While lately a lot of the talk surrounding Pixar has been about Cars 3 and the decidedly different tone the trailer and poster brought us, lest we forget another original film from the studio is also in the pipeline: Coco. Today Entertainment Weekly revealed some of the cast the will lend their voices to the project and a little more about the plot of the film.
Headlining the film will be Benjamin Bratt, Gael García Bernal, and Anthony Gonzalez, who play 12-year-old Miguel. Also cast in the film is Renée Victor as Miguel’s grandmother Abuelita.
As for the plot, here’s how EW describes it:
Coco follows the secret musical ambitions of Miguel, who resides in a lively, loud Mexican village but comes from a family of shoemakers that may be the town’s only music-hating household. For generations, the Riveras have banned music because they believe they’ve been cursed by it; as their family history goes, Miguel’s great-grandfather abandoned his wife decades earlier to follow his own dreams of performing, leaving Imelda (Miguel’s great-grandmother) to take control as the matriarch of the now-thriving Rivera line and declare music dead to the family forever.
But Miguel harbors a secret desire to seize his musical moment, inspired by his favorite singer of all time, the late Ernesto de la Cruz (Bratt). It’s only after Miguel discovers an amazing link between himself and De la Cruz that he takes action to emulate the famous singer and, in doing so, accidentally enters the Land of the Dead.
In the beautiful underworld, it’s not long until Miguel encounters the souls of his own family — generations’ worth of long-dead but no less vivacious Rivera ancestors, including great-grandmother Imelda. Still, given the opportunity to roam around the Land of the Dead, Miguel decides to track down De la Cruz himself. He teams up with another friendly (and skeletal) spirit — a trickster named Hector, voiced by Bernal — to find De la Cruz, earn his family’s blessing to perform, and return to the Land of the Living before time runs out.
Excited? Well you don’t have that long to wait — Coco is slated to open in theatres November 22nd, 2017.