‘Elemental’ Gets a 20-Minute Sneak Preview at CinemaCon
thewrap.comElemental,” as theater owners got to see the first 20 minutes of the film. Directed by Peter Sohn and inspired by his immigrant parents’ life in New York, “Elemental” stars Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie as Ember and Wade, two residents of a city where personifications of water, fire, air and earth live alongside each other.
But living alongside each other is as much as they can do, as fire elementals are physically incapable of touching water elementals just as earth elementals cannot touch fire elementals.
The film opens with Ember’s fiery parents, Bernie and Cinder arriving by boat to their new home with other travelers from air, earth and water.
Murals show the arrival of those three elements to the city, but Bernie and Cinder are among the first fire elements to arrive at this new metropolis, as seen by their problems getting around the language barrier and getting denied apartments by water and wood landlords.
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