No Pixar Sequels Planned After 2019
The upcoming Pixar movie slate features many sequels including Cars 3, Toy Story 4, Incredibles 2 and the recent Finding Dory, EW caught up with Pixar president Jim Morris about these new movies and about brand new original movies.
“Most studios jump on doing a sequel as soon as they have a successful film, but our business model is a filmmaker model, and we don’t make a sequel unless the director of the original film has an idea that they like and are willing to go forward on. A sequel in some regards is even harder [than the original] because you’ve got this defined world which, on the one hand, is a leg up, and on the other hand has expectations that you can’t disappoint on.”
With Pixar set to release three more sequels before the end of the decade, they will add a original movie called Coco in 2017, which is based on Mexico’s Dia de Muertos. Following the release of The Incredibles 2 in 2019, the next two Pixar films will both be original movies and will be out in March and June of 2020. Which will then be followed by two more original movies which aren’t yet on Disney’s schedule.
Morris also confirmed that currently they have no sequels planned after The Incredibles 2, which means it might be a while before we see another Inside Out, Up or Wall-E.
Morris added “Pete Docter [who directed Inside Out] has an original idea for his next film. Brad Bird, being the director of Ratatouille, is working on The Incredibles and we haven’t really spoken about [a sequel to] that. And WALL-E is close to my heart since I produced it. It would be good to back and visit that world and let everybody know that the humans actually survived again after getting back to their burnt-out planet. But that was really a love story that had its beginning, middle, and end, so we’re not really planning any further stories in those worlds at this point.”
He continues to say “Our plan had been to make an original every year and a sequel every other year, if the idea came forth to do it. If we add the next films after the current ones, it actually comes out to exactly that: seven sequels in a spate of 21 originals, from the time we were acquired by Disney [in 2006]. So it’s penciled out to be the same portfolio, just not in the order we thought they would be. And a lot of that has to do with when Andrew had a sequel idea, and Brad had a sequel idea…sometimes that’s just how it happens.”
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