Pixar's Elio (2025)

[Tobias]

Amongst all the various release date changes, Pixar released the trailer for their 1st film of 2024, Elio.



When Disney was announcing various films a while back, this is the one I was intrigued by the most, and that still stands. It looks like a fun sci-fi concept, so I look forward to seeing more of it.

Elio is scheduled to release March 1st, 2024.

 

[Nick]

Elio has been pushed over a year from March 2024 to June 2025.

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[Jake S]

2024 is shaping up to be a tough year for movie theaters.

 

[GA-MBIT]

2024 is shaping up to be a tough year for movie theaters.

Right as Covid was really starting to let up it's impact on the major film releases too. What a shame. I hope local chains can last the drought.

 

[UNIrd]

Considering the past few weeks, I've seen Nightmare Before Christmas 4DX, Taylor Swift x2, Beetlejuice (Dolby), and Britney's Crossroads, they just might have to keep getting creative about what content is coming to theaters next year.

 

[Nick]

tbh, 2024 was a majorly overstuffed year for movies and many were going to fail because of just how many were on the schedule. I think theaters will be fine, it just won’t as the past few.

 

[Tobias]

Elio has been pushed over a year from March 2024 to June 2025.

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Considering I was actually looking forward to this one, it's definitely a bummer. Meanwhile Inside Out 2 is still scheduled for 2024, and that's yet to even put out a trailer. In ways, I can understand why they wanna' keep IO2 since the first was such a critical darling, but on the other hand I'm just not as interested in that one.

 

[Nick]

Considering I was actually looking forward to this one, it's definitely a bummer. Meanwhile Inside Out 2 is still scheduled for 2024, and that's yet to even put out a trailer. In ways, I can understand why they wanna' keep IO2 since the first was such a critical darling, but on the other hand I'm just not as interested in that one.

It seems Pixar wants to move to one film per year with a June release.

 

[TheGentTrent]

It seems Pixar wants to move to one film per year with a June release.

Which is oddly the way it should be.

Seriously, every time Pixar put out two films in one year, one of them was considered mediocre and the other is considered amazing.

 

[Nick]

Which is oddly the way it should be.

Seriously, every time Pixar put out two films in one year, one of them was considered mediocre and the other is considered amazing.

Yeah, I hope this is a more permanent move and quality control can be restored at Pixar. It certainly can’t hurt for the films to not be rushed so there’s two per year.

 

[Nick]

 

[Tobias]

And the film did undergo a few changes in both director(s) and casting. Zoe Saldana is replacing America Ferrera who stepped down due to scheduling conflicts, and the character of Olga is being rewritten to be Elio's Aunt instead of his Mother.

As for the director changes, Adrian Molina was taken on to a currently undisclosed priority project, and he worked with Pete Doctor to find a suitable replacement to take the reigns, and they landed on both "Turning Red"s Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian who directed the "Burrows" short, making this her first theatrical length directorial debut.

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From the sounds of things, the changes have been going pretty smoothly due to the circumstances which are pretty natural in the industry. (And not due to sheer drama/chaos.)

 

[TheGentTrent]

And the film did undergo a few changes in both director(s) and casting. Zoe Saldana is replacing America Ferrera who stepped down due to scheduling conflicts, and the character of Olga is being rewritten to be Elio's Aunt instead of his Mother.

As for the director changes, Adrian Molina was taken on to a currently undisclosed priority project, and he worked with Pete Doctor to find a suitable replacement to take the reigns, and they landed on both "Turning Red"s Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian who directed the "Burrows" short, making this her first theatrical length directorial debut.

Pixar Chief Pete Docter Talks New 'Elio' Directors, Story and Casting Changes | Exclusive

Pixar's chief creative officer Pete Docter explains why new sci-fi film "Elio" has new directors, what changed in the story and how Zoe Saldaña got added to the cast.

www.thewrap.com

From the sounds of things, the changes have been going pretty smoothly due to the circumstances which are pretty natural in the industry. (And not due to sheer drama/chaos.)

I don’t know. The last time a Pixar film went through this many changes behind the scenes, it was The Good Dinosaur and we all know how that turned out.

 

[Tobias]

I don’t know. The last time a Pixar film went through this many changes behind the scenes, it was The Good Dinosaur and we all know how that turned out.

The circumstances between the films changes are really not the same. Elio's was more natural and mutual since directors getting called to other projects and actors having schedule conflicts happen. Elio's original director was able to pick who would take the reins.

The Good Dinosaur on the other hand, that film had a slew of problems and the changes were not mutual. The original director was pretty much removed because he couldn't figure out the 3rd act of the film's story. And the issues with the story led to the film pretty much getting dismantled and rebuilt which removed characters, changed them etc. And that led to pretty much nearly the entire cast being recast. It was a total mess which still showed on screen.

When you look at the changes in both films, a mutual director change and one V.A. change is very minimal compared to everything that got flipped and overhauled in The Good Dinosaur.

 

[PerceptiveCoot]

When you look at the changes in both films, a mutual director change and one V.A. change is very minimal compared to everything that got flipped and overhauled in The Good Dinosaur.

The sense I always got from the original Good Dinosaur ( I saw about ten minutes of footage at D23 2013 ) was that Bob Peterson was trying to make a film that was much more cebebral and elegaic than the typical Pixar film, almost something like The Black Stallion, The Straight Story, or the Journey of Natty Gann. They've always maintained that they switched directors because they couldn't find the film's story, but it always seemed to be a case where Pixar's dogmatic insistence on certain "principles" of storytelling ran into conflict with the more experiential and contemplative nature of the film that was initially made.

EDIT: I really hope they didn't destroy the 2/3rds of that film that were initially made.

 

[saint.piss]

 

[DrStarlander]

When the people at Pixar noticed everybody they were having meetings with were pronouncing the name of the movie differently ("Eee-lee-oh" and "El-ee-oh") did they not consider changing the name? It's difficult enough to market a brand new IP/movie, seems like an unnecessary self-inflicted hurdle.

 

[Jerroddragon]

Disney/Pixar need to find a way to make these cheaper

Like When Bad Guys, Gabbys Doll house and Doogy man cost around the same as one Disney movie I feel like this is why Pixar and Disney animation are struggling

I'll see this because I have AMC a-list...but feel like its going to have a tough time making its money back