Hard to believe, but it was back in 1977 when Pete's Dragon hit the big screen for the first and this summer a new live-action version is coming our way.
Pete's Dragon
Pete's Dragon is just one of the Disney movies that we are going to be treated to this year and is based on the short story by S.S. Field and Seton I. Miller.
Pete's Dragon marks the return of David Lowery to the director's chair for what will be the fourth feature film of his career and the first since Ain't Them Bodies Saints back in 2013.
While Lowery is no stranger to the director's chair, Pete's Dragon will be the biggest film of his career to date. It is exciting to see him take on a much bigger challenge than his previous film projects. Lowery has also teamed up with Toby Halbrooks to pen the film's screenplay.
Robert Redford and Bryce Dallas Howard are set to team up to take on the central roles of Mr. Meacham and his daughter Grace. The movie is also set to introduce us to the acting talents of Oakes Fegley, who will take on the role of Pete.
This is the biggest role of Fegley's acting career to date and Pete's Dragon looks set to be the film that makes the young actor a star.
Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, Craig Hall, Oona Laurence, and Isiah Whitlock Jr complete the exciting and talented cast list.
For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham (Redford) has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace (Howard), who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales... until she meets Pete (Fegley).
Pete is a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories.
With the help of Natalie (Laurence), an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack (Bentley) owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.
2016 is set to be another huge year for Disney with Zootropolis already enjoying massive box office success and Moana being another animated feature on the horizon. Pete's Dragon is the second live action film for the studio and will follow in the footsteps of The Jungle Book, which will be released in a couple of weeks.
Disney already looks on course to have a bumper 2016 and be one of the highest-grossing studios of the year... and we are only in April.
Pete's Dragon is released 12th August.
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