Onward (film)

Disney’s Pixar Animation Studios announced the title of its next feature-length project: Onward. The film scheduled to be released in theatres March 6th, 2020 will star Chris Pratt, Tom Holland, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer.

In 2017, it was announced that Dan Scanlon is directing a suburban fantasy film, with Kori Rae producing, which takes place in a modern and post-magical world without humans and populated with elves, trolls, and sprites, where unicorns are as common as rodents.

At last year’s D23, Pixar revealed that the base for the film will follow a world of “suburban fantasy,” populated by beings of fantasy stories like trolls, elves, centaurs and more. In this world, machines take the place of magic — so elves use cell phones and centaurs eat fast food. Instead of being mysterious, glamorous creatures, unicorns are racoon-like pests. Anthropomorphic trees grow in the middle of parking lots.

It was later revealed that the film will follow two elf brothers who lost their father when they were too young to remember him, and with the help of some magical remains left in the world, they embark on a quest which could give them a day to spend with their deceased father. The film was inspired by the death of Scanlon's father, who died when he and his brother were 1 and 3 years old respectively. Scanlon decided to write this story when they were played an audio clip of him as teenagers.

It will begin production in January 2019.