Pete's Dragon: New Clips & B-Roll Footage Released

Walt Disney Studios has released a trio of clips and over 9-minutes of behind-the-scenes footage [...]

Walt Disney Studios has released a trio of clips and over 9-minutes of behind-the-scenes footage from their upcoming reboot of Pete's Dragon.

In the first clip, a young girl (Oona Laurence) asks Pete (Oakes Fegley) if Elliott the Dragon is an imaginary friend. In the following clip, after Pete jumps off a cliff on purpose, Elliott catches him in mid-air on his furry back and takes the young orphan for a thrilling ride. In the third and final clip, Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford) entertains a group of children with a (not-so) tall tale of a dragon living in the nearby woods.

A reimagining of Disney's cherished family film, "Pete's Dragon" is the adventure of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliott, who just so happens to be a dragon. "Pete's Dragon" stars Bryce Dallas Howard ("Jurassic World"), Oakes Fegley ("This is Where I Leave You"), Wes Bentley ("The Hunger Games"), Karl Urban ("Star Trek"), Oona Laurence ("Southpaw") and Oscar winner Robert Redford ("Captain America: The Winter Soldier"). The film, which is directed by David Lowery ("Ain't Them Bodies Saints"), is written by Lowery & Toby Halbrooks based on a story by Seton I. Miller and S.S. Field and produced by Jim Whitaker, p.g.a. ("The Finest Hours," "Friday Night Lights"), with Barrie M. Osborne ("The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," "The Great Gatsby") serving as executive producer.

For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford) has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales…until she meets Pete (Oakes Fegley). Pete is a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories. With the help of Natalie (Oona Laurence), an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack (Wes Bentley) owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.

Disney's "Pete's Dragon" opens in U.S. theaters on August 12, 2016.

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