(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 11 - There is talk of "mutual support, people who in our lives have done everything to help us become what we are today, as brothers, sisters, a teacher or parents. This film is a way of thanking them".
Thus the director Dan Scanlon tells the heart of the animated adventure fantasy in Cgi Pixar / Disney "Onward - Beyond the magic", which after the various postponements of the release for the pandemic emergency, arrives in Italian cinemas on August 19 and hopefully will first important driving force to return to the box office, pending the debut, on August 26, of the dystopian thriller Tenet by Christopher Nolan.
A challenge, that of the return of the great films in theaters, from which Disney has stolen another of its dipunta blockbusters, Mulan, which will debut directly on Disney + on 4 September, while for now the debut on the big screen of the other Pixar title is confirmed. , Soul by Pete Docter, out in the US in November. Onward immerses the audience in an 'urban' and contemporary fantasy world that has somewhat forgotten its magic, populated by creatures such as ogres, centaur unicorns, wizards, witches, sorcerers and sprites. The protagonists of the story are two teenage elves, the sixteen-year-old Ian and his older brother, the 'hothead' Barley, who embark on an adventure to complete the spell thanks to which they can have their father, who died years before, back with them for a day. Among the Italian voice actors, Sabrina Ferilli, for the mother of the two elphiprotagonists, Laurel, Fabio Volo (voice of Ian eBarley's father), Favij (a sprite), David Parenzo (a waiter) and Raul Cremona (a sorcerer's apprentice). "Laurel is a mother who spurs, protects and helps her children, taking part in allowing them to create a beautiful spell," says Sabrina Ferilli. Onward is already considered epochal because it includes the first animated LGBT + character in a Pixar / Disney feature film: she is the cyclops policewoman Specter. “We wanted the worlds we created to be realistic and represent all diversity,” explains Scanlon. (HANDLE).
Onward, filial love in Pixar-Disney 'urban' fantasy
2020-08-11T12:52:35.577Z
It speaks of "mutual support, of people who have done everything in our life to help us become who we are today, as brothers, sisters, a teacher or parents. This film is a way to thank them". (HANDLE)
