Finding Dory Setting And Plot Details Revealed
The setting for Pixar’s 2016 sequel ‘Finding Dory’ has been detailed in a recent talk with its president, Jim Morris, at Brazil’s Comic-Con Experience, and there’s no sign of the ocean we were expecting.
OK, that’s not strictly true, but Morris revealed that the majority of the film’s story will actually take place in the Marine Biology Institute of California, with segments returning to the big blue, as per 2003’s ‘Finding Nemo’.
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As the conversation was translated from Portuguese, it’s difficult to cite direct quotes (so I shall paraphrase), but the return of Marlin (which we knew) and Nemo (which we didn’t) kick off the story months after the first ends. The clown fish are now happily living with Dory on the reef.
After Dory accompanies Nemo on a school trip, memories of her past are somehow triggered and she begins an adventure to find out where she came from and to locate her parent.
According to Slashfilm’s translation, we’re led to “a huge rehabilitation complex for marine and aquarium life.” It cites how Dory learns that she was in fact born and raised there, but released into the ocean when she was only young.
It’ll be interesting to see how these two worlds merge: one’s a closed off, monitored environment, whereas the other is, well, the vast openness of the ocean.
Excitingly, set in a controlled location that studies marine life will open all sorts of door to introducing new and varied characters. Already Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton have signed up to play Dory’s parents, with Ty Burrell as a beluga whale. Idris Elba and Dominic West have also been listed in the voice acting cast.
Details on ‘Finding Dory’ are still, at best, sketchy, but there’s plenty of time to find out more before its summer 2016 release.
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