On the bootheels of yesterday’s first look and cast reveal Universal Pictures has launched the official trailer for DreamWorks Animation’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The first feature film from the Shrek universe since the furry hero’s solo spin-off in 2011, The Last Wish looks to be a carryover of classic DWA style melding with the snappy, graphic animation aesthetic of today’s CGI blockbusters.
Brought to the screen by the team behind The Croods: A New Age, director Joel Crawford and producer Mark Swift, the fearless feline outlaw’s new adventure begins when Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll. Puss has burned through eight of his nine lives, though he lost count along the way. Getting those lives back will send Puss in Boots on his grandest quest yet.
Antonio Banderas returns as the voice of the notorious PiB as he embarks on an epic journey into the Black Forest to find the mythical Wishing Star and restore his lost lives. But with only one life left, Puss will have to humble himself and ask for help from his former partner and nemesis: the captivating Kitty Soft Paws (Salma Hayek). Aided — against their better judgment — by a ratty, chatty, relentlessly cheerful mutt, Perro (Harvey Guillén), our heroes will have to stay one step ahead of Goldilocks (Florence Pugh) and the Three Bears Crime Family, “Big” Jack Horner (John Mulaney) and terrifying bounty hunter, The Big Bad Wolf (Wagner Moura).
The voice cast also features Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone, Samson Kayo, Anthony Mendez and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Chris Meledandri serves as executive producer.
