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Feb 15, 2021 · The second Disney/ Pixar animated feature from Scanlon, following 2013’s Monsters University, centers on Ian (Tom Holland) and Barley Lightfoot (Chris Pratt), elven brothers in search of a...
- Matt Grobar
Jun 16, 2020 · Dan Scanlon was a year old and his brother three when their father died in a car accident. Onward, voiced by Tom Holland, Chris Pratt and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imagines two brothers can...
Mar 5, 2020 · “Onward” goes a step further: It’s inspired by the death of writer-director Dan Scanlon’s father. “My dad passed away when I was a year old and my brother was three,” he said.
- Bill Desowitz
The touching true story behind Onward – how a real-life loss inspired the Pixar movie. Writer/director Dan Scanlon drew from his own family background for the moving fantasy tale. Disney. Huw...
- Huw Fullerton
Mar 1, 2020 · In Disney and Pixar’s “Onward,” Ian Lightfoot (voice of Tom Holland), a 16-year-old elf, yearns for the father he lost before he was born. He listens to his father’s voice on a tape recording,...
Mar 12, 2020 · Inspired by his own relationship to his older brother and their connection with their father, who died when Scanlon was only a year old, the animation studio's latest story is a heartfelt...
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Jan 24, 2021 · January 24, 2021 10:45am. “A lot of Pixar films are based on personal experiences,” says Onward director Dan Scanlon at Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event. “This might be more...
