When Walt Disney's animation studies published "Zoootopia" as early as 2016, it is unlikely that anyone could predict that it would continue to become one of the biggest original films ever made. The sequel seemed inevitable, but it would not be by 2022 A series of Disney+shorts+, "Zoootopia+", will arrive on a stream. Nearly a decade later, "Zootopia 2" is finally set to hit theaters. Despite the long wait between the films, the story does not take place long after the first film, with Yudi Hops (Inninifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (Asoneyson Batman) become the official partners of the CPD. Their first major obstacle is to learn how to work with each other in professional capacity (including high -speed chase), but their connection is tested when a blue pit named Gary (Ke Hugh Kuan) disrupts zootopia's fragile balance.

The reptiles were previously left out of the original film "Zootopia", and the story of the sequel seems to prove that keeping reptiles of their utopia of animal origin was in design. The sequel film will again use stereotypes and animal -related tropes as allegories of how people communicate with each other. What assumptions do hot-blooded mammals make in connection with "cold-blooded" guerries? How did these assumptions emerge? And more importantly, who has the most benefits believing that reptiles have no place in their beautiful city? New countries, new characters (Hunters Mayor Windenker, expressed by Patrick Warburton, will surely be the main), and the new adventures are waiting, but the important message in the center remains the same.

Continuing the franchise's legacy of challenging assumptions through empathy and sharp sense of humor, here are five things we learned about "Zootopia 2" from the Special Review event, and the interviews I conducted with the creative team behind the film.

Aredard Bush served as the chief creative officer of the Walt Disney Animation Studio from 2024, with his progress in the mouse house working on "zootopia". According to co-director Byron Howard, "it's funny because Aredar made a drawing probably five or six years ago when we were at" Enkanto "that said" Zoootopia 2 ", and" 2 "was a snake. Immediately, Howard knew Disney had to do this. The title of the film. "And we also admit that we are surrounded by world -class people who are all virtuosos in what they do."

For Bush, he was already a storm of "Zootopia 2" before the first film even hit theaters, long before the entertainment industry. Began to fix to post built -in franchise films. Instead of jumping right in another movie "Zootopia", Howard and Bush continued to co-raise the award at the Encanto Academy, giving them a lot of time to drain what their return to the animal world would use. "I think the really critical part of this is what you need to set up to make a great movie no matter what," Bush told me. "And I think there are very high expectations of this film that is frightening, but we love the idea that people will expect a lot of this movie and we want to deliver it." How to pull that? Bush says the key is Nick and Yudi. "When you go down to the bottom of it, this is the story of the two with a bunch of other things that are going on, but in his core, these characters I think people are in charge and we want to respect it in the story."

Much of the marketing of Zootopia 2 has concerned the shocking introduction of a snake into this world of mammals, but Gary de'lenke is not the only reptiles publication to see in "Zootopia". In fact, yudi and nick will even resort to reptile speakeasy, full of tight skin shells, tails that appear (but grow back) and full reptile strip. The head of the story of Disney Animation, Kerry Liao, tells me that the creation of this new world is the most fun for the team because it is specific to the story of artists to be allowed to get with what Speakeasy will impose:

"It was really like, okay, you have a bar, you have reptiles ... Go! ' How would this reptile space be designed?

Yudi and Nick are completely out of their Reptil Speakeasy element, and even seek the help of a missed lizard from Bosilisk named Jessi, who, yes, can run through the water. Until Disney would confirm who expresses Jessis, if you listen carefully to the trailer, he sounds scary as much like one of the greatest and most recognizable action stars of all time.

While the rural small town against the urban big city was featured in the first film "Zootopia", the sequel will continue its exploration on class themes. For example, there is a wealthy family of stings, Kuttrik (Macaulaj Kulkin), Kitty (Brenda Song), Brandtt (Andy Samberg) and Patriarch Milton (David Stratyarn), which add a little "succession" element in the dynamics of the city. According to the head of the story of Disney Animation, Kerry Liao and the story's supervisor, David Wantuil, diving in the world of the richest zootopia, posed some of the biggest challenges of production.

"I would say that the most challenging was probably as a gala, because we are exploring the upper crust of Zutopia society," Lio told me. "So, it's new in the sense that it's like," Oh, we haven't seen our characters in this situation before, and what kind of vibration we are trying to create because we introduce this very important family (...) What is the way we can show how it is a little more fancy, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more? Wantuil tells me that in understanding the look of the great gala, the creative team was looking at sculptures with ice to help catch the look of excessive wealth and power.

The Rislis are one of the most important families in zootopia, probably even a sea of ​​"godfather" by Mr Big-ESK Mafia Family on the first film. With reptiles of seemingly systematically kept out of zootopia by design, what secret could the elite trying to discover Gary de'jnek?

Fruitful composer Michael Gijacino Once again he returns to Disney to achieve "Zoootopia 2" and pull out all the stops to sound as unique as possible. During the press event, Giacchino conducted an amazing band to give us an overview of the sounds of the speakeasy reptile, including the horns that made Casoos to give trumpets and thrombones a completely new sound. "This can be the craziest result I have written throughout my life," he explains to the crowd. "And when I say madly, I think, in a sign, you go from the Banjo from the home, to the left it turns into a show of the 70s police officers, right turns into a French bistro restaurant, and then a little left in heavy metal with screaming.

Giacchino has incorporated how many unique sounds as human as possible in the result, including the rarely used shock instrument called Flapamba, and the instruments that his children have made as fun projects over the years. "There is no such thing as" no "to this result. It was always, "Yes, use it!" Or if anyone does something strange, Aredar (Bush) will only go (demonic voice) "YESS", "he explains.

And fans will be thrilled when they know that the only ass, expressed by Shakira, returned with a new song to follow the "Try anything", called "Zoo". Written by Ed Sheran, Blake Slatkin and Shakira, the "Zoo" will be available as a single on October 10, 2025 and will be stuck in your head until the sun burns. Ed Sheran and Blake Slatkin will also appear in "Zoootopia 2" in special homes as a pair of sheep named Ed Sharin and Baalake Lamin, because nothing beats a good name at Punk.

One of the most famous music in the Disney Animation Song is Elton Johnon, Hans Zimmer and Tim Rice's "Circle of Life" from "The Lion King", a song that reminds us all of us that there is even more to see than can be seen and more ... Of course, the song is nowhere near that blunt with its messages, but that's the truth in the heart of it all. We are all part of the circle of life, and part of that circle means dying.

In the world of "zootopia", which unfortunately means that mistakes and some species of fish no Friends, and they are food. "Zoootopia 2" sees Jududi and Nick visiting a new community called Marsh Market, which is home to Baby as a maplestick (Fortune Feimster), prints, sea lions, hippopotamus and carrots. And yes, they do Eat fish, and even have a complete fish market with a literal fisher who turns the dead fish into a yam. Have fun wrapping your head around the frightening implications of thaty'all.

"Zootopia 2" arrives in theaters on November 26, 2025.