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All We Know About Pixar's Next Original Movie, 'Coco'
Disney has had a record-breaking year thanks in part to Finding Dory, which is still currently the top-grossing movie in the U.S. for 2016 (and second place for the rest of the world). You can believe they’re not going to ease up on producing Pixar sequels, and in the next three years we’ll be seeing Cars 3, The Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4.
But they do have one original effort on the docket, a Mexico-set story titled Coco. Thanks to Entertainment Weekly, we finally know what to expect from it. Plus they shared the concept art seen above. Here’s all we know:
What’s Coco about?
Miguel, a 12-year-old boy, is a member of the music-hating Rivera family. They believe music has cursed them, in fact, because Miguel’s great-great-grandfather abandoned the clan to go pursue a career as a performer. But Miguel actually loves music and also wants to become a performer, like his late singing idol, Ernesto De la Cruz. He winds up in the Land of the Dead, meets the souls of his ancestors, teams up with a trickster named Hector in his search for De la Cruz and eventually becomes a singer himself.
So it’s Pixar’s first musical feature?
That’s been the suggestion in the past, but EW calls it a “music-packed-but-not-quite-‘musical’ film.”
Who will be voicing those main characters?
As Miguel, the studio found newcomer Anthony Gonzalez, who does all his own singing. Benjamin Bratt (Doctor Strange) voices the famed crooner, De La Cruz, Gael Garcia Bernal (The Science of Sleep) is supplying the comic relief as Hector and Renee Victor (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) is Miguel’s grandmother, Abuelita. And in addition to those four, there will be an all-Latino cast, as was important to the filmmakers.
Who are those filmmakers again?
Lee Unkrich, who co-directed Finding Nemo, Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc. and won an Oscar for his solo helming of Toy Story 3, is the main man behind the digital camera. He’s joined by co-director Adrian Molina, who also wrote the screenplay. The animated feature is being produced by Darla K. Anderson, whose other credits with the studio include Toy Story 3 and the first Cars.
When does it come out?
Disney will release Coco on November 22, 2017, and should dominate the Thanksgiving holiday weekend just as Moana did this year.
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