Hot on the heels of the poster release just a few days ago,comes the first teaser trailer for next year's Disney/Pixar movie, Brave. (I'm so pleased that I was able to type Disney/Pixar this time!) It premiered with Cars 2 in the theatres, but Disney have now released it on their YouTube channel and it's embedded below for your viewing pleasure -- I recommend the HD version if you've got the bandwidth.
The film is set in the Highlands of Scotland and the trailer opens up with some stunning flybys of the mountains and lochs, before showing us some more moody, ground-level, shots, all accompanied by a voiceover in an Scottish accent intoning what being "brave" means. Eventually we are shown the heroine of the tale: Merida, a princess who eschews her Royal parentage to pursue her dream of becoming an archer. There's some more fabulous animation work in her curly red hair (surely more tangled than Tangled) and that of her horse - head over to stichkingdom.com for a gorgeous hi-res shot of Merida's hair. The overall style of the animation is much more grown up than Toy Story or Cars, and possibly even more so that Ratatouille, and looks like it could get very dark in places.
Brave is set for a summer 2012 release and features the voice of Kelly Macdonald as the heroine, with Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Julie Walters, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson and Robbie Coltrane providing voices for the other main characters -- nice to see that they're all actually Scottish, or at least English, for that added touch of authenticity!
Read more about Brave on IMDb and on the movie's official Facebook page
