‘Pete’s Dragon’: First Clip of David Lowery’s Take on Classic Disney Adventure Teases Something Big
Disney’s upcoming “Pete’s Dragon” doesn’t just represent a fusion between the indie and blockbuster worlds because it’s directed by David Lowery. It also co-stars Robert Redford, who founded the Sundance Film Festival — which happens to be where Lowery’s “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” premiered in 2013. Disney has released the film’s first clip (below).
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In it, Bryce Dallas Howard is looking over drawings on a wall when Redford enters the room and expresses disbelief that the title character, a semi-feral child who recently emerged from a nearby forest, could survive in the wild on his own for six years. How right you are, Robert — it’s almost as though the boy has a mythical friend out there.
Wes Bentley, Karl Urban and Oakes Fegley all co-star in “Pete’s Dragon,” the latest in Disney’s series of live-action remakes that also includes new versions of “Winnie and Pooh” and “Beauty and the Beast.” Lowery’s reimagining of the 1977 animated/live-action hybrid arrives in theaters on August 12.
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