Pixar’s Elio options not only one however two end-credits scenes: One serves as a candy button to the entire movie, and the opposite teases what’s to return in Pixar‘s subsequent characteristic, Hoppers. Let’s break them down.
The movie facilities on 11-year-old orphan Elio Solís (voiced by Yonas Kibreab), whose biggest desires come true when he is kidnapped by aliens. He finds himself within the Communiverse, a gaggle of the universe’s biggest alien minds, all of whom imagine he is Earth’s chief.
By the top of the movie, Elio makes a quick pal in alien Glordon (voiced by Remy Edgerly). He additionally will get a suggestion to be Earth’s ambassador to the Communiverse, regardless that his fellow ambassadors know he lied. Nevertheless, Elio realizes that his place is on Earth together with his Aunt Olga (voiced by Zoe Saldaña).
Nevertheless, because the mid-credits scene reveals, Elio hasn’t completely misplaced contact together with his alien buddies. The mid-credits sequence reveals Elio and his new (human) pal Bryce (voiced by Dylan Gilmer) fidgeting with their ham radios on the seaside. Elio is carrying Masters of Ham gear, suggesting he is discovered much more buddies within the ham radio group. As he and Bryce work with the radios, they handle to contact Glordon, proving his and Elio’s friendship is alive and effectively.
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Elio‘s end-credits scene teases 2026’s Hoppers.
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Far later, on the very, very finish of the credit, Pixar provides us an finish tag that hints at its subsequent film, Hoppers. On this finish tag, a lizard repeatedly varieties a lizard emoji right into a telephone, with a text-to-speech reader saying “lizard” with every push of a button. So, how does this texting lizard tie into Pixar’s subsequent movie?
In Hoppers, scientists have discovered a option to “hop” their consciousnesses into lifelike animal our bodies so as to talk with animals. Animal lover Mabel (voiced by Piper Curda) decides to make use of this expertise to hop right into a beaver physique and attempt to get animals to assist cease Mayor Jerry’s (voiced by Jon Hamm) environmentally damaging development undertaking.
“It’s kind of like Avatar, but cuter,” Pixar’s chief inventive officer Pete Docter instructed journalists at a June 5 presentation in New York Metropolis.
Throughout the presentation, Docter additionally screened footage of Hoppers, which featured a scene the place Mabel and the Elio finish tag’s lizard attempt to talk with Mayor Jerry utilizing text-to-speech. Appears like we are able to count on much more animal emojis in Hoppers.
Elio is now in theaters. Hoppers hits theaters March 6, 2026.
