"Joe Gardner is our first African American lead, ... After an unexpected twist of fate, Joe becomes a soul and enters "The Great Before" where he meets 22, a soul voiced by Tina Fey. He was voiced by Jamie Foxx, who also played Django Freeman, Nico, Will Stacks, and Vincent Downs. At the beginning of the film, Joe suffers an accident which leaves him hovering between life and death. At the end of Soul, Joe Gardner is thanked for accomplishing the seemingly impossible task (over a thousand years of failed attempts) of guiding 22 to want to join life. So what did the Soul creative team ultimately decide on? Joe Gardner is the protagonist of Disney/Pixar's 2020 animated feature film, Soul. The new Pixar film, Soul, tells the story of Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx), a middle school music teacher who seems to be on the cusp of finally achieving his dreams when he gets a gig to perform with an acclaimed Jazz performer – only to promptly fall into a manhole. Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx) gets to play with jazz legend Dorothea Williams (Angela Bassett) in ‘Soul.’. But then how could the soul survive the body’s decay or even exist separately? Soul is a 2020 American computer-animated fantasy comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.Directed by Pete Docter and co-directed by Kemp Powers, the film stars the voices of Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House, Alice Braga, Richard Ayoade, Phylicia Rashad, Donnell Rawlings, Questlove, and Angela Bassett. Joe is very passionate about music. Does Joe Gardner die in this animated movie? Souls depart from the dying person and travel to the great beyond. And yet, when "Soul" was first pitched, Joe wasn't the movie's star. The protagonist of “Soul” is Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), a frustrated jazz pianist turned middle-aged middle-school band teacher. The day it arrives he meets his death due to an untimely accident. Many now deny the existence of a soul, considering human emotions and motives simply a function of neurons firing. Souls also pre-exist their earthly incarnation, and some of them at least don’t seem overly keen to embark on this journey into life. In their conception of the soul, the producers hark back to some of the most influential ideas of western intellectual history but in an unmistakably 21st-century way. But Joe, well, he’s just a middle school music teacher. “Soul” is the story of Joe Gardner, a jazz pianist who has waited his entire life for his big break. He's aware he looks like Harry Potter and Clark Kent. His companion, a not-yet-born soul introduced only as number 22, learns more from Joe, due to his unbending will to return to Earth, than she did from the souls of Gandhi, Einstein and Jung, who had previously tutored her in preparation for her birth. Disney • Pixar Soul. Joe must work with some of these souls-in-training so he can make it back to Earth before his body dies. Getrennt von seinem Körper landet seine Seele in einem Ausbildungs-Seminar... zum Trailer. https://screenrant.com/soul-pixar-piano-player-joe-jamie-foxx The film follows Joe Gardner, an aspiring jazz pianist who is stuck in the rut of his daily life as a part-time middle school music teacher. The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. The filmmakers discussed other death scenarios for Soul’s lead character as follows: Pete Docter: We had a couple of thoughts that maybe he was so into rehearsing that he gets hit by a truck or something. He wears a grey fedora, a black turtleneck, brown pants, and red derby shoes. Yes, he falls down a manhole and ends up in the hospital, but Joe Gardner never dies. Another massive reveal in the new Soul trailer is the fact that Joe Gardner seems to not be dead after all. He wears a grey fedora, a black turtleneck, brown pants, and red derby shoes. This created tension. READ MORE: Soul review: Pixar animation shows what it means to be human Ideas about the soul have been powerful throughout the history of religion and philosophy. Joe Gardner, voiced by Jaime Foxx, is the soft-smiling protagonist of “Soul” and the first Black protagonist of a Pixar movie. “Soul” is the story of Joe Gardner, a jazz pianist who has waited his entire life for his big break.