Watch the second full trailer for Walt Disney Animation Studios' Big Hero 6. And it is heavy on the robot action of Baymax!
Marvel fans are still pretty buzzed off last month’s glorious Guardians of the Galaxy, but that isn’t the last 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. While the new trailer is playing things pretty light and simple (focusing on the comedic action of Baymax), if one recalls the Frozen trailers, they tended to downplay just why that movie played to literally all ages.
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 Ryan Potter, TJ Miller, Jamie Chung, Scott Adsit, Genesis Rodriguez, and Maya Rudolph. It opens November 7, 2014.
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