By Carolyn Giardina
Elio | Teaser Trailer
Zoe Saldana has joined the voice cast of "Elio," the 29th film from Disney's Pixar, which centers on a boy named Elio who is inadvertently beamed into an interplanetary organization where he is chosen to become Earth's ambassador to other galaxies.
Saldana will voice Elio's aunt. "I felt a real connection to the character and wanted to see a representation of how a real family works on screen. The relationship that you and I share in the film felt authentic," she said at D23.
A plot description from Pixar reads: "The original feature film introduces Elio, an underdog with an active imagination who inadvertently beams himself into the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization comprised of representatives from galaxies far and wide. Mistakenly identified as Earth's ambassador to the rest of the universe, and utterly unprepared for such pressure, Elio must form new bonds with eccentric alien life forms, survive a series of formidable trials and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be."
