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Jared Bush is a powerhouse screenwriter, director, and producer at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He joined Disney in 2011 and quickly became a key architect of their modern...
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Jun 12, 1974 (51)
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Jared Bush is a powerhouse screenwriter, director, and producer at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He joined Disney in 2011 and quickly became a key architect of their modern renaissance. He gained massive acclaim for co-directing and writing the original Zootopia (2016) and writing the screenplay for Moana (2016). In 2021, he directed and wrote the global phenomenon Encanto, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. In September 2024, he was named the Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios, overseeing the creative output of the entire studio. He returns to the director's chair (alongside Byron Howard) for the highly anticipated Zootopia 2 in 2025.
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Don Lake
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Bonnie Hunt
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Byron Howard
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Zootopia 2 • Zootopia
Idris Elba
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Nate Torrence
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Zootopia 2 • Zootopia
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Zootopia 2 • Zootopia
Jul 10, 2026
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Leaving her island for the first time, young Moana embarks on an epic seafaring adventure to restore prosperity to her people.
Nov 28, 2025
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Detectives Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile who turns the mammal metropolis of Zootopia upside down. Testing their growing partnership like never before, they go under cover in new parts of town to crack the case.
Mar 4, 2016
Netflix
Set in a modern metropolis populated entirely by anthropomorphic animals, Zootopia follows Judy Hopps, a rookie bunny police officer determined to prove herself in a city where predators and prey live side by side. When a mysterious case threatens the fragile harmony of the city, Judy teams up with Nick Wilde, a fast-talking con artist fox. Together, they uncover a conspiracy that challenges everything they believe about their world, prejudice, and themselves.