Elios End-Credits Teaser: Pixars Next Film Hoppers - A Wild Ride for Animal Lovers

Pixar's latest film, Elio, is a cosmic tale of friendship that will leave you feeling warm and fuzzy inside. The film follows 11-year-old orphan Elio Solís (voiced by Yonas Kibreab), whose dreams come true when he's abducted by aliens and finds himself in the Communiverse, a group of the universe's greatest alien minds. Elio quickly makes a friend in alien Glordon (voiced by Remy Edgerly) and is offered the chance to be Earth's ambassador to the Communiverse. However, he realizes that his true place is on Earth with his Aunt Olga (voiced by Zoe Saldaña). But Elio hasn't totally lost contact with his alien friends. The mid-credits scene shows Elio and his new (human) friend Bryce (voiced by Dylan Gilmer) fiddling with their ham radios on the beach. Elio is wearing Masters of Ham gear, suggesting he's found even more friends in the ham radio community. As they work with the radios, they manage to contact Glordon, proving their friendship is alive and well. But the real tease comes at the very end of the credits, with a tag that hints at Pixar's next film, Hoppers. In this end tag, a lizard repeatedly types a lizard emoji into a phone, with a text-to-speech reader saying "lizard" with each push of a button. Hoppers is set to hit theaters on March 6, 2026, and it looks like it will be a wild ride. Scientists have found a way to "hop" their consciousnesses into lifelike animal bodies in order to communicate with animals. Animal lover Mabel (voiced by Piper Curda) decides to use this technology to hop into a beaver body and try to get animals to help stop Mayor Jerry's (voiced by Jon Hamm) environmentally destructive construction project. "It's kind of like Avatar, but cuter," Pixar's chief creative officer Pete Docter told journalists at a June 5 presentation in New York City. During the presentation, Docter also screened footage of Hoppers, which featured a scene where Mabel and the Elio end tag's lizard try to communicate with Mayor Jerry using text-to-speech. Looks like we can expect a lot more animal emojis in Hoppers. Elio is now in theaters, and if you haven't seen it yet, you're missing out on a truly heartwarming experience. And don't forget to stick around for the end-credits scene, as it teases what's to come in Pixar's next feature film.