First Trailer for Pixar's New Animated Film SOUL with Jaime Foxx and Tina Fey
Disney has released the first trailer for Pixar’s latest animated film project, Soul, which stars Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey. This looks like it’s going to be another great movie from Pixar, and it tells a wonderful, thought-provoking story that seems geared more towards adults.
It’s actually kind of a super sad concept about a guy who worked hard his whole to live his dream of being a jazz musician. Then when the opportunity to live that dream introduces itself… he dies.
Soul was directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Kemp Powers, and produced by Dana Murray. We shared a lot of information about the film in an article that we previously posted, but the following information was shared with us by Disney.
According to Docter, the idea for the story is 23 years in the making. “It started with my son—he’s 23 now—but the instant he was born, he already had a personality. Where did that come from? I thought your personality developed through your interaction with the world. And yet, it was pretty clear that we’re all born with a very unique, specific sense of who we are.”
“Soul” introduces Joe Gardner, a middle-school band teacher whose true passion is playing jazz. “I think Joe is having that crisis that all artists have,” says Powers. “He’s increasingly feeling like his lifelong dream of being a jazz musician is not going to pan out and he’s asking himself ‘Why am I here? What am I meant to be doing?’ Joe personifies those questions.”
In the film, just when Joe thinks his dream might be in reach, a single unexpected step sends him to a fantastical place where he’s is forced to think again about what it truly means to have soul. That’s where he meets and ultimately teams up with 22, a soul who doesn’t think life on Earth is all it’s cracked up to be. Jamie Foxx lends his voice to Joe, while Tina Fey voices 22. “The comedy comes naturally,” says Murray. “But the subtle emotion that reveals the truth to the characters is really something special.”
Disney and Pixar’s Soul opens in theaters on June 19th, 2020, and I’ll definitely be watching it.