Ahead of its February 19 release on Disney+, a brand-new trailer, key art and voice cast for Pixar Animation Studios’ new series Win or Lose has been released.
The first-ever original Pixar series features eight characters whose stories intertwine as they prepare for the championship softball game. From the insecure kids on the team to the helicopter parents to the lovesick umpire, Win or Lose has many characters that viewers will identify with.
Check out the new trailer for Win or Lose below:
In addition to the trailer, the voice cast for Win or Lose was released. The upcoming series features the voices of Will Forte, Rosie Foss, Josh Thomson, Milan Elizabeth Ray, Rosa Salazar, Dorien Watson, Izaac Wang, Chanel Stewart, Lil Rel Howery, Melissa Villaseñor, Jo Firestone, Flula Borg, Kyleigh Curran, Jaylin Fletcher, Erin Keif, Tom Law, Beck Nolan, Orion Tran and Rhea Seehorn.
About the series, Carrie Hobson, who wrote, directed and produced the series alongside Michael Yates said, “I played softball growing up. Inspired by that experience, we felt fast-pitch softball was the perfect backdrop for the show. There are so many facets to playing sports that I love—it can bring out the best and worst of a person, the calmest person can lose their temper. And when it comes to winning and losing, the consequences are nothing, yet they’re everything. We really felt like it was the best arena for the themes we loved.”
Highlighting the different perspectives was essential to Yates, and was born of everyday life working at Pixar.
Yates said, “Carrie and I were officemates on Toy Story 4. We were both story artists on the film, and we would talk about a lot of things going on in the film, as well as things going on in the world—current events, news. We would always have different reactions or different interpretations of the same meeting. One of us would say, ‘That went great!’ and the other would say, ‘No! It was terrible, what are you talking about?’ We realized that our own experiences that we bring to the table change our perception of an event. We wanted to tell a story that illustrated all of that.”