Disney+ has released a trailer for its upcoming drama Togo ahead of its arrival on the streaming service later this month. Directed by Ericson Core, the film is based on the true story of the 1925 Great Race of Mercy and stars Willem Dafoe as a dogsled trainer, who with the help of his aging Siberian husky Togo, travels across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra in a 600 mile round trip to help transport an antitoxin serum to save his town from a deadly epidemic.
“When a deadly epidemic strikes the town of Nome, Alaska, and the only cure is more than 600 miles away, the town looks to champion dogsled trainer Leonhard Seppala (Willem Dafoe) to help transport an antitoxin serum. Seppala turns to Togo, an unassuming, undersized and aging Siberian husky, to be his lead. His wife (Julianne Nicholson) has championed Togo since his days as a mischievous puppy who could dig himself out of any situation—literally and figuratively—and Seppala, having observed Togo’s loyalty and tenacious spirit, knows Togo offers his only chance of surviving this mission.
Undaunted by the massive storm heading their way or his wife’s urging him not to go, Seppala and Togo set out on the deadliest leg of what becomes a larger relay involving multiple mushers and gale-force winds and a wind chill factor dipping to 70 degrees below zero with little to no visibility. It is a harrowing journey on which Togo saves Seppala from certain death, causing the veteran musher to grasp the depth and intensity of his feelings for his lead dog, even as he risks running him to his death.”
Togo arrives on Disney+ on December 20th.
