Disney’s plundering of its back catalogue takes flight again this year with a re-working of the story of Peter and Elliot, the latter of whom is a dragon.

The 1977 cartoon version is well-remembered, though not perhaps a classic like Disney’s other 2016 live action re-imagining (which also showed itself off today), and there’s a certain charm to the first look at David Lowery’s forthcoming film.

Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford and the marvelously named Oakes Fegley the new film is out on the 12th of August.

Here’s the first look images and trailer.

Trailer time,

Look Miles, it’s a synopsis!

A reimagining of Disney’s cherished family film, “Pete’s Dragon” is the adventure of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliott, who just so happens to be a dragon.

For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford) has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales…until she meets Pete (Oakes Fegley). Pete is a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete’s descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham’s stories. With the help of Natalie (Oona Laurence), an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack (Wes Bentley) owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon