Plucky bunny cop Judy Hopps and her erstwhile foil, now partner, fox Nick Wilde got some prime screen time during Disney’s CinemaCon presentation today as a pair of clips were shown from Zootopia 2. The sequel to 2016’s Oscar-winning $1B+ grosser is due for release in the Thanksgiving corridor this year.
The first movie followed Judy (Ginnifer Goodwin) as a rookie cop who teams up with con artist Nick (Jason Bateman) to uncover a conspiracy in a titular metropolis of anthropomorphic animals.
New cast member Ke Huy Quan was on hand to introduce the fresh Zootopia 2 footage. He joins the follow-up as a snake named Gary, the impetus for Judy and Nick’s next case.
This portion of the show was introduced in voice-over by Bateman as Nick, who referred to CinemaCon as “ZinemaCon, Celebrating the Animal Experience” before Quan took the stage.
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Quan called Gary “Zootopia’s first snake” and winked, “Like me, he is terrifying and villainous. … Gary kicks off the whole mystery when he turns up and panics the town.” Judy and Nick take on the case of tracking Gary down, but they are “going through a rough patch,” per Oscar winner Quan, and reluctantly are subjected to partners-counseling sessions with a “therapy animal” aka Dr Fuzzby (voiced by newly announced Quinta Brunson).
In the first clip shown, the group-therapy meeting has a number of curiously paired partners — think elephant and mouse — but Judy is in denial that she and Nick have any issues. “We have been partners for one week and we are not dysfunctional at all. … Us being here seems like a misunderstanding,” she says as she nervously thumps her foot. Dr. Fuzzby in turn notes the “disconnected affectation of her emotionally insecure partner.”
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In the second clip shown today, we see Judy and Nick set off to a swamp area where the snake has been sighted and where they meet with a beaver “who has her own way of communicating.”
Zootopia 2 is directed and written by Byron Howard and Jared Bush, who also were on the original. That film was a global phenomenon, grossing $1.026B and scooping the Best Animated Feature Academy Award.
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