Earth to Echo 2014 American science fiction adventure drama film

Earth to Echo is a 2014 American science fiction adventure drama film directed by Dave Green, and produced by Robbie Brenner and Andrew Panay. The film was originally developed and produced by Walt Disney Pictures, who eventually sold the distribution rights to Relativity Media, which released the completed film in theaters on July 2, 2014.

The personalities of three neighborhood teens, Alex, Tuck and Munch, clash as they receive cryptic encoded messages on their cell phones which contain maps to a crashed alien. The friendly alien needs specific parts to repair itself and lures the boys to help it by following maps sent to their cell phones. They are all closely tailed by the usual shadowy government agents who plan to trap the alien for dissection. As the boys (and later, a girl named Emma who joins them) befriend the little E.T., they name him "Echo" due to its ability to echo sounds. After being caught and escaping the government agents, the crew takes a newly repaired Echo to the buried bridge of its ship. They say goodbye and escape to the surface as the rest of the ship assembles itself by pulling parts up from the ground and reassembling itself above their neighborhood.

CastTeo Halm as Alex Nichols
Brian "Astro" Bradley as Tuck Simms
Reese Hartwig as Reginald "Munch" Barrett
Ella Wahlestedt as Emma
Jason Gray-Stanford as Dr. Lawrence Masden
Alga Smith as Marcus Simms
Cassius Willis as Calvin Simms
Sonya Leslie as Theresa Simms
Kerry O'Malley as Janice Douglas
Virginia Louise Smith as Betty Barrett
Peter Mackenzie as James Hastings
Valerie Wildman as Christine Hastings
Mary Pat Gleason as Dusty (Mullet Lady at Bar)
Chris Wylde as Security Guard
Brooke Dillman as Diner Waitress
Myk Watford as Blake Douglas
Tiffany Espensen as Charlie
Israel Broussard as Cameron
Drake Kemper as Mookie
Sean Carroll as Podcast Voice (voice)

ProductionEarth to Echo was commissioned by Sean Bailey, Walt Disney Studios' President of Production, under the working title,Untitled Wolf Adventure, while the studio shifted leadership between Rich Ross and Alan Horn. After Horn's succession as Chairman and viewing a final cut of the film, he decided to put the film into turnaround. After Producer Andrew Panay met with Relativity President Tucker Tooley, Disney eventually sold the film's distribution rights to Relativity Media in 2013.