Disney drops new ‘Strange World’ trailer as Ben Shapiro slams studio’s so-called ‘gay agenda’

Disney’s upcoming animated feature “Strange World,” a sci-fi adventure film featuring an all-star cast of voices, is already making waves on social media.

Early Tuesday, Walt Disney Animation Studios shared a new clip of the film, which is set to open on Nov. 23. Hollywood powerhouses including Jake Gyllenhaal, Gabrielle Union, Lucy Liu, Dennis Quaid and Jaboukie Young-White lend their voice talent to the project.

The 60-second YouTube trailer shows members of the Clades family trapped in a storage closet trying to get their adorable three-legged dog, Legend, who’s outside, to unlock the door and set everyone free.

According to comments written on the video-sharing platform, most viewers seem to be excited about Disney’s massive Thanksgiving holiday weekend release — but not everyone is celebrating.

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro took to Twitter Tuesday morning to tell his nearly 5 million followers that the film is another example of Disney’s ongoing mission to “target” children by featuring LGBTQ characters — just like the studio did with the “Toy Story” spin-off, “Lightyear,” earlier this year.

“As Disney begins pushing ‘Strange World’ for next week’s release, here’s the reminder that their ‘not-at-all-secret gay agenda’ to target kids is ongoing,” Shapiro wrote on Twitter, sharing a Daily News story from June about the film, which will feature a gay teen romance — the first in an animated feature produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.

In a sequence of the film screened by the studio at the 2022 Annecy International Animation Film Festival France, Ethan (voiced by Young-White, who’s openly gay) appears shy in front of his crush, a boy named Diazo. His father, Searcher Clade (voiced by Gyllenhaal), embarrasses him by saying “so nice to meet you! My son talks about you all the time,” according to Emmy Award-winning producer Matthieu Saghezchi, who also saw the “very endearing” sequence and wrote about it on Twitter.

“It’s a part of the plot of this movie, just as it was with ‘Lightyear,’” Shapiro added. “Your kids, your choice.”

“Lightyear,” the Disney-Pixar computer-animated adventure film starring Chris Evans as the voice of Buzz Lightyear, featured a brief kiss between Alisha, voiced by the actress Uzo Aduba, and her wife Kiko.

Requests for comment from Walt Disney Animation Studios and Qui Nguyen, the film’s co-director and writer, weren’t immediately returned Tuesday.