Disney-Pixar’s latest offering,Toy Story 4, doesn’t hit theaters until Friday but the animation studio is already looking forward to next year.
On Wednesday, the folks behind big screen hits likeFinding Nemo,The Incredibles,Cars,Ratatouille,A Bug’s Life,The Good DinosaurandCocounexpectedly announced another original animated film coming to theaters on June 19, 2020:Soul.
The movie — which will be the 23rd story in the Pixar cannon released since the Emeryville, California-based CGI film production company launched in 1995 — will take viewers “on a journey from the streets of New York City to the cosmic realms to discover the answers to life’s most important questions,” Pixar wrote in matching posts on Twitter and Instagram.
Along with that description, Pixar also released its first image ofSoul’s title artwork, written in blue font with orange, yellow, and white accents.
Aside from that, details aboutSoulare sparse.
ProducingSoulwill be Dana Murray, another longtime Pixar employee who worked onUp,Inside Out,Cars 3, Brave,and more. In 2018, she was also nominated in the Oscar’s Best Animated Short Film category forLou.
Souldoes mark a Pixar first: It’s the first film in the studio’s history to be set in New York City.
The company has taken on real-life locales before, like Paris (Ratatouille), San Francisco (Inside Out), Scotland (Brave), Australia (Finding Nemo), South America (Up), Mexico (Coco) andeven the Himalayas (Monster’s Inc.).
And though the movie is a long time away, there will be another Pixar offering in the interim.
On March 6, 2020, the studio is droppingOnward— another original film featuring the voices ofChris Pratt, Tom Holland, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Octavia Spencer.
Onward.Disney/Pixar
PEOPLE had the exclusive first look atOnwardback in May.
Set in a fantasy world where mythical creatures have fallen into a life of suburban normalcy, the movie tells the story of two elf brothers (Avengerscostars Pratt and Holland), who “go out on an adventure to see if there’s a little magic left in that world,” director and writer Dan Scanlon explained.
Pratt plays the boisterous older brother and Holland, the gawky, more reserved younger sibling (Louis-Dreyfus is the teenage boys’ mother).
“Tom Holland is perfect for our character of Ian, the younger brother,” Scanlon, who also wrote and directedMonster’s University, said. “We were looking for someone who could have this shy quality and someone who is good at being a little awkward. And Tom is great at that! And yet has a genuine sweetness to him that you really root for him.”
For Pratt’s character, “We wanted someone who was the exact opposite of that,” Scanlon, recalled. “Someone who could be wild and chaotic and out of control, but in a very charming and infectious way. AndChris Prattis perfect for that. He has this ability to be both sort of wild and out of control but in a really lovable, fun, infectious way.”
Scanlon promisedOnwardwill bring the laughs, too, but like its fellowDisney-Pixar films, he expects it will also connect emotionally.
“I absolutely hope that people are laughing their heads off and crying their eyes out,” he shared. “My hope is some of the questions that I’m asking in the film will be questions other people are asking about their own lives. And I think that’s what a lot of the times gets us to connect to a movie.”
source: people.com
