Jamie Chung Cast in Disney/Marvel’s Big Hero 6

The voice castings for the first Walt Disney Animation Studios adaptation of a Marvel property keep rolling in. Jamie Chung, who is well known to the geek community for appearing in Sucker Punch, The Hangover: Part 2, and this August’s hotly anticipated Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (in which she will be replacing Devon Aoki for the role of Miho), has been cast in an unspecified role for the Disney event film. While there is no official announcement, it has been included in her bio on NBC.

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.

Also, special thanks to ComingSoon for alerting us to this casting news!

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