The first extended trailer for Pixar's Cars 3 just dropped and it teases some intriguing
things for the second sequel in the Cars franchise.
In this video I'm going to take a look some points you might have missed in the extended
look trailer as well as some easter eggs which might impact the Pixar Theory for Cars.
The trailer starts with the same scenes from the teaser which see Lightning McQueen end
up in a serious crash that sends him spinning through the air.
The new trailer also shows the crash from some different angles and with some crucial
differences.
As the trailer begins, you'll notice it's actually daytime and if you look carefully
you can't really see any fully animated faces in the spectator vehicles that are looking
on.
The colours are muted, everything has been dulled down and you don't see any faces in
the on-looking RVs.
There's also a heartbeat and breathing sound overlaid on top of the action, and all of
these things point to the fact that something beyond the obvious going on here.
OK, let's jump forward to later in the trailer where we see the crash from another angle.
The crash happens at the Los Angeles International Speedway in both of the scenes, but here it's
actually night time with the racetrack lit by the stadium lights.
Also the onlooking spectators and RVs are properly animated with proper Cars faces and
eyes.
So why the difference?
Well, it seems likely that the first crash scene that happens during the day with a dulled
and grey background is actually a dream sequence or flashback that Lightning experiences later
in the movie.
We know that after the crash, Lightning has to retrain with Cruz Ramirez to find how he's
going to get his form back.
So, this could be a nightmare that Lightning suffers during his recovery process.
There are also some nice teases to what we might expect from Lightning's recovery, including
a couple of new looks and paint jobs.
During his crash, Lightning is still sporting more or less the same look from Cars 1 and
the beginning of Cars 2 with his classic Rust-eze logo on the back.
But in a later scene where he visits an old disused speedway track with Cruz Ramirez,
we can see he's had a new paint job.
He's now got a sort of souped up, much larger Rust-eze logo on his side and another on his
back end.
He also has Lightning McQueen emblazoned in bright fluorescent letters just above his
side windows.
And later in a pit-stop scene, the Rust-eze logo has changed again, reducing back down
in size but still different to the style from the first two movies.
Jackson Storm is clearly the new champion on the block, and we can see him collecting
an award, presumably the Piston Cup, and all the while Lightning is looking on from the
corner.
His number looks like 20 but the design has inserted a small point between the two and
the zero, which feel like a subtle reference to the fact that Storm represents the upcoming
new generation of race cars, so he's a kind of version 2.0.
And also, the symbol on the side of Jackson Storm is appropriately based on the international
hurricane symbol.
It's been tweaked and stretched and colour matched with his other blue colours to give
him a sleek look.
The trailer also flashes through some of the tech that is powering the new upstart racer.
These screens show he can change his tyre pressure according to track conditions and
which race track he on, and he's also perfected his skills and speed with access to a racing
simulator.
There's a neat Buy n Large easter egg which you can spot as a track sponsor at one of
the speedways.
And this could be further clue that ties the Cars franchise into Jon Negroni's Pixar Theory.
Remember BnL is the corporation in WALL�E that basically enabled the pollution of the
planet and sent humans away from Earth while it attempted to clear it up.
The Pixar Theory suggests that Cars takes place after humans leave the planet and before
a time hundreds of years later when the events of WALL�E take place.
The presence of Buy n Large as a corporate sponsor in Cars 3 shows the corporation is
still very much active on Earth at this time.
There are some other new sponsors teased in the trailer including the Grandol Oil company
and Frostar Air Filters, while Dinoco is clearly still the sponsor of the Piston Cup series.
And there's a new Thunder Hollow Speedway where there seems to be some pretty full-on
Mad Max style racing going on.
So far, neither Lightning's trusty pal Mater nor his girlfriend Sally have appeared in
any trailers, but the characters are confirmed to appear in Cars 3 and were included in footage
shown at the Detroit Auto Show.
So guys what did you think of the extended look trailer?
Were there any other easter eggs you spotted and what do you think about the look of Lightning's
new rival Jackson Storm?
I'd love to hear your thought in the comments below!
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