


Ferdinand follows them anyway, but is stung by a bee and panics, accidentally destroying the town square. Juan determines that Ferdinand looks too scary to take along to the annual Flower Festival, as in previous years. Two years later, Ferdinand has grown into an enormous but still gentle bull. Ferdinand runs away from Casa del Toro, and he winds up on a flower farm owned by Juan and his daughter Nina, who adopt him. Raf does not come back from the ring, and Valiente’s father explains that Raf was soft, and that the soft ones go down. Ferdinand's father Raf is picked, so Valiente crushes Ferdinand's favorite flower in retaliation. A matador arrives, and the calves' fathers fight to impress him. Ferdinand is a pacifist and loves flowers, and is bullied by the other calves Valiente, Guapo, and Bones. In Spain, young Ferdinand lives with other calves and bulls at Señor Moreno's "Casa del Toro", where bulls are trained for bullfighting. It was also the last film by Blue Sky Studios to be nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe, as the studio was shut down in April 2021. Ferdinand received a nomination for Best Animated Feature at the 90th Academy Awards (losing against Coco) while also receiving nominations for Best Animated Feature Film (also lost against Coco) and Best Original Song (" Home") at the 75th Golden Globe Awards (losing against This Is Me). It was a box office bomb at the North American box office, but fared better internationally, grossing $296 million worldwide against a production budget of $111 million. The story, written by Ron Burch, David Kidd, and Don Rhymer, follows a gentle pacifist bull named Ferdinand who refuses to participate in bullfighting but is forced back into the arena where his beliefs are challenged when he faces off against the world's greatest bullfighter.įerdinand premiered on Decemin Los Angeles, and was theatrically released in the United States on Decemin 3D and 2D formats and received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and audiences. The music for the film was composed by John Powell, making it his eighth and final collaboration with Blue Sky before it shut down on April 10, 2021. The film features an ensemble voice cast that includes John Cena, Kate McKinnon, Bobby Cannavale, Peyton Manning, Anthony Anderson, David Tennant, Tim Nordquist, Lily Day, Juanes, Jerrod Carmichael, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Raúl Esparza, Gina Rodriguez, Daveed Diggs, Gabriel Iglesias, Flula Borg, Boris Kodjoe, and Sally Phillips. Baird, Tim Federle, and Brad Copeland, and directed by Carlos Saldanha. The film, a loose remake of Ferdinand the Bull, and loosely based on Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson's 1936 children's book The Story of Ferdinand, was written by Robert L. Ferdinand is a 2017 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
