DreamWorks Animation Gets Kraken With New 'Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken' Trailer

The film releases on June 30

Did you know that DreamWorks Animation’s next film is coming out in just a few weeks, against Indiana Jones, and was only publicly announced in March? That’s Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken, and on Tuesday, the film’s second trailer was released, set to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

The film is about shy teenager Ruby Gillman, voiced by Lana Condor, who discovers that she’s part of a legendary royal family of sea krakens and that she is destined to take down the evil mermaids. Of course, that’s a lot to take in, her anxiety goes into overdrive and she might just have a panic attack. 16-year-old Ruby is described as sweet, awkward, and desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she ultimately feels unseen and invisible. She’s got a crush on the skater boy she’s tutoring, Connor, voiced by Jaboukie Young-White who only likes her for very shallow reasons. Her mom, the over-protective Flo, voiced by Toni Collette, has forbidden Ruby from ever getting in the water, even when that means not going to the beach with the popular kids. When she defies it, she learns her lineage: She is of the warrior Kraken queens and is in line to be Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas from her grandmother.

This version of Kraken are the oceans’ sworn protectors against the Mermaids in a battle that’s gone on for millennia. The Mermaids are called vain and power-hungry, and it seems that one of Oceanside High’s newest and very quickly popular students, Chelsea, voiced by Schitt’s Creek’s Annie Murphy, is a mermaid, and thus Ruby must step up and protect her family.

Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken comes from DreamWorks Animation fresh off of Puss In Boots: The Last Wish. Additional cast includes Will Forte, Nicole Byer, Liza Koshy, Ramona Young, Colman Domingo, Sam Richardson, and Blue Chapman, Eduardo Franco, and Echo Kellum. It is directed by Kirk DeMicco and produced by Kelly Cooney Cilella, with Faryn Pearl serving as co-director, and will be released in theaters on June 30, 2023, directly up against Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Watch the trailer below.