Toy Story 5 tickets have gone on sale today, and the final trailer has been released featuring Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie and the gang as they reunite on a mission to confront Lilypad, a new smart tablet with her own ideas about the best way to help their kid Bonnie make new friends.
We also have a series of new posters, and news that multi-platinum global recording artist and 6x Grammy Award winner Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, a.k.a. Bad Bunny, has a voice cameo in the upcoming film as the new character Pizza with Sunglasses.
Effortlessly cool and mysterious, Pizza with Sunglasses is a member of a small but mighty community of forgotten toys that live in an abandoned backyard shed.
Pixar has also confirmed yesterday's news that Alan Cumming (The Traitors) has joined the voice ensemble in a cameo as Evil Bullseye, Bullseye's playtime alter ego. While Woody's trusty steed still lacks the power of speech in the world of Toy Story, Cumming provides Bullseye's voice during a playtime sequence in the film.
Talking to Variety, Toy Story 5 director Andrew Stanton explained Woody's new bald spot when he said, "He has a new purpose of not being devoted to one kid. He’s out in the field and not worrying."
"The bald spot symbolises that he’s just worn out from not trying to take care of himself so much anymore — just doing whatever dirty work needed to be done to save a toy," he continued, later confirming that AI was not used in the making of the movie.
"We’ve had machine learning since the beginning of Pixar as far as figuring things out for you occasionally, but it’s always been to make the tools work better," Stanton explained. "I have no interest in doing anything but working smarter, faster with another artist."
The toys are back in Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 5, and this time it’s Toy meets Tech. Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), Jessie (Joan Cusack) and the rest of the gang's jobs are challenged when they come face-to-face with Lilypad (Greta Lee), a brand-new tablet device that arrives with her own disruptive ideas about what is best for their kid, Bonnie. Will playtime ever be the same?
The movie is directed by Academy Award winner Andrew Stanton, co-directed by Kenna Harris, produced by Lindsey Collins, p.g.a., and written by Stanton and Harris from a story by Stanton. The film features an original score by Oscar-winning Randy Newman, who returns to score Toy Story 5, which arrives in theaters on June 19.