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Directed by | Brian Fee |
Produced by | Kevin Reher |
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Owen Wilson Cristela Alonzo Armie Hammer Larry the Cable Guy Bonnie Hunt Cheech Marin Michael Wallis Paul Dooley |
Music by | Randy Newman |
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Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Cars 3 is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated sports film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the third installment in the Cars franchise and is being directed by Brian Fee, a storyboard artist on Cars (2006) and Cars 2 (2011). It will follow Lightning McQueen as a new generation of sleek race cars arrive and he is forced out of racing. With help from race technician Cruz Ramirez, he begins training to get back in the game. The film is scheduled to be released on June 16, 2017.
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen pushes himself beyond his limits and has a major crash at the Piston Cup, resulting in removal from his racing career to recover from his injury. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young female race technician, Cruz Ramirez. Proving that #95 isn’t through yet, he will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing’s biggest stage against his new rival, Jackson Storm.
On August 17, 2013, Michael Wallis (voice of Sheriff in the films) told radio listeners that Cars 3 would go back to Route 66 and will also include Route 99.
At the Disney stockholder meeting on March 18, 2014, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that Pixar had begun pre-production on Cars 3. In October 2014, Pixar's chief creative officer John Lasseter revealed at the Tokyo International Film Festival that the film will feature a tribute to Hayao Miyazaki's film The Castle of Cagliostro in a form of an old Citroën 2CV. Production began in summer 2014. On October 8, 2015, the film's release date was announced to be June 16, 2017.