Pixar’s ‘Soul’ Finally Reveals Cast, Including Tina Fey And Jamie

Pixar’s title alone attracts audiences. Over twenty years in they continue to be the gold normal of any Hollywood animation home. Still, they have a tendency to stack their casts with massive names. At this yr’s news-heavy D23 Expo — the place we’ve already seen the Mandalorian trailer, heard that Kit Harington goes Marvel, and discovered that Jeff Goldblum has his personal Disney+ TV present — we additionally discovered this: One of their subsequent movies, Soul, lastly has a voice solid, headlined by Tina Fey and Jamie Foxx.

Helmed by one of many studio’s high skills, Pete Docter — who’s helmed Monsters, Inc., Up, and Inside Out — Soul sounds probably the most just like the latter, although particulars on the plot stay sparse. As per Entertainment Weekly, it would comply with an “unsatisfied middle school band teacher,” voiced by Foxx, who’s lengthy wished to develop into a jazz musician however has by no means had the prospect to essentially pursue his dream. When he abruptly dies, he discovers an sudden after life and hatches a plan with a fellow newly lifeless soul, voiced by Fey, to return him to Earth. The solid may even embody Daveed Diggs, Phylicia Rachad, and Questlove.

At D23, Docter described its ambitions. “I’m directing a film that asks the ultimate question that we’ve all thought about at one time or another: Why am I here? Where did I come from? And what am I here for?” Docter stated. “But who would make a cartoon about that? Metaphysics? We’re calling it Soul.”

Fey’s frequent partner-in-crime, Amy Poehler, in fact, headlined Inside Out for Pixar and Docter. So quickly they’ll have one more factor in widespread. Soul is due June 19, 2020 — a mere few months after one other Pixar authentic, Onward, starring Tom Holland and Chris Pratt.

(Via EW)