Luca Director Explains Why He Chose This Specific Time Period Luca Director Explains Why He Chose This Specific Time Period Posted on Pixar and Disney hosted an early press day for the upcoming coming-of-age film Luca , and before the conference, they let us see about thirty minutes' worth of footage. [Spoiler alert: it looks very promising!] During the Q&A, it was brought up to director Enrico Casarosa that some movie posters spotted in the background of the movie seemed to indicate when exactly it takes place. Most of the footage and images that we've seen haven't really shown a time period for this movie, but Casarosa went on to explain that this movie does take place in the 1950s/1960s era, but it isn't a period sense in the traditional sense.