Jake Gyllenhaal Joined by Dennis Quaid, Lucy Liu Gabrielle Union in Disney’s ’Strange World’

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Strange World,” the upcoming adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and scheduled to be released on Nov. 23.Directed by “Big Hero 6” helmer Don Hall, rolling off the success of “Raya and the Last Dragon,” and written and co-directed by Qui Nguyen, who co-wrote “Raya,” “Strange World” follows three generations of the Clade family, legendary explorers, who arrive at a dazzling land full of mysterious phenomena – shoals of flying fish, walking rock columns, and octupus-looking monsters, a recent trailer suggests.Narrated in a retro visual style of ‘50s sci-fi B movies, “Strange World” will have granddad Jaeger Clade voiced by Quaid.

Young-White voices the grandson, Ethan. Union voices Meridian, who is married to son Searcher, played as already announced by Jake Gyllenhaal.

Liu is Callisto Mal, head of Avolonea, the magical setting to the film. Inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Jules Verne, the movie incorporates other non-speaking characters, such as a three-legged dog, Legend, and a gelatinous blue blob , Splay, whom they meet on their adventure.“He might become your favourite character,” producer Ray Conli said in Annecy.

The full voice cast was announced at a Walt Disney Animation Studios showcase at France’s Annecy Animation Festival , which began with the award of an honorary Annecy Cristal to Jennifer Lee, WDAS chief creature officer best known as writer-director of “Frozen,” which won her an Academy Award, and “Frozen II.”Lee also produced “Encanto” as well as “Raya and the Last Dragon” and executive produced the upcoming Disney Plus projects “Baymax” and “Zootopia +.”Calling animation “part of my memories, my escape, my friend, my hope,” Lee described animation as imagination in its most.