In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, president Jim Morris revealed the animation studio will focus on original content once the development of Toy Story 4 and The Incredibles 2 are completed, meaning no more animated sequels after 2019.
“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.”
Morris also reiterated what their directors are working on and what properties won’t be getting sequels, such as WALL-E.’
“Pete Docter (Up, 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… 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.”
Two new Pixar movies will be released in 2020, with a further two in the pipeline, which will be set in “unusual but believable worlds that take us in even other directions than we’ve pursued in the past.”
Finding Dory is in UK cinemas July 29, with Toy Story 4 out July 13, 2018, and The Incredibles 2 are set for a summer 2019 release.
