Chris Pratt and Tom Holland are feeling the love. Though there’s a significant age gap between the 40-year-old Pratt and the 23-year-old Holland, the two exude a warm, jokey rapport, one forged by their shared experience inhabiting Marvel superheroes, with Pratt playing Star-Lord in the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise and Holland playing Spider-Man. “I can’t help but try to be like a big brother to Tom,” Pratt says. “Thanks, man,” says Holland.

The latest Pixar animated film, “Onward,” draws upon that fraternal feeling, with Holland and Pratt lending their voices, respectively, to Ian and Barley Lightfoot, two young elves who embark on a quest to try to magically bring their late father back to life for one day.

Director and co-writer Dan Scanlon drew inspiration for the heartstrings-tugging fantasy comedy-adventure from the death of his own father when he was a baby and a recording of his voice that he and his older brother came upon as teenagers. “Sadly, like myself, a lot of kids do have to deal with these themes (of losing a parent) and I think our hope is that the movie can kind of walk them through it in a way that is honest but also fun and funny,” Scanlon says. “We do our best to ride that line.”

Pratt and Holland, who have shared the screen in the box office juggernauts “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame,” spoke to The Times about delving into the movie’s emotional depths, embracing nerdy fantasy pursuits and pressing onward through the ups and downs of Marvel superstardom. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

Q: What appealed to you both about “Onward” when you first heard the pitch?

Holland: Obviously it doesn’t need that much convincing for someone to say yes to a Pixar movie, but it was even easier when I heard how passionate Dan was about telling this story. So after my first meeting I was basically begging for them to give me this job and I was lucky enough that they did. And then I got luckier still when they told me that Chris was involved and he was going to play my big brother. I thought that was kind of a storybook ending because we have a very brotherly relationship anyway.

Pratt: When Dan told me his story about his relationship with his brother and the trauma of having lost a father, it was very moving. I lost my father (in 2014), and my brother, sister and I entered that inevitable season of having lost a parent early and so that was something I’ve dealt with and I understand.

Some of the stuff was incredibly emotional (to perform). I remember being pushed to that edge to where you’re like, “This is a cartoon. I’m not going to go there.” It’s always a bit of an inner conflict, like, how much of this am I willing to share right now? And then they push and they push and they push and then you go there.

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It’s Valentine’s Day in Los Angeles, and Chris Pratt and Tom Holland are feeling the love. Though there’s a significant age gap between the 40-year-old Pratt and the 23-year-old Holland, the two exude a warm, jokey rapport, one forged by their shared experience inhabiting Marvel superheroes, with Pratt playing Star-Lord in the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise and Holland playing Spider-Man. “I can’t help but try to be like a big brother to Tom,” Pratt says. “Thanks, man,” says Holland.

The latest Pixar animated film, “Onward,” in theaters Friday, draws upon that fraternal feeling, with Holland and Pratt lending their voices, respectively, to Ian and Barley Lightfoot, two young elves who embark on a quest to try to magically bring their late father back to life for one day.

Director and co-writer Dan Scanlon drew inspiration for the heartstrings-tugging fantasy comedy-adventure from the death of his own father when he was a baby and a recording of his voice that he and his older brother came upon as teenagers. “Sadly, like myself, a lot of kids do have to deal with these themes [of losing a parent] and I think our hope is that the movie can kind of walk them through it in a way that is honest but also fun and funny,” Scanlon says. “We do our best to ride that line.”

Pratt and Holland, who have shared the screen in the box office juggernauts “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame,” spoke to The Times about delving into the movie’s emotional depths, embracing nerdy fantasy pursuits and pressing onward through the ups and downs of Marvel superstardom. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

What appealed to you both about “Onward” when you first heard the pitch?

Holland: Obviously it doesn’t need that much convincing for someone to say yes to a Pixar movie, but it was even easier when I heard how passionate Dan was about telling this story. So after my first meeting I was basically begging for them to give me this job and I was lucky enough that they did. And then I got luckier still when they told me that Chris was involved and he was going to play my big brother. I thought that was kind of a storybook ending because we have a very brotherly relationship anyway.

Pratt: When Dan told me his story about his relationship with his brother and the trauma of having lost a father, it was very moving. I lost my father [in 2014], and my brother, sister and I entered that inevitable season of having lost a parent early and so that was something I’ve dealt with and I understand.

This is how a FaceTime interview with Chris Pratt and Tom Holland goes before you even get around to their new Pixar movie “Onward.”

Holland opines about his weak voice (“I find it hard at dinner parties. No one can hear me”). Pratt shares that classically trained actors sometimes don’t know how to whisper or have a normal conversation (“They’re like, ‘Hello, would you like to talk?!’ I’m like, ‘Bro, I’m two feet from you’ “). And both have opinions about whether anyone’s truly protected from hackers by putting a sticker over their computer camera.

“They don’t want to see what I’m doing on Amazon with my pants off,” Pratt says.

“What would you be buying?” Holland asks.

“Probably pants! Somewhere, I lost my pants,” Pratt cracks.

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The twosome are bantering buddies in real life, members of the mighty Marvel movie brotherhood and now elf siblings in the animated fantasy “Onward” (in theaters Friday). Holland, 23, stars as Ian Lightfoot, a 16-year-old gifted with a magical staff and enchantment to spend 24 hours with the father who died before he was born, and Pratt, 40, voices burly big brother Barley, with whom Ian goes on an epic quest after their spell goes awry. Only half of their dad is conjured and the clock is ticking to complete the task.

Co-writer/director Dan Scanlon crafted the characters to each actor (“Tom adds so much sincerity to Ian,” and “Chris is kind of a Barley: He’s wild and chaotic and funny”) and found their onscreen roles matched their real-life chemistry. “Tom looks up to Chris, and Chris is like a big brother to Tom. He gives him a hard time now and then in a playful way.”

Jurassic World 3 director Colin Trevorrow on Tuesday announced Day 1 of shooting for the Universal sequel, plus the pic’s title: Jurassic World: Dominion.

It’s Trevorrow’s second time directing the dinosaur franchise, after J.A. Bayona took over for the second movie, 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Trevorrow is also exec producing with Steven Spielberg. Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley are producing.

Through five movies, the Jurassic franchise in total has amassed north of $5 billion. Jurassic World: Dominion hits theaters on June 11, 2021. Most of the Jurassic Park gang is back –Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum — as they team up with Jurassic World stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. [Source]

Jurassic World 3 star Chris Pratt says in addition to Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Sam Neill many of the franchise’s old cast will return.

Jurassic World 3 will feature a returning cast of many of the franchise stars, according to its most prominent, Chris Pratt. The final chapter of the Jurassic World trilogy closes out the franchise’s cinematic run, at least for the time being. Pratt has spoken in bombastic terms about the trilogy finale in the past, comparing it to Avengers: Endgame, a movie that closed out a saga, but not a cinematic universe.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom ended with dinosaurs roaming freely across the globe, both in cities and in the wild, suggesting the next film could take the story to a global scale. The broader scope opens the door to check in with fan-favorite characters from previous entries in the Jurassic Park saga, while also introducing a slew of new faces as well. Venom actor Scott Haze has been cast in the movie, for example, in a role that has yet to be disclosed.

Pratt continues to hype the film. At a press event, he told Variety the people behind Jurassic World 3 are “bringing everybody back.” Pratt, who plays Owen Grady in the trilogy, suggested that he was hanging on to a secret in making his comment, but much of the casting news about the movie has already been reported. Unless more returnees haven’t been confirmed, Pratt’s secret is one that escaped months ago.

The biggest casting news surrounding Jurassic World 3 is the return of the Jurassic Park characters fans fell in love with back in 1993. Dr. Alan Grant (played by Sam Neill), Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), and Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) will appear in the current trilogy for the first time – except for Goldblum who popped up in a cameo in Fallen World. Additionally, Jake Johnson and Omar Sy reprise their roles from 2015’s Jurassic World.