Soul gets a new trailer ahead of its Disney+ debut
Disney have released a new trailer for Soul, days after it was revealed the movie would be coming to Disney+ in Australia and New Zealand on Christmas Day, check out the trailer below.
The movie tells the story of Joe Gardner, a middle-school band teacher with a serious passion for jazz music. Joe is brought to life by Jamie Foxx, who shares his animated persona’s love for music.
“Like Joe, I hear music in everything,” said Foxx. “When you’re a jazz artist, man, you talk a little different: ‘Hey, cat!’ I got a chance to go to a few jazz fests and meet Herbie Hancock, Chick Correa—hang out with those guys. They have a way of talking, a way of dressing—everything funnels toward their music, toward the jazz.”
The film is being directed by Pete Doctor, who was responsible for Monsters Inc, Up and Inside Out and he also shares a love of music. The strangest part was that the element of Jazz was not considered when the character of Joe was first dreamt up.
“I’ve been so lucky to work with some incredible people and make movies that have been seen around the world,” he said. “But I realized that as wonderful as these projects are, there’s more to living than a singular passion—as expressive and fulfilling as that may be. Sometimes the small insignificant things are what it’s really about. This film is about broadening the idea of a singular focus to thinking more widely about what life has to offer and what we have to offer life.”
The main cast consists of Foxx as the lead and Tina Fey as 22, with Phylicia Rashad, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Angela Bassett and Daveed Diggs, all have major roles in the movie. We also got more cast details revealed today as well, with five-time BAFTA winner Graham Norton (“The Graham Norton Show”) voicing the spiritual sign twirler Moonwind.
The voice cast also includes Rachel House (“Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” “Thor: Ragnaraok”) as the count-obsessed Terry, and Alice Braga (“Elysium”), Richard Ayoade (“The Mandalorian”), Wes Studi (“Woke,” “The Last of the Mohicans”), Fortune Feimster (“Bless the Harts”) and Zenobia Shroff (“The Affair”) as the voices of the Counselors. Comedian Donnell Rawlings voices Joe’s barber Dez, and June Squibb (“Nebraska”) provides the voice of Gerel.
