Disney+ has dropped a brand new Baymax! trailer, as well as key art for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ upcoming Big Hero 6 spin-off, centering around the solo adventures of everyone’s favorite healthcare companion. The series is scheduled to premiere on June 29.
“I thought it would be fun to do a Disney+ series with Baymax interacting with normal folks,” Series creator Don Hall teased in a statement. “In each of our six episodes, Baymax just wants to help someone—and a lot of times they don’t want to be helped. He sets out to fix a physical issue that he’s identified, and in the process, gets to a deeper, more emotional place and can be almost transformative in that role.”
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Baymax! marks the first animated series from Walt Disney Animation Studios. It will feature the voices of Scott Adsit, Ryan Potter and Maya Rudolf as they reprise their respective roles of Baymax, Hiro Hamada, and Aunt Cass from the Oscar-winning 2014 film. Joining them are Emily Kuroda, Lilimar, Zeno Robinson and Jaboukie Young-White.
“The all-new series of healthcare capers returns to the fantastical city of San Fransokyo, where the affable, inflatable, inimitable healthcare companion robot, Baymax, sets out to do what he was programmed to do: help others,” reads the synopsis.
The spin-off is created by original director Don Hall, with Dean Wellins (Eps 1, 2, 6), Lissa Treiman (Ep 3), Dan Abraham (Ep 4) and Mark Kennedy (Ep 5) set as directors from a screenplay written by Cirocco Dunlap.
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Based on the Marvel comics of the same name, Big Hero 6 was directed by Don Hall, and Chris Williams from a screenplay by Jordan Roberts, Robert L. Baird, and Daniel Gerson. The action-packed comedy-adventure also starred Ryan Potter as Hiro Hamada, Jamie Chung as Go Go Tomago, Damon Wayans Jr. as Wasabi, T.J. Miller as Fred, Genesis Rodriguez as Honey Lemon, and Daniel Henney as Tadashi.
It was an instant hit with a gross of over $650 million at the global box office. The film was also a critical success as it successfully won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
