It remains to be seen whether Pixar’s Elemental will enjoy any level of success, but as far as movie premises from them go, it feels rather boilerplate — the kind of premise SNL would come up with to parody a Pixar movie. The one they have coming after this, Elio, feels a bit more original.
Elio is a small child with one eye and an overactive imagination. He also happens to have one of the worst instances of bad timing we’ve ever seen when he phones his NASA scientist mother JUST as she’s receiving confirmation of alien life outside of Earth. When the aliens demand to see our “leader,” that’s when Elio calls, and the ETs assume they’ve been shown Mr. Big. Elio is promptly tractor-beamed into a UFO and blasted into space, as the planet’s unwilling ambassador.
Elio has now joined the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies across the universe. But his membership isn’t free — he will have to prove his worthiness, and perhaps Earth’s worthiness as well, through some unspecified “trial” Disney hasn’t released details about yet.
Elio stars the voices of Yonas Kibreab (Sweet Tooth) as the title character, America Ferrera (Superstore) as his mom, Jameela Jamil (The Good Place) as Ambassador Questa and Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond, 2 Stupid Dogs) as Ambassador Grigon. It’s directed by Adrian Molina, the screenwriter and co-director of Coco (a good sign), and produced by Mary Alice Drumm. The movie arrives in our galaxy March 1, 2024.
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