A new trailer for The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild goes back to The Lost World. Ice Age is the animated franchise started at Fox that spawned five movies, as well as a number of shorts and specials. The series frequently focuses on a number of creatures from around the Ice Age time period who travel the landscape in search of love, friendship, and a better place to live (or sometimes just an acorn). The new film sees the return of voice actor Simon Pegg as Buck Wild, the one-eyed, dinosaur-hunting weasel who first appeared in the series with Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
Disney shut down Blue Sky Studios when they acquired Fox, but that hasn’t stopped the series from continuing on at the House of Mouse. Along with starring many of the franchise’s most beloved characters, the new film also sees series producer John C. Donkin take on directing duties for the first time. The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild is also co-written by Jim Hecht, who penned Ice Age: The Meltdown, which helps give some credence to the new endeavor.
Now, Buck is back again, with Disney releasing a new trailer showing the weasel headlining his own adventure. The new film will continue the “hilarious escapades of the sub-zero heroes as they create more prehistoric pandemonium,” and the story will focus on the possum brothers Crash and Eddie trapped inside the massive Lost World cave and facing off against a horde of dinosaurs. Thankfully, Buck Wild comes to their rescue to save them from “dinosaur domination.” Check out the trailer below:
Pegg has become a Hollywood mainstay in the last few decades, starring in Edgar Wright’s “Cornetto Trilogy” and picking up roles in a number of high-profile projects along the way. Pegg stars as Scotty in the Kelvin-timeline Star Trek films and lends his voice to a number of animated projects outside of Ice Age, including Phineas and Ferb, The Boxtrolls, Archer, and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Pegg has also become a main player in the Mission: Impossible franchise, starring as IMF agent Benji Dunn, who will again appear in the next two sequels alongside Tom Cruise.
The Ice Age series has been a popular franchise with kids and one that’s ironically stood the test of time, having lasted for nearly two decades at this point. With new characters and voices, including Pegg’s, the series has a good shot of lasting another decade or longer. With a trove of storylines to explore throughout the era and all manner of fun, scary, and comedic creatures to bring to life, the Ice Age setting is the perfect playground for an animated franchise like this. The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild will look to prove that the change of ownership doesn’t spell the end of an era.
