Warrior princess fights to save humanity in Raya and the Last Dragon trailer

Disney has launched the official full trailer for its upcoming animated movie, Raya and the Final Dragon, with Kelly Marie Tran and Awkwafina voicing the titular characters. It has the excellence of being the primary Disney animated characteristic to be remotely developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, working with residence tools and principally speaking by way of Zoom. The pandemic additionally prompted the movie’s launch date to be shifted a number of occasions. It is now slated for a March 5 launch, each in theaters and on Disney+ with premier entry.

Disney first introduced the movie throughout its 2019 D23 Expo and offered co-directors Don Corridor (Huge Hero 6, Moana) and Carlos Lopez Estrada (Frozen II, Blindspotting) at D23 the next yr. The fictional fantasy land of Kumandra was impressed by a number of completely different Southeast Asian cultures—Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Laos, and the Philippines—and the manufacturing group traveled extensively to most of these international locations to analysis the movie. A Lao visible anthropologist additionally reviewed the ultimate designs.

Per the official synopsis:

Raya and the Final Dragon takes us on an thrilling, epic journey to the fantasy world of Kumandra, the place people and dragons lived collectively way back in concord. However when an evil drive threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to avoid wasting humanity. Now, 500 years later, that very same evil has returned and it’s as much as a lone warrior, Raya, to trace down the legendary final dragon to revive the fractured land and its divided folks. Nevertheless, alongside her journey, she’ll study that it’ll take greater than a dragon to avoid wasting the world—it’s going to take belief and teamwork as nicely.

Along with Tran (The Final Jedi, Rise of Skywalker) and Awkwafina (Loopy Wealthy Asians, The Farewell) as Sisu, the water dragon, the all-star solid contains Alan Tudyk (Resident Alien, Firefly) as Raya’s BFF and trusty “steed,” Tuk Tuk, whom Corridor has described as a cross between a fuzzy bear and “an insect model of an armadillo,” per Leisure Weekly. Gemma Chan (Loopy Wealthy Asians) voices Raya’s nemesis, Namaari; Sandra Oh (Sideways, Killing Eve) voices Namaari’s mom, Virana; Daniel Dae Kim (Misplaced, Hawaii 5-O) performs Raya’s father, Chief Benja; Benedict Wong (Physician Unusual) performs an enormous named Tong; Izaac Wang performs a 10-year-old “entrepreneur” named Boun; and Thalia Tran pays a child con artist named Little Noi.

The trailer opens with Raya encountering Little Noi, seemingly deserted in an alley, solely to find the tiny con artist has some formidable acrobatic and martial arts abilities. She recruits the tot for her quest to seek out the final dragon, together with Tong and Boun. However they aren’t the one ones attempting to find Sisu, and when Raya lastly finds her, Namaari and her followers are mendacity in wait. “You and the dragon are coming with me,” Namaari declares, however Raya is not having it. “My sword right here says we’re not.” We will most likely count on an epic showdown between these two on the movie’s finale.

Raya and the Final Dragon premieres on March 5, 2021, concurrently in theaters and on Disney+ (with premier entry) due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.

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