Zoe Saldaña has joined the solid of Elio.
Elio is a brand new animated Pixar film that’s scheduled to be launched in 2025. Introduced on Friday, August 9, 2024, at D23, Saldaña has now joined the solid of the film and can voice Elio’s Aunt Olga.
“I felt an actual connection to the character and needed to see a illustration of how an actual household works on display. The connection you and I share within the film felt genuine,” Saldaña stated a D23, by way of Selection.
Saldaña is thought for enjoying Gamora within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Neytiri in James Cameron’s Avatar movies, and Nyota Uhura within the current Star Trek films. Her filmography additionally contains 2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2010’s The Losers, 2013’s Out of the Furnace, 2019’s Lacking Hyperlink, and extra.
What’s Pixar’s Elio film about?
“The unique function movie introduces Elio, an underdog with an energetic creativeness who finds himself inadvertently beamed as much as the Communiverse, an interplanetary group with representatives from galaxies far and broad. Mistakenly recognized as Earth’s ambassador to the remainder of the universe, and utterly unprepared for that type of stress, Elio should type new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, survive a sequence of formidable trials and someway uncover who he’s actually meant to be,” the plot description reads.
Elio is directed by Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, and Adrian Molina. Mary Alice Drumm produces the movie.
The voice solid additionally contains Yonas Kibreab as Elio, America Ferrera as Elio’s mom Olga, Jameela Jamil as Ambassador Questa, and Brad Garrett as Ambassador Grigon.
Elio was initially purported to be launched in United States theaters on March 1, 2024; nonetheless, it was delayed in October 2023 throughout the Display Actors Guild-American Federation of Tv and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) strike.
The film will now open in the US on June 13, 2025.