It's been confirmed that TJ Miller will voice the character of Fred, a filmmaker, in Marvel and Walt Disney Animation Studio's Big Hero 6.
The one Marvel movie coming out this year that fans tend to overlook is getting closer by the day: Walt Disney Animations Studios’ Big Hero 6. Based on the titular Marvel comic book super squad that started appearing in the late 1990s, the film is being made by the same studio that gave us Frozen and Wreck-It Ralph. And now, we have the first vocal casting confirmation for the project with TJ Miller, who recently told Bostinno that he would be lending his talents to the film. Confirming that, Rotoscopers is now reporting that he will be voicing the character of Fred.
Fred is described to be an aspiring low-budget filmmaker who at one time volunteered to be a test subject for robot experiments with Tadashi, but is now happily staying on as a fellow researcher at Tech Labs where he films weird, “funny” videos of himself.
When Disney acquired Marvel in 2009, Disney CEO Bob Iger encouraged the House of Mouse side to consider other, lesser Marvel properties for animated adaptation, leading to Big Hero 6. As a team of Japanese superheroes, created in 1998, the super-squad was originally led by Silver Samurai (an X-Men villain who appeared in 2013’s The Wolverine). However like all super-teams, the roster has rotated. Set originally in Japan—where the heroes would face Eastern-centric horrors like the astral embodiment of the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings—this effort adapted by Walt Disney Animation Studios will be set in the futuristic San Fransokyo, a hybrid between San Francisco and Tokyo. There, Marvel’s child prodigy turned superhero, Hiro Hamada, and his trusty robot Baymax will find themselves in an origin story of criminal malfeasance. Joe Quesada, Marvel Entertainment’s chief creative officer, has said it retains Marvel’s “heroic arcs,” but with a Disney-flavor in the main characters’ relationship.
Big Hero 6 opens November 7, 2014.
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