TRAILER: Disney & Marvel’s ‘Big Hero 6′
Thus far since Disney Studios made the acquisition for all Marvel comics characters (only off limits are the movie rights for Fantastic 4, X-Men and Spider-Man for the time being), there hasn’t been any direct collaborations between the studios. That is to say, Marvel studios have made their movies, and Disney has distributed them. Apparently, however, an animated movie has been in production and the trailer is now online for Big Hero 6, which will be the first movie co-produced by Marvel and Disney Animation and an adaptation of a Marvel property; previously Pixar was linked, but only John Lasseter, who is the head of Disney Animation, is on the film as executive producer.
From the look of the main credits on IMDb, it doesn’t look like a lot of Marvel personel are involved – the directors Don Hall and Chris Williams previously helmed Disney pics Winnie the Pooh and Bolt respectively – but this IS technically a Marvel property, only one that is a little more obscure. It was a comic series created in the mid 1990’s by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau, and teamed up with the character Sunfire, who looks like someone out of a Street Fighter video game.
According to the Wikipedia, the series is centered largely out of Japan and concerned the government deciding to create a group of state-sanctioned superheroes, starting with Silver Samurai as the team commander and from there characters like Sunpyre, Baymax and Honey Lemon. Sunfire is a character that also appeared in X-Men, and other cross-overs happened with Spider-Man and W0lverine comics.
The YouTube description may just sum it up best: s, “Big Hero 6″ is an action-packed comedy-adventure about robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who learns to harness his genius—thanks to his brilliant brother Tadashi and their like-minded friends: adrenaline junkie Go Go Tamago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon and fanboy Fred. When a devastating turn of events catapults them into the midst of a dangerous plot unfolding in the streets of San Fransokyo, Hiro turns to his closest companion – a robot named Baymax – and transforms the group into a band of high-tech heroes determined to solve the mystery.”
Produced by Ron Conli (of Tangled fame), the trailer teases with a set-up that is like the best in modern light-comic Disney, akin to the original teaser of The Incredibles where a superhero has trouble fitting his husky body into his super suit, only here it’s a boy making a giant marshmallow man instead of a super-samurai, and has to put the armor on piece by piece.
The movie comes out November 7th in the U.S. (competition will be Interstellar) and February 15th in the UK. Excited? Tweet @FocusFilm
