaur
An emotional story revolving around two ‘different yet similar friends’, Arlo a dinosaur and Spot, a boy on their journey of self-discovery and friendship is what The Good Dinosaur will portray to the audiences. The movie that is directed by Peter Sohn shall come across your nearest theatres on 25 November this year. At the D23 expo, a few extended glimpses into the unlikely but very special friendship storyline were showcased.
Here’s what we learned about The Good Dinosaur. The film introduces audiences to Arlo, a sheltered Apatosaurus who finds himself far from home, and Spot, Arlo’s human friend. The story is of a role reversal, what that means? Well you will have to find that out for yourself come 25 November.
Finding Dory
Remember dory… the cute chirpy amnesiac blue fish?! Disney this time has finally come up with an entire movie just revolving around her life in ‘Finding Dory’. This shall be a sequel to the superhit flick, ‘Finding Nemo’.
The movie shall see the overly-optimistic Dory reunite with Nemo and Marlin (voice by Albert Brooks), on a search for answers about her past and where her parents are. Ultimately, it is a journey for Dory to learn to accept herself and her flaws. The original dealt with an emotionally open-ended issue revolving around where Dory’s family was, made every viewer wonder if she could ever get to reunite with her folks considering her short-term memory loss.
Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy will be the voices of Dory’s parents. The movie shall be directed by Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E), and co-directed by Angus MacLane (Toy Story of Terror) and produced by Lindsey Collins (Wall-E). Dory’s search for her family allowed the filmmakers the opportunity to travel to very different locations, on land and sea, and to bring a variety of new sea creatures that expand her world, including Hank, a cantankerous octopus (voiced by Ed O’Neill), Bailey, a misguided beluga whale (voiced by Ty Burrell) and Destiny, a kind-hearted whale shark (voiced by Kaitlin Olson). The movie shall hit theatres on 17 June 2016.
Toy Story 4
The fourth part of the forever loved Toy Story is set to take the viewers on a romantic journey of the cow boy Woody and the pretty and elegant Bo Beep.
The toy story initially had shown faint hints of a romantic angle between Woody and Bo peep. But this time, Pixar and Disney are all set to dedicate an entire movie revolving around their fondness.
Flashback to Toy Story 2, where the porcelain Shepherdess had been sold to someone else in a garage sale, but in Toy Story 3 she had a cameo to play during one of the flashback shots. This time, the fourth instalment of the Toy Story series shall see the spindly Woody and the ‘Infinity and Beyond’, buzz lightyear on a searching spree for the lady in pink.
The search starts on 16 June, 2017 at theatres near you.
Coco
This new film is directed by long-time Pixar stalwart (and Toy Story 3 filmmaker) Lee Unkrich and produced by Darla Anderson revolves around spirited 12-year-old boy named Miguel, who somehow finds himself in the fantastical realm of dead.
This is Pixar’s new animated feature centres on the Mexican celebration of Dia de los Muertos which is celebrated in Mexico to remember the people who have passed away and pray for their smooth spiritual journey. This event is a three day event starting from 31 October to 2 November.
The Incredibles 2
For all the fans out there who were desperately waiting to catch the ‘incredible’ family on the silver screen, you guys can sigh of relief as your wish has finally been fulfilled.
‘The Incredibles’ that released back in 2004 featured one of the best superhero teams in the animated world whose characters still are very well remembered by all even after 11 years of its initial release. The recent updates have added some light on the elaborated information about the sequel.
This time the story shall be set 11 years after the first part and will see the kids becoming the next superheroes while youngest son of the family Jack-Jack as one of the main villains of the movie. The most adored family is all set to give away some more amusing and jaw dropping moments in 2017 or 2018.
Cars 3
Wroom! Wroom!
Yeah you got it right, Pixar is all set to ‘drive you crazy’ with the third part of Cars. The voice actor in 2013 had told that the Cars 3 on California’s route 99 while last year at the Tokyo film festival it was revealed by John Lasseter that the film shall also be a tribute to Hayao Miyazaki’s film the castle of Cagliostro in a form of an old Citroen 2CV. Cars 3 follows the first and second Cars films. 2011’s sequel collected more than $559 million worldwide in theaters.
The movie is scheduled for release in the summers of 2018.
Stay tuned for more updates.
