Finding Dory first started hurtling around the rumour mill about 3 years ago, and information has been steadily trickling in since then. We’ve known for a while that the film is slated for a June 2016 release, and that Andrew Stanton, the writer/director of the previous film, as well as WALL-E and A Bug’s Life (he was also Hamm in the Toy Story films) took on the job after the John Carter sequel was dropped. Stanton maintains that this had nothing to do with how badly the first film bombed, and characterised the kind of people who would suggest such a thing as ‘sarcastic’, which leaves me at a bit of a loss, frankly.
As is the way with Pixar, they’ve let the first trailer slip out a fair old while before the film is actually due to release, so expect a long, trundling hype train voyage between now and next summer. It doesn’t reveal much, other than the fact that ‘Finding’ the title is slightly more abstract than it was for Nemo’s outing. In this case, Dory is out to find herself, as old memories of her family begin to fade back into recognition within her amnesia-addled mind.
We know from various sources that, besides both Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres coming back to play Nemo and Dory respectively, a number of big names have joined the cast for the second go-around. These include It’s Always Sunny‘s Kaitlin Olsen as a whale shark, Ed O’Neill as an octopus and Idris Elba and Dominic West in as yet unspecified roles, but if they were cast together to recreate their McNulty/Stringer dynamic from The Wire as CGI sea creatures, I will lose my mind. THINK OF THE PUNS. Perhaps the best piece of news though is that Thomas Newman will be back to follow up on his stunning score from the original film. Roll on June.
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