Elio (film)

Elio is a 2025 American science fiction adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It follows an eleven-year-old boy named Elio Solis who accidentally becomes the intergalactic ambassador of planet Earth after being beamed up to the Communiverse by aliens for making contact. He must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms and navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions that involves the warlord father of an alien he befriended.

They asked for our leader. They got… him.

Directed by Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, and Adrian Molina. Written by Julia Cho, Mark Hammer, and Mike Jones.

Elio Solis

• I'm trying to get abducted… by aliens.
• I just wanna belong somewhere.
• So if any aliens are listening please come by and get me. Okay, bye, I love you.
• YES! I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT!!!
• This is the most beautiful place I've ever seen!
• Back home, I didn't fit in. I always thought Earth was the problem, but what if it's me?
• I've never had a friend before.
• Glordon, I am not fireproof!

Glordon

• No one's ever asked me my name before.
• Well, I like you, and you seem fine to me.
• I've never been called a friend before.
• Hi, Dad! I'm a bargaining chip!
• Just get in my mouth.

Olga Solis

• Elio! Skipping school?
• You need to make friends.
• Your life isn't up there, Elio. It's down here.

Lord Grigon

• My son, are you prepared to become the greatest war machine in the universe?
• I am Grigon! Prepare to be conquered!
• This is who they send? You're more puny than expected.
• You will feel my wrath.
• [as Glordon laughs] What is that unholy sound?! Stop!
• My son cannot join those weaklings.
• I may not always understand you, but I still love you.

Dialogue

Olga: I don't know if this is boundary testing or sleep regression or ugh! [shows him the feeling chart] Which one of these (emotions) is you?

Elio: I don't know, but I think that one is you. [points to the overwhelmed emption]

Olga: [squeals in frustration] Okay, I've got one last meeting, so I need you to sit here and not move or speak or injure yourself for 10 minutes. [Elio gives her two thumbs up; sighs] I have enough to deal with already.

Taglines

• The universe called… the wrong number.
• They asked for our leader. They got… him.

Cast

• Yonas Kibreab — Elio Solis/Other Elio
• Zoe Saldana — Olga Solis
• Remy Edgerly— Glordon/Other Glordon
• Brandon Moon — Helix
• Brad Garrett — Lord Grigon
• Jameela Jamil — Questa
• Dylan Gilmer — Bryce
• Jake Getman — Caleb
• Matthias Schweighöfer — Tegmen
• Ana de la Reguera — Turais
• Atsuko Okatsuka — Naos
• Shirley Henderson — OOOOO
• Brendan Hunt — Gunther Melmac
• Naomi Watanabe — Auva
• Anissa Borrego — Mira
• Shelby Young — Diplo Ship
• Bob Peterson - Universal Users Manual
• Kate Mulgrew — Narrator of the Voyager 1 Museum Exhibit
• Tamara Tunie — Colonel Markwell

External Links

• Elio quotes at the Internet Movie Database