Spirit Untamed Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

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Last modified: Jul. 17, 2021

Spirit Untamed

Release Date: Friday, June 4, 2021 Theaters

An epic adventure about a headstrong girl longing for a place to belong who discovers a kindred spirit when her life intersects with a wild horse, Spirit Untamed is the next chapter in the beloved story from DreamWorks Animation.

Director: Elaine Bogan • Ennio Torresan

Starring: Eiza González • Jake Gyllenhaal • McKenna Grace • Isabela Merced • Walton Goggins

PG Family N/A

3.41 / 5.0

79% WILL SEE 21% WON'T SEE

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Plot – What's the story about?

Plot: Lucky Prescott (Isabela Merced, Dora and the Lost City of Gold) never really knew her late mother, Milagro Navarro (Eiza González, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw), a fearless horse-riding stunt performer from Miradero, a small town on the edge of the wide-open frontier.

Like her mother, Lucky isn’t exactly a fan of rules and restrictions, which has caused her Aunt Cora (Academy Award® winner Julianne Moore) no small amount of worry. Lucky has grown up in an East Coast city under Cora’s watchful eye, but when Lucky presses her own luck with one too many risky escapades, Cora picks up stakes and moves them both back with Lucky’s father, Jim (Oscar® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal), in Miradero.

Lucky is decidedly unimpressed with the sleepy little town. She has a change of heart when she meets Spirit, a wild Mustang who shares her independent streak, and befriends two local horseback riders, Abigail Stone (Mckenna Grace, Captain Marvel) and Pru Granger (Marsai Martin, Little). Pru’s father, stable owner Al Granger (Emmy winner Andre Braugher, Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine), is the best friend of Lucky’s father.

When a heartless horse wrangler (Emmy nominee Walton Goggins, FX’s Justified) and his team plan to capture Spirit and his herd and auction them off to a life of captivity and hard labor, Lucky enlists her new friends and bravely embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to rescue the horse who has given her freedom and a sense of purpose, and has helped Lucky discover a connection to her mother’s legacy and to her Mexican heritage that she never expected.

Family Animated Spin-off Kids

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Who stars in Spirit Untamed – Cast List

Eiza González
... Milagro Navarro (voice)

Fountain of Youth, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Jake Gyllenhaal
... Jim Prescott (voice)

The Bride!, Remain
McKenna Grace
... Abigail Stone (voice)

Scream 7, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
I
Isabela Merced
... Lucky Prescott (voice)

Superman, Alien: Romulus
W
Walton Goggins
Lincoln, Django Unchained
Julianne Moore
... Aunt Cora (voice)

Echo Valley, Crazy, Stupid, Love
G
Gary A. Hecker
... Horse Vocals (voice)
M
Marsai Martin
... Pru Granger (voice)

PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, G20
A
Andre Braugher
... Al Granger (voice)

Stephen King's The Mist, Poseidon

Who is making Spirit Untamed – Crew List

Director: Elaine Bogan
Ennio Torresan
Screenwriters: —
Producer: Karen Foster

Studios: Universal Pictures
Production Company: DreamWorks Animation

Production – What we know about the Spirit Untamed

Key Facts

Spirit Untamed is the next chapter in DreamWorks Animation’s beloved franchise that began with the 2002 Oscar-nominated film Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron and includes an Emmy-winning TV series. The film is directed by Elaine Bogan (Netflix and DreamWorks Animation Television’s Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia) and is produced by Karen Foster (co-producer, How to Train Your Dragon). The film’s co-director is Ennio Torresan (head of story, The Boss Baby), and the film’s score is by composer Amie Doherty (4/3/2021).
Deadline reports (10/7/19) the film will be done via lower cost production model with a third-party animation studio, similar to 2017’s Captain Underpants.
Based on the animated Netflix series created by Aury Wallington. The series was inspired by the original 2002 DreamWorks Animation film, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron ($122.5M global box office).