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Vivo’s Trailer Is About the Power of Music and Adorable Honey Bears

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Vivo’s Trailer Is About the Power of Music and Adorable Honey Bears

Gabi (Ynairaly Simo) and Vivo (Lin Manuel Miranda) dance and sing in front of a colorful speaker setup.

The present should go on for this little Kinkajou.
Screenshot: Netflix

We’ve recognized for years that the thought behind Vivo—and its Lin-Manuel Miranda-created unique soundtrack—laid dormant till Sony Pictures quietly picked up the undertaking 5 years in the past. Now, we’ve lastly bought a glimpse of it, and maybe a cute Kinkajou was well worth the wait.

Netflix has simply launched the primary trailer for Vivo, directed by Kirk DeMicco and Brandon Jeffords, primarily based on a script by DeMicco and In the Heights’ Quiara Alegría Hudes, and that includes a long-in-limbo unique soundtrack by the ever-busy Lin-Manuel Miranda. The movie follows the titular younger Kinkajou Vivo—a tropical rainforest mammal often known as a honey bear, native to Central and South America—voiced by Miranda himself, when he befriends an aged musician in Havana named Andrés (Juan de Marcos). After Vivo learns from Andrés a few want to declare his like to his former singing accomplice Marta Sandoval (Gloria Estafan), Vivo goes on a quest to take him from Cuba all the best way to Florida and ship Andrés’ love track to Marta’s farewell live performance—with a little bit assist from an unruly younger lady named Gabi (Ynairaly Simo) alongside the best way.

Vivo’s had an odd path to its eventual launch. Dreamworks animation initially employed Miranda to soundtrack the film again in 2010, however for myriad causes—together with partly, Miranda’s trip into the musical stratosphere with the success of Hamilton, resulting in the person seemingly by no means stopping for a second to breathe ever since—the undertaking lay dormant for years, till Sony Pictures picked up the movie in 2016 for a projected 2020 launch. Last 12 months was, properly, final 12 months, so Vivo bought pushed extra. Now, as a part of a wider relationship Sony has had with the streamer just lately—smash hit Mitchells vs the Machines, for instance, was initially a Sony theatrical launch earlier than it debuted as one in every of Netflix’s most profitable animated motion pictures earlier this 12 months—the film will debut on the streamer early subsequent month.

Vivo, additionally starring Zoe Saldaña, Brian Tyree Henry, Michael Rooker, and Nicole Byer, will hit Netflix on August 6.


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