Nearly a decade after becoming both a box office and critical hit \u2014 and going on to win an Oscar<\/a> \u2014 Zootopia is back.<\/p>\n Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman return for the sequel<\/a> as detectives Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde, who this time around are sent on a make-or-break mission chasing after mysterious pit viper Gary De\u2019Snake (voiced by Ke Huy Quan) as his arrival disrupts the balance of the metropolis.<\/p>\n More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI may have known that this was coming for a really long time, but I was chomping at the bit, as it were, to get back into the studio,\u201d Goodwin told The Hollywood Reporter at the L.A. premiere of Zootopia 2 on Thursday, after the original came out in 2016. \u201cI would call them every year and I\u2019d be like, \u2018Is this the year?\u2019 And they\u2019d be like, \u2018We\u2019re really busy with a lot of things, just hold on tight.\u2019 So I was waiting and waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n The star was also quick to add, \u201cI\u2019m putting everything out there trying to manifest a number three, after a much shorter break. All we\u2019ve got to do is get everyone in the world to go see the movie, it\u2019s not a lot to ask.\u201d<\/p>\n Jared Bush (who also serves as chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation) and Byron Howard co-directed the sequel after also being involved in the first film, and they too have their eyes on doing more with the franchise.<\/p>\n With Zootopia 2 being \u201cthe biggest, most complex movie we\u2019ve ever done at Disney Animation in 100 years, in the whole history of the studio,\u201d as Howard revealed, Bush added that Judy and Nick \u201care our favorite characters.\u201d He continued, \u201cIf it goes well, we would spend the rest of our careers in the world of Zootopia. It\u2019s the most fun place in the world and there\u2019s so much left to explore. We\u2019ve actually only seen one city on one continent on one planet. There\u2019s quite a lot more stories to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n If there\u2019s more to come, there is also hope that Goodwin and Bateman can actually record their lines together, after the actress teased that for the last two movies \u201cthey have to separate us, it\u2019s a whole thing\u201d because \u201cI get the giggles really, really, really badly. I waste everyone\u2019s time. He can\u2019t not make me laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n But, she added, \u201cThey built these booths where they are going to be able to put us, if we can get a third one, they can put us in the same space and I won\u2019t ruin all the takes because if I\u2019m laughing they can isolate that sound out. We have to do this just so I can experience it and not just have to wonder what it is he did in his recording.\u201d<\/p>\n The sequel also features Shakira, Tommy Chong and Nate Torrence as returning voices, with newcomers including Quan, Fortune Feimster, Patrick Warburton, Quinta Brunson, Wilmer Valderrama, Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song. Howard emphasized that the film has the biggest speaking cast of any Disney movie ever, with over 70 speaking roles \u2014 including many alums from past Walt Disney Animation films like Frozen and Encanto.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that they would bring all the voices, pretty much, of all the movies they\u2019ve done before and say, \u2018Hey, let\u2019s attach them to this thing,\u2019 was actually very beautiful,\u201d said Valderrama, who worked on 2021\u2019s Encanto.<\/p>\n Feimster, who plays beaver Nibbles Maplestick, also admitted that \u201cwhen you\u2019re in the booth you honestly have no idea what it\u2019s going to be. I joked to Ginnifer I had no idea that my character was like this main part of the movie, I really did not know. I knew it was like a character you would see in the movie several times but when the four characters were like walking down the road [in the promo] I was like, \u2018Oh my god, I\u2019m like a main part!\u2019 I truly had no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n Zootopia 2 hits theaters<\/a> Nov. 26.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nearly a decade after becoming both a box office and critical hit \u2014 and going on to win an Oscar \u2014 Zootopia is back. 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