There will be no shortage of big creatures for families to choose from this summer. Next month, Steven Spielberg brings “The BFG” to multiplexes across the country, and in August, Disney has their own movie about a small kid with a giant friend.
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David Lowery has made the blockbuster leap, going from indie “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” to big studio picture “Pete’s Dragon,” a reboot of 1977 live action/animated musical, just sans the music. Meanwhile, Robert Redford, Bryce Dallas Howard (fresh off running from dinosaurs in “Jurassic World“), Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, and Oona Laurence have all lined up roles in this one about an orphaned boy and his fiery best bud. Here’s the official synopsis:
For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford) has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales…until she meets Pete (Oakes Fegley). Pete is a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete’s descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham’s stories. With the help of Natalie (Oona Laurence), an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack (Wes Bentley) owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.
“Pete’s Dragon” opens on August 12th.
