Other news from the movie section of D23…
First up, Dwayne Johnson’s Jungle Cruise has new artwork:
How about Emma Stone as Cruella DeVil in the new live-action Cruella. The film, also starring Emma Thompson, Paul Walter Hauser, and Joel Fry, comes to theaters May 28, 2021.
Jon Batiste is writing original jazz songs for Soul, Pixar’s next big adventure, while Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are doing the score!
Jamie Foxx will star as Joe, a middle school band teacher with ambitions of being a jazz artist who dies and finds himself in an otherworldly workshop where souls are given personality traits before getting bodies. Joining Foxx is Tina Fey as a character named 22 who is described as “a new soul with a loathing for earth”.
A new still was released from Pixar’s Onward starring MCU stars – well, one of them – Tom Holland and Chris Pratt:
And a poster:
Now, on to everyone’s favourite yellow family:
The Simpsons executive producer Al Jean has teased that they “have talked about” a potential second movie and, yes, a spinoff series.
It has been revealed that new animated movie Raya and the Last Dragon inspired by a Southeast Asia-inspired fantasy adventure will arrive on Thanksgiving 2020 and is written by Adele Lim (Crazy Rich Asians) and directed by Paul Briggs ad Dean Wellins. Raya is played by Cassie Steele, while Sisu the Dragon is voiced by Awkwafina.
Just Announced: Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon, starring @cassandrasteele (Raya) and @Awkwafina (Sisu, the Last Dragon). Check out all-new concept art, and see the film in theaters November 2020. #D23Expo pic.twitter.com/QX8BRZkmG8
— Disney Animation (@DisneyAnimation) August 24, 2019
On Frozen 2’s plot we learned it will explore the big question: “Why does Elsa have powers?” say writers Lee and Buck.
It will also explore why Anna does not have powers and where were their parents going when the ship went down. And is there really such a thing as happily ever after?
Oh, here’s a poster and a couple of images:
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