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.

John Joven

• I'm trying to get abducted… by 👽.
• I Can’t Just Do It.
• So if any 👽 are 👂 🙏 come by and get me. 👍, 👋, I ❤️ you.
• 👍! I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT!!!
• This is the most 🤩 place I've ever seen!
• Back 🏠, I didn't fit in. I always 💭 🌍 was the problem, but what if it's me?
• I've 👎 had a friend before.
• So A Bird Is Not Feed Table Diet!

Green Alien

• No I Don’t Like This As Much As The Put The Baseball To Good & Then Put On An Eh.
• Well, I 👍 you, and you seem fine to me.
• I've 👎 been called a friend before.
• 👋, 👨! I'm a bargaining chip!
• Just get in my 👄.

Helene Leroux

• Elio! Skipping 🏫?
• Each Team Needs Two People.
• Your life isn't ⬆️ there, Elio. It's down here.

Commander

• My 🧒, are you prepared to become the greatest war machine in the universe?
• I!
• Is.
• Will.
• [as Glordon laughs] What is that unholy sound?! 🛑!
• My 🧒 cannot join those weaklings.
• I may not always understand you, but I still ❤️ you.

Dialogue

Helene Leroux: I don't know if this is boundary testing or 🛌 regression or 😑! [shows him the feeling chart] Which 1️⃣ of these (emotions) is you?

John Joven: 🤷, but I 🤔 that 1️⃣ is you. [points to the overwhelmed emption]

Helene Leroux: [squeals in frustration] 👍 , I've got 1️⃣ last 📅, so I need you to sit here and not move or 🗣️ 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