Dennis Quaid, Lucy Liu, and Gabrielle Union Join Jake Gyllenhaal in Disney's STRANGE WORLD Animated Film
Last week the first teaser trailer was released for Disney’s new animated feature film Strange World, which looks incredibly cool! The film is inspired by retro ‘50s sci-fi B movies and pulp sci-fi adventure stories.
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the film and we’ve now learned that he is joined by Dennis Quaid, Lucy Liu, Gabrielle Union, and Jaboukie Young-White. That’s a pretty impressive voice cast!
The movie is directed by Big Hero 6 helmer Don Hall, and it follows “three generations of the Clade family, legendary explorers, who arrive at a dazzling land full of mysterious phenomena – shoals of flying fish, walking rock columns, and octopus-looking monsters, a recent trailer suggests.”
Gyllenhaal plays Searcher Clade, “the son of a steadfast explorer. The original action-adventure journeys deep into an uncharted and treacherous land where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades, a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest—and by far— most crucial mission.”
Quid plays granddad Jaeger Clade; Young-White voices the grandson, Ethan; Union voices Meridian, who is married to son Searcher; and Liu is Callisto Mal, head of Avalonia, the magical setting of the film.
It’s explained that the movie is also inspired by the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Jules Verne, and “the throwback tale will welcome trusty companions and bizarre new creations, featuring non-speaking characters like the family’s three-legged dog, Legend, and the gelatinous blue blob Splat, a strange critter from a strange new world.”
Disney recently screened three scenes from the movie and we have a description of those scenes thanks to Variety:
In the first, Ethan flirts with heartthrob Diazo while friends from school look on, teasing in a friendly and warm-hearted way. Much to Ethan’s chagrin, his dad Searcher soon joins in, embarrassing his son with an overeager show of acceptance.
The second sequence unveiled at Annecy was an action scene. As the whole family explores a cavern from the inside of a lime green aircraft, they are soon attacked by flying fuschia creatures that look like origami stingrays.
The attack ends with the family separated, Searcher and his dog falling off the aircraft and landing in a strange new world, while Ethan and mom steer the ship to safety.
In sequence three, Searcher and the dog explore their new surroundings, the phosphorescent landscape looking like a coral refer painted bright pink.
After meeting Splat, they must fend off a Cthulhu-looking beast, and are finally rescued by a bearded old hunter. When the veteran of this tricky terrain finally takes off his hood, his appearance comes as a shock. “Dad?!!” Searcher exclaims.
Strange World will be released on November 23rd, 2022. Are you excited about this movie?