Ice Age (live action film)

Ice Age is a upcoming 2022 American family adventure buddy comedy directed by Matthew Vaughn and screenplay by Jane Goldman and Vaughn. Produced by Skydance Media and Marv Films as its first feature film, it was released by 20th Century Fox on April 1, 2022. The film stars of Devon Bostick, Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson, Wyatt and Dylan Walters, Chris Wedge and Bobby Cannavale.

Plot
A saber-toothed squirrel (known as Scrat) is trying to find a place to store his prized acorn. Eventually, as he tries to stomp it into the ground, he causes a large crack in the ground that extends for miles and miles and sets off a large avalanche. He barely escapes, but finds himself stepped on by a herd of prehistoric animals. The animals are trying to avoid the ice age by migrating south. Sid, a clumsy ground sloth left behind by his family, decides to move on by himself but is attacked by two Brontops whom he angered by ruining their meal. Sid is soon saved by Manny, an agitated woolly mammoth who fights them off and is heading north. Not wanting to be alone and unprotected, Sid follows Manny. Meanwhile, Soto, the leader of a saber-toothed cat pack, wants revenge on a group of humans for killing half of his pack, by eating the chief's baby son, Roshan, alive. Soto leads a raid on the human camp, during which Roshan's mother is separated from the rest and jumps down a waterfall when cornered by Soto's lieutenant, Diego. For his failure, Diego is sent to find and retrieve the baby.

Later, Sid and Manny spot Roshan and his mother near the lake, having survived her plunge. The mother only has enough strength to entrust her baby to Manny before she disappears into the water. After much persuasion by Sid, they decide to return Roshan, but when they reach the human settlement, they find it deserted. They meet up with Diego, who convinces the pair to let him help by tracking the humans. The four travel on, with Diego secretly leading them to his pack for an ambush.

After encountering several misadventures on their way, they reach a cave with several cave paintings made by humans. There Sid and Diego learn about Manny's past and his previous interactions with the human hunters, in which his wife and child were killed, leaving Manny a depressed loner. Later, Manny, Sid, Diego and Roshan almost reach their destination—Half-Peak, but encounter a river of lava. Manny and Sid, along with Roshan, make it across safely, but Diego freezes, about to fall into the lava. Manny saves him, narrowly missing certain death by falling into the lava himself. The herd takes a break for the night, and Roshan takes his first walking steps towards Diego, who starts to change his mind about his mission.

The next day, the herd approaches the ambush, causing Diego—now full of respect for Manny for saving his life—to change his mind and confess to Manny and Sid about the ambush. As the pair turn hostile towards him, Diego asks for their trust, and tries to foil the attack. The herd battles Soto's pack, but despite their efforts, Soto's associates manage to corner Manny. As Soto closes in for the kill on Manny, Diego sacrifices himself by jumping in the way and is injured as a result. Manny then knocks a distracted Soto into a rock wall, causing several sharp icicles to fall onto Soto, killing him. Horrified, the rest of the pack retreat. Manny and Sid mourn for Diego's injury, which they believe is fatal, and continue their journey without him.

Soon, Manny and Sid manage to return Roshan to his tribe, and to their surprise, Diego manages to rejoin them, in time to see the baby leave. The group then begin to head off to warmer climates.

20,000 years later, Scrat, frozen in ice, ends up on the shores of a tropical island. As the ice slowly melts, the acorn is washed away. Scrat then finds a coconut and tries stomp it into the ground, only to mistakenly trigger a volcanic eruption.

Voice cast

 * Devon Bostick as Manny, a woolly mammoth
 * Billy Crudup as Sid, a giant ground sloth
 * Woody Harrelson as Diego, a Smilodon
 * Chris Wedge as Scrat, a "saber-toothed" squirrel
 * Bobby Cannavale as Soto, a Smilodon
 * Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Zeke, a Smilodon
 * Michael Peña as Oscar, a Smilodon
 * Zachary Gordon as Lenny, a Homotherium
 * Diego Luna as Dab, a Dodo and Dodos, a steals of Watermelon
 * Nat Wolff as Carl, a Brontops
 * Alex Wolff as Frank, a Brontops
 * Marisa Tomei as Rachel, a female giant ground sloth
 * Emily Mortimer as Jennifer, a female giant ground sloth
 * Megan Mullally as Sylvia, a female giant ground sloth

Live-Action cast

 * Wyatt and Dylan Walters as Roshan, a human infant
 * Josh Hutcherson as Runar, a human infant
 * Zoey Deutch as Nadia, a human infant
 * Jason Statham as Hunter Humans, a kills of Smilodon, and Homotherium
 * Sam Rockwell as Hunter Humans, a kills of Smilodon, and Homotherium
 * Ben Affleck as Hunter Humans, a kills of Smilodon, and Homotherium
 * Craig Bierko as Hunter Humans, a kills of Smilodon, and Homotherium