The New Trailer for Pixar’s Elio Dials Up the Nostalgic Vibes

Pixar’s adjacent movie is called Elio, and we’ve been proceeding astir it for truthful long, you whitethorn person assumed it already came out. Well, it hasn’t, and a caller trailer was conscionable released timed to this month’s large household films and the vibe has decidedly changed.

First announced at D23 Expo backmost successful 2022, Elio follows a young lad who wants to beryllium abducted by aliens. However, erstwhile his dreams travel true, the aliens mistake him for the person of the satellite and present this young kid has to prevention everyone successful the world. It’s a amusive conception that leaves country for a ton of weird, wacky alien worldly which was the absorption of the archetypal trailer that came retired implicit a twelvemonth ago. In this caller trailer though, things absorption much connected the Earth side, turning up the nostalgia.

Actor Yonas Kibreab voices Elio, and he’s joined by Zoe Saldaña arsenic Aunt Olga, Remy Edgerly arsenic Glordon, Brad Garrett arsenic Lord Grigon, Jameela Jamil arsenic Ambassador Questa and Shirley Henderson arsenic OOOOO. Great names by the way. It has 3 directors – a definite motion of the film’s struggles – and they are Madeline Sharafian (Burrow), Domee Shi (Bao, Turning Red) and Adrian Molina (Coco).

Originally scheduled for merchandise successful March 2024, Elio is present coming connected June 13, 2025. That’s par for the people connected immoderate Pixar movies and, hopefully, the other twelvemonth and a fractional means that Elio has evolved into the awesome movie it could perchance be. Pixar raised the barroom again with Inside Out 2 this twelvemonth and with a batch of sequels coming from them implicit the adjacent fewer years (Toy Story 5, Incredibles 3, etc.) we’d emotion to spot a caller prima look from the animation giant.

And portion this trailer surely has immoderate of those wild, colorful aliens, the Earth worldly hits differently. You get big-time 1980s vibes from seeing a kid going up to space, unsure what they’re going to encounter. It reminds maine of Explorers, The Last Starfighter, E.T., that benignant of stuff.

Elio hits theaters connected June 13. Let america cognize what you deliberation of the caller trailer below.

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