Disney has dropped the teaser trailer for Pixar‘s sci-fi comedy, “Elio” (June 13, 2025). It’s a celestial coming-of-age journey with eye-popping intergalactic aliens and phosphorescent-looking environments. It’s about 11-year-old Elio (Yonas Kibreab), a one-eyed, alien-obsessed social misfit, who beams as much as an inter-planetary paradise, the place he will get mistaken as Earth’s chief. He has a blast forming new bonds whereas navigating an intergalactic disaster with out being came upon.
“Elio” is produced by Mary Alice Drumm (affiliate producer of “Coco”) and directed by Madeline Sharafian (the “Burrow” brief) and Domee Shi (“Turning Purple”), who changed Adrian Molina (“Coco” co-director) mid-production.
“Elio” was to mark Molina’s directorial debut and was a private story. However story issues ensued, and the unique launch (March 1, 2024) was delayed till June 13, 2025, partially due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. This marked the primary time that Pete Docter, Pixar’s chief inventive officer, needed to exchange a director throughout his tenure. He instructed The Wrap that Elio required remodeling to offer a larger connection for the viewer and to additional his character arc. He additionally revealed that Sharafian and Shi are co-partners, which breaks with custom at Pixar of getting a co-director. Docter moreover instructed Time that semi-autobiographical tales require a steadiness between the private and the common.
In any occasion, Molina remains to be credited as co-director and has been reassigned to direct an upcoming Pixar characteristic. There was a solid change as properly: America Ferrera, initially solid as Elio’s aunt, was changed by Zoe Saldaña due to a scheduling battle.
The voice solid additionally consists of Remy Edgerly as Glordon, Brad Garrett as Lord Grigon, Jameela Jamil as Ambassador Questa, and Shirley Henderson as OOOOO.