It was delayed to Nov. 20, still in theaters.
(This, of course, was before the film ultimatelymoved to Disney+ for release on Dec.
I think it’s essential for what we do and what we’re already starting to do.
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I think it’s the path we’re on right now."
In that same spirit,Soulis unlike anything Pixar’s audiences have seen before.
That speaks to the creatives who offered their experience to shape the animation, music, and characters.
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Foxx voices Joe, the soul who definitely wants to live.
These two opposites are thrust together when they both accidentally tumble down the portal to earth.
“What if Joe were, I don’t know, an animator?
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Well, it might be too inside baseball [for audiences],” Docter says.
“What if he’s a scientist or a businessman?”
“I judged what I had played.
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Miles didn’t,” Hancock says in the video.
“Miles just accepted it as something new that happened.
Joe didn’t fully form as a character until Pixar tapped Powers, a writer onStar Trek: Discovery.
(He also adapted his own play forRegina King’s upcoming feature directorial debutOne Night in Miami.)
It’s a similar experience to how Pixar utilized Latino creatives to offer input onCoco.
“This wasn’t a rubber-stamping situation,” Powers notes.
“They were part of the development the entire time.”
The results are truly dazzling to behold.
WhileSoulmaintains a signature Pixar style of animation, it also experiments with a different visual vocabulary.
This particular moment, Docter says, hails from Trevor Jimenez, the film’s story supervisor.
Powers describes the color of the souls “almost like a very subtle kaleidoscope.”
We wanted to make that visual statement, as well.”
For Powers, the cultural specificity of a story likeSoulshouldn’t be alienating.
“[Soul] brought in a lot of new collaborators, me being one of the newest.
