The equivalent of Disney’s Comic-Con brought new revelations about the plots for the upcoming movies, which feature a dinosaur keeping a toddler human as a pet, a journey inside the workings of the human mind, and a return to the ocean for a sequel to a Pixar classic.
Disney animation czar John Lasseter also showed off footage from the films, and presided over a parade of voice talent.
Among the biggest news was that Pixar’s “Finding Nemo” sequel — “Finding Dory” — would feature Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton as the parents of Ellen DeGeneres’ forgetful fish, while “Modern Family‘s” Ty Burrell will voice a beluga named Bailey.
Pixar’s 2014 film “The Good Dinosaur” is about a world where dinosaurs never went extinct will feature an Apatosaurus family who work as farmers tilling fields to grow tree crops to feed their herbivore brethren.
Poppa and Momma will be voiced by John Lithgow and Frances McDormand, while Bill Hader voices the older brother Forrest.
Neil Patrick Harris and Judy Greer will play middle-sibling dinosaurs Cliff and Ivy, and the lead character — baby brother Arlo — will be performed by Raising Hope’s Lucas Neff.
Pixar showed off the first footage, tracking a humongous potato-like asteroid as it hurdles through deep space on a collision course with Earth 65 million years ago, and Misses.
A few prehistoric dinosaurs munching on some midnight snacks look up to see a blue bolt shoot across the sky and disappear.
Director Bob Peterson (a veteran story artist with the company, and the voice of Dug the Dog from Up and growling Roz from Monsters Inc) oversees the film with co-director Pete Sohn (who voiced mama’s boy Squishy in Monsters University.)