Sony Pictures Animation’s 'Goat' Bangs Out Its Cast, Including Caleb McLaughlin, Producer Stephen Curry

The basketball film will also star Patton Oswalt and David Harbour

You don’t have to do laps up and down the court to get this information. Sony Pictures Animation screams back to theaters this February in synergy with NBA All Star Weekend with Goat, and they came to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival for a preview event at the Grande Salle of Annecy’s main Bonlieu Theater venue. Director Tyree Dillihay and producer Michelle Raimo Kouyate screened exclusive footage and announced the voice cast to the excited crowd.

The action-comedy co-directed by Adam Rosette stars Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin as Will, a small goat who is obsessed with roarball while living a downbeat life in an “urbanized jungle community” called Vineland. Will’s big dreams become reality when he gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play for his local team, the Thorns. They aren’t thrilled about their goat teammate, but Will is ready to establish his readiness for the team. Roarball is a “high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world”, modeled after basketball with the evolution appropriate for the all-animal world the story is set. It uses a special perforated hardball, suited to paws and claws, with a rule book accommodating two and four-legged movements.

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The film is produced by NBA champion point guard for the Golden State Warriors Stephen Curry and Erick Peyton of Unanimous Media. Turns out Curry, a two-time league MVPc is also starring in it, as giraffe Lenny Williamson. The rest of the cast includes McLaughlin’s Stranger Things co-star and Red Guardian of the New Avengers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe David Harbour as rhinoceros Archie Everhardt, Big Mouth creator and star Nick Kroll as komodo dragon Modo Olachenko, Bridgerton and Barbie star and Doctor Who guest star of Bethlehem Nicola Coughlan as ostrich Olivia Burke, The Princess and the Frog’s Jenifer Lewis as the Thorns’ tough-talking owner Florence Everson, who’s a pig, and Gabrielle Union as Jett Fillmore, a black jaguar who is the Thorns’ star player. A character whose voice actor was not announced was Mane Attraction, a powerful stallion and with an impressive shock of hair, who plays for the rival Magma team in the Inferno Lava Coast region. Patton Oswalt, lately of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, was announced to be in the film as well but his role was not disclosed. So maybe there’s a connection here.

Also executive producing Goat are Raimo Kouyate, Adam Rosenberg, and Rodney Rothman of Modern Magic. David Schulenburg co-produced, with Rick Mischel and Fonda Snyder as executive producers. We’re excited to bring together an all-star cast to voice the incredible characters in Goat,” Curry and Peyton said. “Goat is the kind of story we love to tell at Unanimous— full of heart, humor, and high-octane action that we hope audiences of all ages will cheer for.” Goat opens in theaters on February 13, 2026.

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Source: Deadline