[UPDATED] Dreamworks Animation drops the latest trailer for Forgotten Island and it gives eager fans much more to be excited about.
Watch the new trailer below.
Universal Pictures Philippines has released the official trailer for DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming movie Forgotten Island featuring Liza Soberano and other Pinoy celebrities.
The Forgotten Island trailer shows two young girls, Jo and Raissa, meeting for the first time and eventually becoming best friends into their teenage years. Voiced by H.E.R. and Soberano respectively, the two friends get closer as they years pass by. When it’s time for Raissa to go to the United States for school, the two discover a portal that leads to a mysterious island full of mythical creatures like the Ibong Adarna, manananggal, and kapre among others.
The two soon learn that the longer they stay in the island, the more memories of each other they lose so they fight to find their way back home.
Forgotten Island trailer boasts of colorful sets and bring in the nostalgia especially for Filipino audiences as it showcases various elements that are simply Pinoy—from elementary school uniforms to how Pinoy suburbs look to the iconic jeepney. It’s made more appealing by the haunting and wistful soundtrack, Simple Minds’ Don’t You Forget About Me, which is probably the theme for most friendships in the 90s.
Watch the trailer below.
About Forgotten Island
Your best friendship is worth fighting for.
DreamWorks Animation, the studio that brought you unforgettable bonds between a boy and a dragon in How to Train Your Dragon, an ogre and a donkey in Shrek, and a robot and a gosling in The Wild Robot, now welcomes a dazzling and emotional story about two lifelong best friends who must come together before they drift apart in Forgotten Island.
The new original film is written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado and is produced by Academy Award® nominee Mark Swift, the filmmaking team behind Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
Grammy and Academy Award® winning supernova H.E.R. and Liza Soberano (Lisa Frankenstein, Alone/Together) star as high school graduates Jo and Raissa, who have been best friends since grade school but are now about to embark on separate life paths.
While celebrating their last night together, Jo and Raissa stumble upon a mysterious portal that transports them to the fantastical island of Nakali, packed with magical and mythological creatures they grew up hearing stories about from their Filipino families.
Some of these figures will become friends, some foes. Joined by well-meaning-but- hapless weredog Raww (Dave Franco) and a small-but-mighty pack of pals, Jo and Raissa must face The Dreaded Manananggal (Tony winning icon Lea Salonga), the most feared creature on the island. When they discover that the memories of their entire friendship are the price for returning home, Jo and Raissa will race to find a way to leave the island before they forget each other forever.
The film’s all-star voice cast also includes Emmy nominee Jenny Slate (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Dying for Sex), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place, Top Gun: Maverick), BAFTA nominee Dolly de Leon (Triangle of Sadness, Ghostlight), global comedy superstar Jo Koy (Haunted Mansion, Jo Koy: Live from Brooklyn) and Emmy winner Ronny Chieng (The Daily Show, M3GAN).
DreamWorks Animation’s Forgotten Island is distributed by Universal Pictures.