Lightning McQueen and Mater are set for a road trip
This week, Disney hosted their annual Investor Day presentation. It announces upcoming projects in the vast Disney portfolio.
Cars is an animated series that follows the tribulations Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) and Tow Mater (voiced by Larry the Cable Guy). The three films have collected $1.4B at the box office worldwide.
Pete Docter, chief creative officer of Pixar announced several upcoming projects for the company. Of those, three of them are series that will be coming to Disney+, their online media-streaming service.
In Fall 2021, a series called Dug Days will surface. This is a follow up series to the movie Up. It will follow the dog from the film as he discovers things like fireworks for the first time.
Cars is getting a new series. It remains untitled but the plot is that Lightning McQueen and Mater travel across the country on a road trip. The series will also join Disney+ in fall 2022.
This will be the first new Cars production since Miss Fritter’s Racing Skoool and Cars 3. Both the show and movie came out in 2017.
Win or Lose is a new story from Disney. The plot is a middle school softball team preparing for their championship game. Each episode will feature a different main character. This show will also come to Disney+ with an estimated release of fall 2023.
View the entire Cars portfolio below.
Cars: Movies
Title | Release | Worldwide Box Office
Cars
June 9, 2006
Box Office: $462M
Cars 2
June 24, 2011
Box Office: $562M
Cars 3
June 16, 2017
Box Office: $383M
Cars: Short Films
Title | Release
Mater and the Ghostlight
October 25, 2006
Note: Released with the DVD of the Cars movie.
Miss Fritter’s Racing Skoool
November 7, 2017
Note: Released with the DVD and Blu-Ray of the Cars 3 movie.
Cars: Shows
Title | Running | Episodes | Network
Cars Toons: Mater’s Tall Tales
2008-2012
Episodes: 11
Network: Toon Disney, Disney Channel and ABC Family
Cars Toons: Tales from Radiator Springs
2013-2014
Episodes: 4
Network: Disney Channel
Links
Cars | Disney | Pixar | Disney+
