20th Century Studios has unveiled the first trailer for Ice Age: Boiling Point, the first Ice Age film in more than a decade, which is set to open next February.
In footage unveiled at Las Vegas on Thursday, set against an icy prehistoric landscape, we see that Scrat, the franchise’s iconic squirrel, has had a baby. He fights with it over an acorn before giving it a baby acorn, which it turns into a pacifier.
We then realize there’s an active volcano in the background, and suddenly, lava is everywhere, leaving Scrat and child to hop from one ice floe to another in hopes of surviving.
Franchise veterans Ray Romano, Denis Leary, and Queen Latifah were on hand tonight to promote the film, with Romano joking up top, “Trump hasn’t landed yet, so relax…I don’t know what I’m talking about.”
In comparison the franchise, Romano said, “The real Ice Age didn’t last this long. When we did Ice Age 1, I know I wasn’t wearing compression socks or reading glasses.” (In fact, Leary noted, Romano has just become a grandfather.)
Latifah said the new finds our lead characters — a group of animals navigating the Ice Age — at “a little fork in the road in their lives.”
The group said they’ll be taking a trip to a lost world, where treacherous new obstacles, including the volcano, wait for them.
The animated adventure comedy series Ice Age launched with a 2002 film directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, which was a commercial hit at over $383M worldwide. The property originated at the 21st Century Fox-owned animation banner Blue Sky Studios, with Disney taking control following its 2019 acquisition of Fox.
Following the original Ice Age came four sequels: Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016). The films have grossed more than $3.2 billion worldwide, all told.
Ice Age: Boiling Point will also see the return of voice actors John Leguizamo and Simon Pegg. It will be the first theatrical Ice Age film to not be produced by Blue Sky Studios, following its closure in April 2021. Lori Forte and Patrick Worlock are the pic’s producers.
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