New Pixar Film 'Elemental' Brings The Studio's Emotional Sensiblilties To An Outside The Box Concept.

Pixar is, if anything, prone to taking outside of the box concepts and making a feature-length epic. Be it our emotions, like with Inside Out, or a robot finding its humanity in a dystopian future, like with Wall-E, they tend to bring out the most deep-seated parts in its viewers.

The same goes for their latest film, Elemental, which was announced by the studio on Monday.

The 27th film by Pixar, Elemental will follow the budding relationship between two of the more important elements in our world, fire and water, and their quest to find how they might have more in common than they think.

According to the official logline:

"The film journeys alongside an unlikely pair, Ember and Wade, in a city where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The fiery young woman and the go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common."

The film will be directed by The Good Dinosaur frontman Peter Sohn, and produced by Denise Ream who worked on the previous film and Cars 2.

According to Sohn, the film is a personal one for him, having grown up in a melting pot of cultures back in the Bronx:

"My parents emigrated from Korea in the early 1970s and built a bustling grocery store in the Bronx. We were among many families who ventured to a new land with hopes and dreams - all of us mixing into one big salad bowl of cultures, languages and beautiful little neighborhoods. That's what led me to 'Elemental.

"Our story is based on the classic elements - fire, water, land and air. Some elements mix with each other, and some don't. What if these elements were alive?"

Elemental is due to hit theaters June 23, 2023.