Disney announced at the D23 Brazil Expo that ‘Ice Age 6’ is officially in production.
They stated, “Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary and Simon Pegg return for an all-new big screen adventure.” A video of the announcement was shared on X.
John Leguizamo, who voiced Sid in the animation, previously explained how he developed Sid’s voice.
“‘I go… I don’t want to do my voice. I want to do a voice. I’m an actor.’ So, I did a Southern voice for the sloth ’cause he’s slow. Then I went a little more ghetto one. And he goes, ‘Nah.’ Then I got Discovery Channel footage, and I saw that sloths stored food in their cheek pouches, and they – it would ferment, and they’d get drunk.”
“So, I started eating a sandwich and I put it in my cheek pouches, and I walked around the house waiting for it to ferment, and it didn’t,” Leguizamo continued. “But what happened was then I got slushy – slushy in my mouth. And I called the director [and said in the voice of Sid the sloth] ‘Chris, guess who this is?’ And he was like, ‘I have no idea.’ ‘Sid the sloth!’ And that’s how did the voice.”
The ‘Ice Age’ movies began in 2002 and became one of the leading breakout animated franchises for 20th Century Fox. The first ‘Ice Age’ film followed Manny, Sid, and Diego on a quest to return a human baby to his father on the brink of an ice age.
The series would continue through 4 more sequels – ‘Ice Age: The Meltdown’ (2006), ‘Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs’ (2009), ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’ (2012), ‘Ice Age: Collision Course’ (2016) – one 2022 spinoff following the Disney-Fox merger (The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild), and many shorts featuring series mascot Scat the Squirrel (on his never-ending quest to find an acorn in the Ice Age) and Sid the Sloth (Leguizamo), as well as two television specials.
