Maya Rudolph has been cast in the Walt Disney Animation Studios adaptation of Marvel's Big Hero 6.
And following the not-quite official revelation yesterday that Jamie Chung will appear in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ take on the Marvel comic book Big Hero 6, some official chatter about the on-screen chatting has rolled in. As first reported in TheWrap, Maya Rudolph of Saturday Night Live and Bridesmaids fame has been cast in the highly anticipated animated event film.
Joining T.J. Miller, who was cast in the role of Fredzilla, and Chung who has since been confirmed as the voice for Go Go Tomago, Rudolph further rounds out an impressively growing cast. It is also far from Rudolph’s first foray into voice acting, as she played the voice of a tenacious pug in this winter’s The Nut Job.
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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