FINNEAS and Billie Eilish.Photo: Samir Hussein/WireImage
Billie EilishandFINNEASare rebranding as 4*Town, the early 2000s' hottest boy band — sort of.
The first trailer for the movie, which hits theaters in March, came out on Thursday, and featured a snippet of the track “Nobody Like U.”
Turning Redfollows 13-year-old Mei Lee (Rosalie Chiang), a teenager with a supportive group of best friends who suddenly discovers that she turns into a giant red panda whenever she becomes emotional.
The trailer leans into the early 2000s setting, and heavily features *NSYNC’s hit song “It’s Gonna Be Me,” likely a reference to the main character’s name.
“We needed our character Mei to be obsessed with something that her mom would not approve of. Boy bands were the first step into the world of boys for a lot of girls that age,” writer-director Domee Shi said, according toVariety. “The guys were all super pretty, polished, soft and loving, and they had a way of bringing girls and their besties together. Plus, I thought it’d be really cool to create an animated boy band.”
Producer Lindsey Collins said theTurning Redteam first began discussions with Eilish, 19, and FINNEAS, 24, back before they’d won their first Grammys in 2019.
“We could see then how they had their finger on the pulse. We’re big fans,” Collins said, perVariety. “We met with them and pitched this crazy idea of a boy band, asking if they’d be interested in writing and producing the songs. They were.”
Pixar teased the movie on Wednesday with a faux magazine cover called Tween Beat, with 4*Town gracing the cover as the “hottest band of the year!”
Turning Redcomes from writer-director Domee Shi, who won an Oscar for Pixar’s 2018 animated shortBao.
The film — which also stars Sandra Oh as Mei’s mother, Orion Lee as her father and Wai Ching Ho as her grandmother — will hit theaters on March 11.
source: people.com
