Watch the newest promo for Marvel and Disney's Big Hero 6, which introduces us to Baymax proper.
Marvel fans are pretty pumped for next month’s Guardians of the Galaxy, but that isn’t the only remaining Marvel superhero movie on the 2014 calendar. In fact, considering the recent pedigree of Walt Disney Animation Studios, Big Hero 6 is one to keep an eye on. Whether in that humorous teaser from earlier in the year, or in the newest promo, which indicates a full trailer might soon be on the way.
When Disney acquired Marvel in 2009, Disney CEO Bob Iger encouraged the House of Mouse 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 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 features the voices of TJ Miller, Jamie Chung, and Maya Rudolph. It opens November 7, 2014.
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