Back in November when the teaser for Pixar's Cars 3 arrived, and pretty much everyone
was taken aback by how dark and bleak the tone of the animated film seemed to
be. But this is ultimately a franchise targeted at a younger demographic, and
while the crash involving Owen Wilson's Lightning McQueen shown in the teaser
was certainly dramatic, new plot details and character descriptions tease slightly
different and lighter story.
Speaking to EW, first-time director Brian Fee, who worked as a storyboard
artist on the previous Cars movies, revealed that the new installment is about millennials,
specifically how McQueen is now perceived as part of the old guard by the
tech-savvy newcomers.
"McQueen is not
the young hotshot anymore, the kid he was back then in Cars 1. He’s in the
middle of his life, and as an athlete, that’s getting up there. You have your
whole life ahead of you, yet your career is starting to show its age. He’s
looking in the mirror and realizing, ‘I’m 40 years old,’ and dealing with the
fact that the thing that you love more than anything else, you might not be
able to do forever."
Pushing McQueen to
the side is the arrogant Jackson Storm voiced by Armie Hammer.
"Jackson was
born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Everything comes easy to him, and
everything about him says he’s faster, so much so that we’ve designed him
so that even when he’s standing next to McQueen, McQueen looks old… He thinks
the world is his. He’s taking over. He’s owed it. In a very broad term, I think
of old football players with those little leather skull caps, and you think of
football players now with all their armor, hitting so hard. It’s not the same
game. What they did was not anything like what we do now. And that’s Jackson:
He thinks the future of racing and the high-tech ways they train and what they
can do means they’re taking the sport to a new level, and the older guys had
their day, and it’s done, and they have no place in the future of racing."
However, not all new
cars look at McQueen as some sort of auto relic that belongs in a museum. At
his side, the aging red racer has a new trainer, Cruz Ramirez, voiced by
Cristela Alonzo, the creator and star of the TV series Cristela. Described as an
optimistic and cheerful character, Cruz will help rehabilitate McQueen and put
in back on the track.
It is unclear if Cars
3 will end the franchise, but Fee teases that the movie is "only the beginning"
for Lightning McQueen.
Cars 3 hits theaters
on June 16.
Source - EW
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