Planes Origins: Dusty Crophopper

Planes Origins: Dusty Crophopper is a upcoming 2019 American 3D computer-animated sports comedy-adventure film produced by Disneytoon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film serves as an alternate version of Planes combined with its sequel Planes: Fire & Rescue and short Vitaminamulch: Air Spectacular. It is also a film part of the Disney Reborn Multiverse. Despite not being produced by Pixar Animation Studios, the film was co-written and executive produced by Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios' then-chief creative officer John Lasseter. The film stars Dane Cook reprising his voice role as Dusty Crophopper, while it co-stars Danny Mann, Stacy Keach, Brad Garrett, Teri Hatcher, Roger Craig Smith, John Cleese, Carlos Alazraqui, Curtis Armstrong, Hal Holbrook, Priyanka Chopra, Julie Louis-Dreyfus, Gabriel Iglesias, Steve Schirripa, Regina King, Wes Studi, Julie Bowen, John Michael Higgins, and Ed Harris.

Synopsis
When crop duster Dusty Crophopper from Propwash Junction dreams of becoming a racer in the Wings Around the Globe rally, he must learn to believe in himself and not to give up. On his way, he gets help from his mentor Skipper Riley. However, when his engine is damaged and may never race again, he must shift gears and is launched into the world of wildfire air attack. Dusty joins forces with veteran fire and rescue helicopter Blade Ranger and his courageous air attack team, including spirited super scooper Lil' Dipper, heavy-lift helicopter Windlifter, ex-military transport Cabbie and a lively bunch of brave all-terrain vehicles known as The Smokejumpers. Together, the fearless team battles a massive wildfire, and Dusty learns what it takes to become a true hero.

Plot
Dusty Crophopper is a crop duster plane who works at a cornfield and practices aerobatic maneuvers in his spare time, dreaming of becoming a racer. His dreams are scorned by his boss, Leadbottom, and his forklift/mechanic friend, Dottie. However, he is supported by his fuel truck friend, Chug. Dusty and Chug train for qualifiers for the upcoming Wings Across the Globe race. On the night before the qualifiers, Dusty asks an elderly and reclusive navy war plane named Skipper Riley to teach him how to fly well, but Skipper refuses. Dusty enters the qualifiers, and although the audience mocks him for being a cropduster, he manages to wow them by his well-practiced flight maneuvers; but he barely makes it into the race (he learns the next day that a racer he came in behind in the qualifiers had been disqualified for using nitromethane).

Later in the morning, Skipper visits Dusty and tries to talk him out of racing, but when Dusty explains he wants to prove he's more than just a crop duster, Skipper decides to mentor Dusty on his speed and agility. While in the midst of his training, Dusty admits that he has a fear of heights. Despite this, their training continues, and when it is complete, Dusty heads off to the meeting of the race at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. There he befriends an eccentric but loyal Mexican race plane named El Chupacabra, who eventually falls in love with a beautiful French-Canadian racer named Rochelle, who shows no interest in him. Dusty then makes a rival of the arrogant 3-time-winner plane Ripslinger, who rudely dismisses him as being only a crop duster. He also falls in love with an Indian racer plane named Ishani, who becomes supportive of him. During the first leg of the race from New York to Iceland, Dusty's refusal to fly high causes him to finish in last place.

During the second leg of the race to Germany, Dusty shows good sportsmanship by saving another racer, Bulldog, from crashing when the British racer's eyes get blinded by oil when his left propeller malfunctions, winning Bulldog's respect but finishing last again.

After the third leg of the race to Agra in India, Ishani invites Dusty to fly around the Taj Mahal and advises him to fly low through the Himalayas by following some railroad tracks. However, after encountering a tunnel and barely being able to fly through it and narrowly avoiding a train, Dusty realizes he is in first place after arriving in Upper Mustang in Nepal, but also that Ishani deliberately gave him bad advice to get a new propeller from Ripslinger, and he shuns her. As the race continues towards Shanghai, Dusty manages to maintain his lead. In Shanghai, Dusty manages to help El Chupacabra win over Rochelle with a romantic song.

In the sixth leg of the race across the Pacific Ocean, Ripslinger's henchmen, Ned and Zed, under orders from Ripslinger, sabotage Dusty's navigation antenna. Lost and low on fuel, Dusty miraculously comes across the USS Flysenhower (a reference to the real-life carrier) which allows him to land and refuel. While on the carrier, Dusty sees a hall of fame set up for Skipper's squadron but discovers that Skipper only flew one mission, which contradicts his previous reputation as a veteran of many battles. He is then forced to take off to try and beat an oncoming storm.

Dusty gets distracted from flying by his thoughts about Skipper and ends up crashing into the ocean but is eventually rescued. He is flown to Mexico to his friends but he is severely damaged and may never fly again. Skipper confesses to Dusty that he did indeed fly only one mission in the Pacific theatre, where his entire squad of trainees was killed after coaxing him to lead an attack on the Japanese Navy (they were supposed to have done a routine patrol). Skipper was the only survivor, but torn by his guilt, he never trained another plane or flew again. Demoralized and heartbroken, Dusty begins to consider dropping out of the race but is encouraged by his friends, Bulldog, Ishani, and many of his newfound fans to continue, and they all donate parts to have Dusty repaired.

In the seventh leg, back to New York, with a change of heart and morale restored, Dusty becomes determined to continue in the race, but Ripslinger still won't give up and plots to put an end to Dusty's competing in the race "once and for all". He and his goons attack Dusty but are thwarted by Skipper, who has overcome his guilt and come to help Dusty. When trying to catch up with Ripslinger, Dusty conquers his fear of heights when his engine starts losing power, forcing him to ride the jetstream. Both he and Ripslinger make it to the finish line in New York; and when it looks like Ripslinger will win, Dusty takes advantage of Rip's leaning for the cameras and manages to fly above him and win the race while Ripslinger crashes into some portable toilets. Dusty is congratulated by his friends and fans, and Skipper thanks him for giving him the confidence to fly again. Skipper rejoins the navy briefly in the company of Dusty and they take an honorary flight together.

Since winning the Wings Around the Globe race in the first film, Dusty Crophopper has a successful career as a racer. Unfortunately, his engine's gearbox becomes damaged because Dusty routinely operates the engine beyond its design limits. With that particular model of gearbox now out of production and none available anywhere, Dusty's mechanic Dottie fits a warning light to his control panel to ensure he doesn't damage his gearbox any further. No longer able to race and faced with the possibility of returning to his old job as a crop-duster, Dusty goes on a defiant flight and tests his limits. In doing so, Dusty exceeds his limits and makes a forced landing at Propwash Junction airport, causing a fire.

The residents put out the fire with some difficulty, but the accident leads government inspector Ryker to condemn the airport for inadequate firefighting personnel. Aggrieved at his carelessness, Dusty offers to undergo training to be certified as a firefighter to meet the necessary regulations to reopen the airport. To that end, Dusty travels to Piston Peak National Park where he meets a fire and rescue crew under the command of a helicopter named Blade Ranger. The leader of an efficient unit, Blade is initially unimpressed by the small newcomer and Dusty's training proves to be a difficult challenge.

Maru, the team's mechanic, replaces Dusty's original undercarriage with two pontoons fitted with retractable undercarriage wheels for his new role as a firefighter. During training, Dusty learns that Blade was formerly an actor who played a police helicopter on the TV series CHoPs. Later, Dusty is devastated by a call from his friends at Propwash Junction noting that all attempts at finding a replacement gearbox have failed and that his racing career is over.

Lightning in a thunderstorm over a forest near Piston Peak starts several spot fires which unite into a serious forest fire. The team fights it and seem to have extinguished it, but later, during the grand reopening of the park's lodge, visiting VIPs fly too low and make air eddies which blow embers about, creating a larger fire, and thereby forcing the need for an evacuation.

A depressed Dusty's education in the midst of the large fire falters to Blade's frustration and things come to a head when Dusty makes a forced landing in a river during a fire dispatch and is swept through the rapids with Blade trying to extract him. Eventually, the pair make it to land, and Dusty confesses his physical disability, to which Blade advises Dusty not to give up. They shelter in an abandoned mine while the fire passes. The situation is complicated in that Blade also is damaged from protecting Dusty in the fire, and is temporarily grounded for repairs. While Blade is recuperating, Dusty learns from Maru that Blade's co-star Nick Lopez from CHoPs was killed during a stunt gone wrong on set that Blade was helpless to stop, so he decided to become a firefighter to save lives for real.

The national park's superintendent, Cad Spinner, selfishly diverts all the water supply to his lodge's roof sprinklers to prevent the lodge from burning, and so prevents the firefighters from making fire retardant for their own duties. With only their pre-existing tank loads, the firefighters manage to help the evacuees escape the fire while Dusty is alerted that two elderly campers named Harvey and Winnie, that he met earlier, are trapped on a burning bridge deep in the fire zone. He races to the scene and is forced to push his engine to the maximum to climb vertically up a waterfall to refill his water tanks to drop water to save the campers, as the only other surface water near is a river too shallow and twisty and rocky for him to scoop from. Meanwhile, Blade shows up and assists Harvey and Winnie by holding up the bridge. Dusty successfully drops water and extinguishes the fire, allowing the campers to escape just before the bridge collapses, but his overstressed gearbox fails completely and his engine stalls. He tries to glide through the trees to make a safe landing, but one of his pontoons hits one of the trees and he crashes.

Unconscious, Dusty is airlifted back to base where he wakes up five days later to find that ranger Jammer is now in charge of the park, to much delight. Maru tells him that not only has his structure been fully repaired; he has built a superior, custom-refurbished gearbox for his engine to allow full performance once again. Impressed at Dusty's skill and heroism, Blade certifies him as a firefighter. Propwash Junction is reopened with Dusty assuming his duty as a firefighter, celebrated with an aerial show with his new colleagues from Piston Peak.

During the mid-credits scene, it is shown that Cad's misconduct resulted in his demotion and reassignment as a park ranger in Death Valley.

Voice cast
A crop duster, who dreams in becoming a racer in the Wings Around the Globe rally. He was inspired by the Air Tractor AT-502, Cessna 188 and the PZL-Mielec M-18 Dromader. A forklift, who is Skipper Riley's assistant. A Chance Vought F4U Corsair and Dusty's mentor. A fuel truck and one of Dusty's best friends. A forklift and Dusty's mechanic. A de Havilland DH.88 Comet. A custom-built carbon-fiber plane (most likely inspired by a modified North American P-51 Mustang for racing) and Dusty's rival. A racing plane, who tries to apply for the Wings Around the Globe competition. A Gee Bee Model R, who is Dusty's friend. A forklift mechanic at the Piston Peak Air Attack base. A Super Scooper, who is a fan of Dusty Crophopper. She is based on the Grumman G-21 Goose and CL-415 SuperScooper. A forklift, who assists in the Wings Around the Globe rally. A biplane and the owner of Vitaminamulch, who used to be Dusty's mentor in crop-dusting, and forces him to keep his old career. An old fire and rescue truck from Propwash Junction. A Pan-Asian champion from India, based on the AeroCad AeroCanard. A racing plane inspired by the Bay Super V, a conversion of the V-tail Model 35 Beechcraft Bonanza. Originally from Quebec, her flag and paint job are localized in 11 countries. In Australian and New Zealand, Rochelle is re-contextualized as a former Tasmanian mail delivery plane, and is voiced by Jessica Marais. In Italian, she is Azzurra, an Italian prototype plane voiced by Micaela Ramazzotti. Ripslinger's henchmen inspired by the Zivko Edge 540 and MX Aircraft MXS. A Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar retired from military service. The leader of The Smokejumpers, a team of ground vehicles which parachute into fire sites. A green four-wheel-drive with a roof rack. An RV and Winnie's husband. An RV and Harvey's wife. This would mark as Meara's posthumous role after her death in 2015. A Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane heavy-lift helicopter. A Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet. A Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet. A helicopter police officer, who formerly worked with Blade Ranger on CHoPS before he died during the show's production. A self-absorbed luxury sport utility vehicle whose sole concern was the grand reopening and protection of the park's luxurious lodge. A veteran fire-and-rescue helicopter. He used to play a police helicopter in CHoPs with Nick "Loop'n" Lopez but became a firefighter when Nick died. He is inspired by the AgustaWestland AW109, AgustaWestland AW139 and Bell 429 GlobalRanger. A red forklift, who gives reports to the firefighters of Piston Peak National Park about wildfires. A loyal and trustworthy tour bus at Piston Peak. A blue biplane and a inhabitant of Propwash Junction. The character's name was inspired by Schirripa's first name. A smokejumper equipped with a circular saw. A bulldozer and a smokejumper. A smokejumper equipped with a rake tool to clear brush and debris A smokejumper equipped with a skid-steer claw to clear fallen trees and brush.
 * Dane Cook as Dusty Crophopper.
 * Danny Mann as Sparky
 * Stacy Keach as Skipper Riley
 * Brad Garrett as Chug
 * Teri Hatcher as Dottie
 * John Cleese as Bulldog
 * Roger Craig Smith as:
 * Ripslinger
 * Fonzarelli (uncredited)
 * Carlos Alazraqui as El Chupacabra
 * Curtis Armstrong as Maru
 * Julie Bowen as Lil' Dipper
 * Sinbad as Roper
 * Cedric the Entertainer as Leadbottom
 * Hal Holbrook as Mayday
 * Priyanka Chopra as Ishani
 * Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Rochelle
 * Gabriel Iglesias as Ned and Zed
 * Dale Dye as Cabbie
 * Regina King as Dynamite
 * Fred Willard as Secretary of the Interior
 * Jerry Stiller as Harvey
 * Anna Meara as Winnie
 * Wes Studi as Windlifter
 * Val Kilmer as Bravo
 * Anthony Edwards as Echo
 * Oliver Kalkofe as Franz aka Von Fliegenhosen, a German Aerocar. As Kalkofe voiced the character as Franz, Idzi Dutkiewicz voiced Von Fliegenhosen.
 * Erik Estrada as Nick "Loop'n" Lopez
 * John Michael Higgins as Superintendent Cad Spinner
 * Ed Harris as Blade Ranger
 * Kari Wahlgren as Patch
 * Barry Corbin as Ol' Jammer
 * Steve Schirripa as Steve
 * Danny Pardo as Blackout
 * Bryan Callen as Avalanche
 * Corri English as Pinecone
 * Matt L. Jones as Drip

Additionally, several actors reprise their roles from the Planes franchise: Kevin Michael Richardson as Ryker, a transportation management safety truck with a roof-mounted watercannon for firefighting; Patrick Warburton as Pulaski, a structural firefighting fire truck with a roof-mounted watercannon for firefighting; Brad Paisley as Bubba, a pickup truck; René Auberjonois as André, a pitty concierge, who is Cad's minion and associate to keep the hotel busy; and Barney Harwood as Sky Cam 1, a red helicopter filming the race over Germany.

ESPN personality Colin Cowherd returns as Colin Cowling, a blimp, with Sky Sports F1 commentator David Croft voicing the character as "Lofty Crofty" in the UK, and leading sportscaster Brent Musburger returns as Brent Mustangburger, a 1964½ Ford Mustang.

Pixar voicing veteran John Ratzenberger has two cameos as Harland, a jet tug, and Brodi, a inhabitant of Propwash Junction. Several actors voiced WATG racers: Emerson Hatcher voices Yellow Bird, a racing plane inspired by the Zivko Edge 540 and MX Aircraft MXS; Richard Pearce as Little King, an Irish racing competitor; and Jonathan Adams as Judge Davis, a red-tailed P-51C Mustang, who also tries to apply for the racing competition. Additional voices are provided by Hatcher, Adams, Danny Mann, Roger Craig Smith, Carlos Alazraqui, Kari Wahlgren, Dave Wittenberg, Fred Tatasciore, Jeff Bennett, Mark Allan Stewart, Caroline Aaron, Ferrell Barron, Kate Micucci, Masasa Moyo, and directors Roberts Gannaway and Klay Hall.

Developement
During pre-production of The Lion King Reborn, one of the film's executive producers John Lasseter said that a new Planes film was in development since June of 2018. Although a planned third spin-off sequel for Planes has been cancelled due to DisneyToon Studios' defunct, Lasseter confirmed that it's a "super genius cut" of Planes and Planes: Fire & Rescue.

Casting
On December 2018, it was announced that a majority of voice actors and actresses would all return from Planes and Planes: Fire & Rescue including Dane Cook as Dusty Crophopper, Stacy Keach as Skipper Riley, Danny Mann as Sparky, Priyanka Chopra as Ishani, Brad Garrett as Chug, Teri Hatcher as Dottie, Cedric the Entertainer as Leadbottom, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Rochelle, Roger Craig Smith as Ripslinger, Gabriel Iglesias as Ned and Zed, John Cleese as Bulldog, Carlos Alazraqui as El Chupacabra, Val Kilmer as Bravo, Anthony Edwards as Echo, Sinbad as Roper, Oliver Kalkofe as Franz aka Von Fliegenhosen, Julie Bowen as Lil' Dipper, Curtis Armstrong as Maru, Ed Harris as Blade Ranger, Wes Studi as Windlifter, Dale Dye as Cabbie, Regina King as Dynamite, Corri English as Pinecone, Bryan Callen as Avalanche, Danny Pardo as Blackout, Matt L. Jones as Drip, Erik Estrada as Nick "Loop'n" Lopez, John Michael Higgins as Superintendent Cad Spinner, Barry Corbin as Ol' Jammer, Hal Holbrook as Mayday, Kevin Michael Richardson as Ryker, Patrick Warburton as Pulaski, Kari Wahlgren as Patch, and Steve Schirripa as Steve.

Music
On December 2018, it was announced that Mark Mancina would compose the score as he did from both previous films.