Looks like it isn’t just the creative and story side that have seen a change for Pixar’s late 2015 release, The Good Dinosaur. Deadline reports that the voice cast has also been overhauled, with Anna Paquin, Jeffrey Wright, Steve Zahn, Raymond Ochoa, Jack Bright, A.J. Buckley, Sam Elliott and Marcus Scribner all now aboard.
Originally targeting a summer 2014 release, the film – which was to have featured John Lithgow, Frances McDormand, Lucas Neff, Bill Hader, Neil Patrick Harris and Judy Greer – was pulled from the schedule for some serious re-tooling and moved to November this year. Original co-director Pete Sohn moved into the top spot, replacing Bob Peterson and the story has been shifted.
Some of the elements will remain the same, in that the basic story finds an Apatosaurus named Arlo (Ochoa) separated from his family, who comes across a human cave-boy orphan he named Spot (Bright). Wright is taking over as Arlo’s dad, while Zahn will be a pterodactyl named Thunderclap, Paquin, Elliott and Buckley as a T-Rex family named Ramsey, Butch and Nash, and Scribner set as Arlo’s brother, Buck. Pixar will no doubt be hoping that the dino-fever rekindled by the success of **Jurassic World **will help the film’s chances.
The Good Dinosaur will be out in the US on November 25 before heading here on November 27.