Disney and Pixar celebrate the home media launch of Turning Red by releasing an alternate ending for the film that features a key 4*Town member.
Disney revealed an alternate ending for the Pixar animated film Turning Red to coincide with the movie’s relase on 4k Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD.
Below, you can see images from the scene provided through a press release from Disney. In the alternate ending, Mei takes a flight from California. However, she ends up sitting next to Robaire, one of the members of boy band group 4*Town. The scene in question is not colored, having presumably been cut before that point in the animation process.
This is not the first deleted scene from Turning Red that Disney has released. Last month, the company revealed several new scenes on YouTube. One saw Mei running against her rival, Tyler, to become class president, a plot thread that did not make it into the final film. The other scenes fleshed out Mei’s desire to make money using her red panda transformation and her mother’s efforts to help calm her down.
Set in 2002, Turning Red follows 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian girl Mei Lee, who discovers periods of stress and heightened emotion cause her to turn into a red panda. This transformation ends up being something common to the female members of her family, and they soon prepare a ritual to stop the event from occurring. However, over the course of the film, Mei finds some advantages to her transformation and employs her ability to earn enough money to buy tickets to see 4*Town, a fictional boy band. Soon, Mei learns to accept herself, and Turning Red ends with her choosing to keep her ability to transform into a red panda.
While the film was originally slated to release theatrically, Turning Red instead became a direct-to-streaming release on Disney+. Shortly after the movie’s release, Disney+ announced Turning Red as being the streaming service’s biggest premiere ever. However, there are reports a number of Pixar employees were unhappy at the choice to have Turning Red premiere exclusively on Disney+. Critically, Turning Red currently holds a 94 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. At the time of writing, there’s no official confirmation on whether there will be a sequel, prequel or any spinoffs to Turning Red, though director and co-writer Domee Shi has said she’s open to the idea.
Directed by Shi from a script co-written with Julia Cho, Turning Red is available now digitally and on home media.
Source: Disney
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