Fire meets water in the teaser trailer for Pixar’s Elemental
Earth, fire, water, wind, but not heart: With Pixar's powers combined, this is Elemental
Despite the increase in the number of Pixar movies over the last 10 years, in 2022, we’re only getting one. Elemental, Peter Sohn’s first Pixar film since the rare total misfire, The Good Dinosaur, hits theaters next June, but the teaser trailer will give you a taste right now. Just don’t burn yourself.
Living on the Soul and Inside Out end of the Pixar spectrum, Elemental is another one of Pixar’s lowkey dalliances into myth-making. “The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in,” reads a press release. Much as Soul attempted to explain where inspiration comes from or how Inside Out personified emotions, Elemental does the same with the elements. Wind, water, fire, earth, and, presumably, heart will all get their own little humanoid representative in Element City, with the new kid in town, Ember (Leah Lewis), serving as our surrogate. As a fire thing, she has a harder time making friends, especially considering elements like earth are flammable and wind makes Ember grow.