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Bryce Dallas Howard is in talks to take on the lead female role in Disney’s Pete’s Dragon reboot. If cast, she will join Oakes Fegley, who is playing the title character. There's also a chance that Robert Redford could star in the film, as he's currently in talks.
David Lowery (Ain't Them Bodies Saints) is set to direct from a script he wrote with Toby Halbrooks. The movie is based on the 1977 version that revolves around a boy named Pete and his best friend Elliot, who is a big green cartoon dragon. The original movie was a musical, but sources say this will be a straight narrative. It will be live-action with CGI used to bring the dragon to life, and it will be interesting to see what the design of the dragon will look like.
Here are some previously released story details:
"While the original was set in a fishing village at the turn of the 20th century, the new story is set against the backdrop of loggers cutting down a forest. Pete is a boy whose parents died in car crash, and has been subsequently raised by Elliot, the titular dragon in the threatened forest."
They movie also features characters such as a forest ranger who finds Pete, the young daughter of the mill owner (Oona Laurence), and the greedy brother of the mill owner. If Redford is cast in the movie, he will play "a local who tells tall-tales involving dragons that no one believes."
Howard recently finished shooting Jurassic World.
