Finding Dory began the slate of upcoming Pixar sequels and will continue through 2019 with Cars 3, Toy Story 4, and The Incredibles 2.
Following The Incredibles 2, Pixar will be taking a break from sequels and begin to provide original content. Jim Morris, president of Pixar, has confirmed that there are no sequels planned as of now for Inside Out, Up, and Wall-E.
Morris says, “Everything after Toy Story and The Incredibles is an original right now.” Following The Incredibles 2 in 2019, Pixar’s next two films — currently listed on Disney’s release schedule for March and June of 2020, respectively — are both originals, independent of one another but both of which take place in “unusual but believable worlds that take us in even other directions than we’ve pursued in the past.”
Following those two, Morris says, are two more original films in early development that aren’t dated on the studio’s schedule yet but are “highly likely.”
“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 explains. “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.”
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