Pixar big-up John Lasseter was at the D23 Expo on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, and he finally gave some info on their next film, “The Good Dinosaur.” It is set to hit theaters on May 30, 2014, but nothing was known at all about it…until now.
Lasseter came out on stage and wanted the audience to think, “What if that asteroid had missed earth?”
That is what “The Good Dinosaur” is about because it is to make us all wonder what if the dinosaurs had not gone extinct? The asteroid flies over, the dinosaurs watch it go by, and then go about their business.
“The modern dinosaurs are farmers,” Sohn said. “We actually designed them to function as their own farm equipment.”
Triceratops are bulldozers, the stegosauruses “have spiky tails that mow down acres of crops,” and the Apatosaurus uses its long neck and tough bill to plow and plant the fields.
While working the field one day, Arlo discovers a large beetle rustling around the ground, but there’s something strange about it. It’s actually a human toddler, in disguise. He’s a grunting, savage little boy named Spot — who can’t talk like the dinosaurs around him.
The voice cast is quite stellar and will consist of:
- Arlo – Lucas Neff
- Poppa – John Lithgow
- Momma – Frances McDormand
- Forrest – Bill Hader
- Cliff – Neil Patrick Harris
- Ivy – Judy Greer
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