Strange World On Disney Plus: When Will It Come To The Streaming Service?
Disney+ announced today that Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Strange World will be heading to the streaming service beginning December 23. It is the 61st animated production by the studio and features Disney’s first openly LGBTQ lead character. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, but was a box office bomb, with projections of as much as a $147 million loss for Disney.
Directed by Don Hall (Big Hero 6, Raya and the Last Dragon), Strange World is a nod to pulp magazines of the 1920s and 30s along with films like Journey to the Center of the Earth, Fantastic Voyage, and King Kong. Strange World was released alongside Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and Devotion, as well as the wide expansions of The Fabelmans and cannibal romance Bones and All. The film was initially projected to gross $30 to 40 million but managed $4.2. That low amount led to less optimism about it meeting initial box office projections and could debut at as low as $23 million.
The film suffered from almost no promotion in the US and lasted barely a month in theaters as it premiered at the end of November. Disney pulled out for a theatrical release in 20 countries, mainly the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and China, due to the inclusion of a gay main character, Ethan Clade, voiced by comedian Jaboukie Young-White.
Strange World will be among coal documentary From The Ashes, Jaguar Beach Battle, and Little Giant for new releases that week at Disney+.
Strange World stars the voices of Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, the aforementioned Young-White, Gabrielle Union, and Lucy Liu as a group of space explorers, who must set aside their differences as they embark on a journey to save a resource called the Pando from losing its energy power source.
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