New ONWARD Trailer Enjoy the new ONWARD trailer! The film, written and directed by Dan Scanlon (Monsters University), stars the voice talents of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Octavia Spencer. ONWARD will be released in theaters on March 6, 2020. Set in a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers, Ian and Barley Lightfoot, go on an journey to discover if there is still a little magic left out there in order to spend one last day with their father, who died when they were too young to remember him.