Disney's Pete's Dragon Just Added 2 Major Actors — cinemablend.com

Recent reports from TheWrap confirm Bentley’s addition to the cast and Variety would subsequently drop the news of Hall’s involvement. The duo will join Robert Redford, Bryce Dallas Howard, and young Oakes Fegley, who will play the titular Pete. The film will attempt to modernize the original 1977 Disney film set in a small fishing town in the early 1900’s about a boy named Pete who is stuck in a bad situation with a wicked foster family of obnoxious yokels, the Gogans. While trying to run away, he is rescued by a friendly dragon named Elliott, who has the power to turn invisible, specifically around adults. (Because if we’ve learned anything from family movies, the plot just can’t afford for kids to be believed.) Slap-happy shenanigans ensue all around the town. Fish are disappearing and the townsfolk are looking for a scapegoat. (Because that’s what townsfolk tend to do in movies.) Pete gets friendly with a lighthouse lady whose fiancé is missing at sea and protects him from all the Elliott-related adversity, despite not being initially sure if the dragon isn’t just the product of a lonely child’s imagination.

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