Helmer Pete Docter has finally revealed more details of his upcoming directed feature for Pixar, Soul.
Described as a film that “will take you on a journey from the streets of New York City to the cosmic realms to discover the answers to life’s most important questions,” it will be the fourth film Docter helms for Pixar following Monsters, Inc., Up, and Inside Out.
Soul will star Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey as the leads. Daveed Diggs, Phylicia Rashad, and Questlove also lend their voices to the original animated film.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Soul tells the story of a middle school band teacher named Joe Gardner (Foxx) who believes his purpose in life is to play jazz. When he finally, he gets the job of a lifetime, he dies and finds himself at the You Seminar, “a celestial workshop for souls to be created and given personality traits before they move on to real humans.”
“I’m directing a film that asks the ultimate question that we’ve all thought about at one time or another: Why am I here? Where did I come from? And what am I here for?” Docter revealed to expo-goers. “But who would make a cartoon about that? Metaphysics? We’re calling it Soul.”
Soul arrives in theaters on June 19, 2020.
