Eddie Izzard and John Turturro will be lending their voices to the forthcoming Cars 2 film. The film will be the sequel to Pixar and Disney's 2006 original.
The animation giants made the announcement at the New York Toy Fair earlier this month. Turturro, star of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, will play the arrogant Francesco Bernoulli, an Italian Formula 1 car that serves as a rival to Owen Wilson’s Lightning McQueen.
Izzard will voice Miles Axelrod, reports Empire. The character is an oil tycoon-turned-environmentalist who sold off his assets and has set about finding alternative fuels.
The pair will join the returning stars of the first film: Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Daniel Lawrence Whitney, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Michael Keaton and Jenifer Lewis.
Previously-announced actors set for new roles include Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Jason Isaacs, Thomas Kretschmann, Joe Mantegna and Peter Jacobson.
I agree, but we still really enjoyed this movie. After UP and TOY STORY 3, an action-adventure comedy with a little heart was a nice change-of-pace. If they'd tried to be more heart-tugging than those last two, we'd all have been sobbing in the aisles.
I seldom enjoy The Idiot Is Mistaken As A Spy plot, which requires everyone around the idiot to be even more stupid than he is. And Mater is only funny to me in very small doses.
Would loved to have seen a Cars themed spy movie minus the Radiator Springs gang.
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It's gotten the worst reviews of a Pixar movie to date and it's less successful than the last half dozen outings, but not dramatically so.
It's not so much a stinker as it's just not up to their usual standards. It's a kid's movie through and through and since kids love Mater, I'm sure most of them loved this one.
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It's not so much a stinker as it's just not up to their usual standards. It's a kid's movie through and through and since kids love Mater, I'm sure most of them loved this one.
Yeah, just not up to their usual standards. However, it will produce a ton of new toys for Christmas, make Pixar a ton of money, and help finance future films.
Pixar is an animation studio that produces all-ages, family films. It's not all-ages or a family film, and it's not animated. It's definitely being made by some of Pixar's best writers and creators, but that doesn't make it a Pixar film. That's probably the best thing that Pixar's people have gotten out of being acquired by Disney; the chance to break into more types of filmmaking beyond animation.
I know that Stanton has disavowed everything Pixar, promising that Pixar would never be associated with anything as non-all-ages as John Carter (then saying, "well, we're going to use what we have to use to get the job done... wink, wink), but can I legally hope that the folks that have worked at Pixar that are working on John Carter that use the Pixar equipment to render the animation in this non-animated movie will put in an extra effort since their regular employer has had less than usual success with Cars 2?
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