What If You Could Talk to Animals — and They Actually Talked Back?

That's the wild, wonderful premise at the heart of Hoppers, Pixar's landmark 30th animated feature — and if the early buzz is any indication, it just might be the studio's most imaginative film in years. Directed by Daniel Chong, the creative force behind We Bare Bears, and written by Jesse Andrews, Hoppers follows Mabel, an animal lover who "hops" her consciousness into a lifelike robotic beaver to communicate with the natural world — and accidentally sparks a full-scale animal uprising.

With a voice cast that spans Piper Curda, Jon Hamm, Bobby Moynihan, Kathy Najimy, Dave Franco, and the legendary Meryl Streep, Hoppers arrives in theaters March 6, 2026 carrying both critical acclaim and a timely message about conservation, technology, and the fragile trust between humans and the world they inhabit.

We sat down with the creatives behind this cinematic leap of faith to talk about building a world where the animals have something urgent to say — and why right now felt like exactly the right moment to listen.