Some pieces of concept art for Pixar’s Coco (x)
New teaser poster for Pixar’s Coco. Teaser trailer coming next week.
First still from Pixar’s Coco revealed by Entertainment Weekly
Concept art, plot details and cast for Pixar’s Coco revealed
Benjamin Bratt and Gael García Bernal will lead Coco alongside newcomer Anthony Gonzalez, who will voice the film’s main character, a 12-year-old Mexican boy named Miguel. Gonzalez was hired after serving as Miguel’s scratch voice during early development, proving himself indispensable to both the filmmakers and the character. Character actress Renée Victor also joins the cast as Abuelita, Miguel’s grandmother.
Coco follows the secret musical ambitions of Miguel, who resides in a lively, loud Mexican village but comes from a family of shoemakers that may be the town’s only music-hating household. For generations, the Riveras have banned music because they believe they’ve been cursed by it; as their family history goes, Miguel’s great-great-grandfather abandoned his wife decades earlier to follow his own dreams of performing, leaving Imelda (Miguel’s great-great-grandmother) to take control as the matriarch of the now-thriving Rivera line and declare music dead to the family forever.
But Miguel harbors a secret desire to seize his musical moment, inspired by his favorite singer of all time, the late Ernesto de la Cruz (Bratt). It’s only after Miguel discovers an amazing link between himself and De la Cruz that he takes action to emulate the famous singer and, in doing so, accidentally enters the Land of the Dead.
In the beautiful underworld, it’s not long until Miguel encounters the souls of his own family — generations’ worth of long-dead but no less vivacious Rivera ancestors, including great-grandmother Imelda. Still, given the opportunity to roam around the Land of the Dead, Miguel decides to track down De la Cruz himself. He teams up with another friendly (and skeletal) spirit — a trickster named Hector, voiced by Bernal — to find De la Cruz, earn his family’s blessing to perform, and return to the Land of the Living before time runs out.
“It was important to us from day one that we had an all-Latino cast,” says director Lee Unkrich, who with producer Darla K. Anderson shepherded Toy Story 3 to become the world’s second highest-grossing animated film. “It focused us, and we ended up with a fantastic mix of people — some from Mexico and some from Los Angeles.”
Pixar’s Coco is to be released on November 22, 2017.
(Source: Entertainment Weekly)
One Year for Pixar’s Coco: Everything we know about the movie so far
- Coco follows a 12-year-old boy named Miguel who sets off a chain of events relating to a century-old mystery. The official story description is: “Coco is the celebration of a lifetime, where the discovery of a generations-old mystery leads to a most extraordinary and surprising family reunion.”
- Pixar officially started animation on film on April 12, 2016
- The Pixar team made several trips to Mexico to help define the characters and story of Coco.
- Director Lee Unkrich said, "I'd seen it portrayed in folk art. It was something about the juxtaposition of skeletons with bright, festive colors that captured my imagination. It has led me down a winding path of discovery. And the more I learn about Día de los Muertos, the more it affects me deeply."
- Darla K. Anderson is producing the movie. She also produced A Bug’s Life, Monsters Inc., Cars and Toy Story 3.
- The movie was first anounced on April 25, 2012, by Lee Unkrich.
- Benjamin Bratt is to voice a character in the film.
- Description of the clip shown during 2015's D23 Expo, by Slashfilm: A character lights a candle in a cemetery, as fireworks go off in the sky. An old woman drops flower pedals as she limps toward a colorfully decorated grave. Cut to colorfully dressed skeletons dancing and playing music in a long, store-lined alley way. The skeletons detach their heads and legs during the course of the dance. A mariachi band is playing. A boy drops his skull mask and the music stops for a second. Then the music resumes, and as fireworks go off, we see an aerial view revealing that the block is shaped like a skull.
(Adapted from: Pixar Post, Wikipedia)
Coco’s director, Lee Unkrich, confirms animation has officially started on the movie
Coco is about a spirited 12-year-old Mexican boy named Miguel, who lives with a big family in rural Mexico and discovers a generational mystery revolving around Día de los Muertos that will change his life. Pixar's Coco opens in theaters November 22, 2017