From the Director of PLANES, Klay Hall,  “I’ve always been a huge fan of stand-up comedy. And I was kind of hoping that we’d be able to get some of those guys to come do voice work on Planes. But never in my wildest dreams did I think that we’d be able to get stand-up comedians of the caliber of Dane Cook, Brad Garrett, Cedric the Entertainer, Gabriel Iglesias and Sinbad,” Klay enthused. “And on top of that, to get the chance to work with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and John Cleese, it just doesn’t get any better than that.”

But that said, were you to ask Hall if there was one specific piece of vocal casting on this project that he was most proud of, this veteran animation director would immediately point to Echo & Bravo, the two F-18s that Dusty (i.e. the single-propeller crop-duster who serves as “Planes” central character) winds up befriending over the course of this movie.

“When these two fighter jet characters were initially proposed for this new animated feature, I said ‘Wouldn’t it be great if we could get Anthony Edwards and Val Kilmer — the actors who played navy pilots Goose and Iceman in Top Gun — to come voice Echo and Bravo?,’ ” Klay stated. “And as it turned out, Anthony and Val were not only available but were very enthusiastic about getting the chance to work together again.”

You can read the rest at the Huffington Post.