Zoe Saldana is part of the cast of Elio.
Elio is a new animated film from Pixar set to be released in 2025. As announced at D23 on Friday, August 9, 2024, Saldaña has now joined the cast of the film and will lend her voice to Elio’s aunt Olga.
“I felt a real connection to the character and wanted to see a representation of how a real family works on screen. The relationship that you and I share in the film felt authentic,” Saldaña said via Variety on Dec. 23.
Saldaña is known for her roles as Gamora in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Neytiri in James Cameron’s Avatar films, and Nyota Uhura in the recent Star Trek films. Her filmography also includes Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2003), The Losers (2010), Out of the Furnace (2013), Missing Link (2019), and more.
What is Pixar’s Elio movie about?
“The original film introduces Elio, an outsider with a vivid imagination who is accidentally beamed into the Communism, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far away. Mistakenly identified as Earth’s ambassador to the rest of the universe, Elio is completely unprepared for these pressures. He must form new bonds with eccentric alien life forms, survive a series of difficult trials, and somehow discover who he is really meant to be,” the plot description reads.
Elio is directed by Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi and Adrian Molina. Mary Alice Drumm produces the film.
The voice ensemble also includes Yonas Kibreab as Elio, America Ferrera as Elio’s mother Olga, Jameela Jamil as Ambassador Questa and Brad Garrett as Ambassador Grigon.
“Elio” was originally scheduled to hit U.S. theaters on March 1, 2024, but was postponed to October 2023 due to the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) strike.
The film will now open in the United States on June 13, 2025.
