ELIO
HERE’S WHY WE’RE HYPED FOR PIXAR’S OUTER-SPACE ADVENTURE
Above:
Elio (Yonas Kibreab) goes for a ride with OOOOO (Shirley Henderson).
Left:
Glordon’s alive! Concept art of Elio with his alien pal, voiced in the film by Remy Edgerly.
IT’S A RARE PIXAR SCI-FI
When Pixar goes sci-fi, you have a chance of getting E. (We’ll forget Lightyear WALL• for now.) Elio promises a similarly sweet intergalactic outing. The titular kid is “this little boy who feels like an alien on Earth”, explains director Madeline Sharafian. When he’s beamed to the ‘Communiverse’, the galactic ambassadors assume Elio to be Earth’s leader. “His sense of loneliness is the heart of the movie, wanting so desperately to be wanted,” Sharafian says. “It’s propelling him through lying about who he is, in order to fit into this amazing alien world.”