The family-friendly adventure narrative “Strange World” is the latest animated feature film from Disney.
The film is a Jules Verne-like adventure to, you got it, a weird, new realm, tinged in shades of pink and home to unusual, unearthly animals. It is directed by Don Hall and written and co-directed by Qui Nguyen.
It’s also a movie about dads and sons, as Hall and Nguyen noted at a press day presentation that Insider attended. Three generations of the Clade family are the subject of “Strange World,” from the heroic explorer Jaeger Clade to his farmer son Searcher and adolescent Ethan.
Disney unveiled the first trailer for “Strange World” on Wednesday. The video is below.
A family narrative and an adventure coexist in “Strange World.”
The metropolis of Avalonia, where “Strange World” is set, has been completely transformed by the discovery of the amazing, technology-improving plant Pando. Farmer Searcher Clade (Jake Gyllenhaal), the guy who found the plant, must go on a mission to revive it when something begins to go wrong with it.
In the end, Searcher’s venture into the titular Strange World involves his family, including his wife Meridian (Gabrielle Union) and their kid Ethan (Jaboukie Young-White).
When making the movie, Hall and Nguyen claimed to have drawn inspiration from their own fatherly experiences as well as other sources.
Disney animation is nothing new to Hall and Nguyen; Hall helmed “Big Hero 6” and “Raya and the Last Dragon,” and Nguyen also contributed to its writing.
Nguyen said at the press day, “Don and I are both parents and sons so, you know, it’s a fantastic father-son tale in the end. Although it’s a wonderful experience, it’s really a love letter to our fathers and to our children.
Jules Verne’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth” and the Indiana Jones movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark” are just a few of the works that Hall claims the movie was influenced by.
A vivid and distinctive new universe is shown in “Strange World.”
The new planet, which is populated with strange species and is mostly coloured in a luscious magenta colour palette, is seen in the movie’s trailers. These creatures vary from fearsome predators with tentacles to swarms of blobby, manta-ray-like creatures soaring through the air.
According to production designer Mehrdad Isvandi, the team aimed to make the Strange World in the movie as different from actual world as possible, taking influence from everything from coral reefs to sausages.
Gabrielle Union, Lucy Liu, and Jake Gyllenhaal are among the illustrious voice actors.
Gyllenhaal plays the Searcher Clade in his first-ever Disney animated picture, “Strange World.” The other members of Searcher’s immediate family are Gabrielle Union and Jaboukie Young-White, while Dennis Quaid portrays his father. Callisto Mal, the ruler of Avalonia, is portrayed by Lucy Liu.
The cast’s adept improvisation, according to Hall and Nguyen, made it difficult to decide which shots to utilise.
Especially with Jaboukie and Gabrielle, who have comic backgrounds, when they improv, it’s absolutely gold, but it also makes our work extremely tough, according to Nguyen. Because much if you want to include every joke, you can’t.
The movie also includes Splat, a Strange World figure who is certain to become popular with viewers.
Once they get at the Strange World, the party runs upon a blob-like monster called Splat.
Splat is amorphous and blue, and because to its many limbs, it can move in a variety of ways, including by spinning around in a manner akin to a cartwheel, skittering around on all of them, and walking erect in a humanoid manner.
The film’s music was written by Henry Jackman.
After collaborating on “Winnie the Pooh” and “Big Hero 6,” this is Jackman and Hall’s third project together. The “Strange World” music by Jackman, according to Hall, “evokes everything you want with an action-adventure picture.”