Directed by Lee Unkrich alongside writer and co-director Adrian Molina and producer Darla K. Anderson, Day of the Dead-themed animated feature arrives in theaters on November 22, 2017.
Disney has revealed a new teaser trailer for Pixar’s Coco, the forthcoming Day of the Dead-themed animated feature from director Lee Unkrich.
Set for release on November 22, 2017, Coco is being directed by Unkrich (Toy Story 3) alongside writer and co-director Adrian Molina and producer Darla K. Anderson.
Coco follows the secret musical ambitions of Miguel, who lives in a lively Mexican village but comes from a family of shoemakers that may be the town’s only music-hating household. For generations, the Riveras have banned music because they believe they’ve been cursed by it; as their family history goes, Miguel’s great-great-grandfather abandoned his wife decades earlier to follow his own dreams of performing, leaving Imelda (Miguel’s great-great-grandmother) to take control as the matriarch of the now-thriving Rivera line and declare music dead to the family forever.
But Miguel harbors a secret desire to seize his musical moment, inspired by his favorite singer of all time, the late Ernesto de la Cruz (Bratt). It’s only after Miguel discovers an amazing link between himself and De la Cruz that he takes action to emulate the famous singer and, in doing so, accidentally enters the Land of the Dead.
In the underworld, Miguel encounters the souls of his own family -- generations’ worth of long-dead but no less vivacious Rivera ancestors, including great-great-grandmother Imelda. Still, given the opportunity to roam around the Land of the Dead, Miguel decides to track down De la Cruz himself. He teams up with another friendly spirit -- a trickster named Hector, voiced by Bernal -- to find De la Cruz, earn his family’s blessing to perform, and return to the Land of the Living before time runs out.
Check out the new trailer in the player below:
Source: The Walt Disney Studios
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
