Pixar tackles high fantasy—with a twist—in new trailer for Onward

Disney has released another trailer for Onward, Pixar’s new movie. Pixar may be the only studio that can drum up a ton of hype for a movie that isn’t even a sequel to anything; such is their track record. Watch below!

Okay, so this movie follows the journey of two teenage brothers (Chris Pratt and Tom Holland, borrowed from nearby Marvel Studios) who live a Tolkien-esque high-fantasy world, only everything has modern trappings. They bring back their dad (‘s legs) with a spell and have to go on a quest to find the rest of him.

I guess “Amy Poehler plays a personification of joy within a prepubescent girl” sounded like a strange idea at first, too. And the movie does look charming. Like I said, Pixar has earned some trust. Onward opens in March of 2020.

Also in cartoons, DC has released a trailer for Superman: Red Son, an animated movie based on a comic of the same name that imagines how things in the DC Universe could have gone different had the baby who would become Superman crash landed in Soviet Russia rather than in Kansas. Check it out:

While Warner Bros. has been struggling to get its live-action DC Universe movies off the ground, these animated movies have been coming out at a regular clip for over a decade. Superman: Red Son will be available early next year.

In live-action news, Netflix just released a trailer for the second season of You, the show that kind of kind of looks like a romantic comedy from a distance, but when you get closer you realize the main dude is a serial killer and everything gets real weird real fast:

You season 2 drops on Netflix on December 26. Merry Christmas.

While we’re on horror…kind of…check out a new teaser for A Quiet Place: Part II. “Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence,” reads the synopsis. “Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.”

And finally, while we don’t have a trailer, Orion Pictures has released a few images from Bill & Ted Face the Music, the long-in-gestation followup to Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991). Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves are back as Bill and Ted respectively.

Image: Bill & Ted Face The Music/Orion Pictures

Middle-aged, the two now have daughters (Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine). And also Kid Cudi is there:

Image: Bill & Ted Face The Music/Orion Pictures

And William Sadler returns as Death:

Image: Bill & Ted Face The Music/Orion Pictures

“The stakes are higher than ever for the time-traveling exploits of William ‘Bill’ S. Preston Esq. and Theodore ‘Ted’ Logan as the now middle aged best friends set out on a new adventure to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony in the universe,” reads the synopsis, “helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends.”

Bill & Ted Face the Music opens on August 21, 2021.

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