
In Elemental, fire, water, earth, and air folk reside semi-harmoniously in the magnificent metropolis of Element City. It’s against this dazzling backdrop that sparks fly between hotheaded young woman Ember (Leah Lewis) and go-with-the-flow guy Wade (Mamoudou Athie). Directed by Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur, and the voice of Sox in Lightyear), it’s Pixar’s first original film to hit cinemas since the pandemic.
"We knew it was going to be hard. We didn’t know it was going to be as hard as it was," producer Denise Ream tells Total Film magazine in the latest issue, which features Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny on the cover, of a project that tested the limits of Pixar’s technical teams.