Bryce Dallas Howard is in early talks to play the female lead in Disney's Pete's Dragon. If a deal is finalized, she will join Oakes Fegley as the title character Pete, with Robert Redford also in talks to join the cast.No details were given for Bryce Dallas Howard's character, but it's possible that she could be playing a character similar to Nora (Helen Reddy) in the original Pete's Dragon, the daughter of drunken lighthouse operator Lampie (Mickey Rooney).In the original, Nora's fiancee Paul disappeared a year prior to the story, after his ship went missing at sea, a story she tells to young Pete.