Four years after Pixar’s Toy Stories went back into the toy box for what we thought was forever, Disney has now broken the news that the series will be coming out to play again in 2017.
The Toy Story film series, all produced for $320 million, have grossed more than $1.9 billion worldwide to nearly universal critical acclaim.
To fans of the series, Pixar’s John Lasseter assured them that the move was not a commonly construed “cash grab.”
“A lot of people in the industry view us doing sequels as being for the business of it, but for us it’s pure passion,” said Lasseter, director the first two Toy Story films. “We only make sequels when we have a story that’s as good as or better than the original.
The announcement comes only a few years since 2010’s Toy Story 3, which grossed over a billion at the box office and starred series staples Tom Hanks and Tim Allen as the iconic Buzz and Woody alongside Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, and Michael Keaton as Ken. The movie also spawned a rather entertaining tie-in game of the same name, if we do say so ourselves.
Toy Story 4 will follow the studio’s 2015 film, Inside Out, and 2016’s Finding Dory, a sequel to the 2003 film Finding Nemo. Sequels to both The Incredibles and Cars were previously announced earlier this year to come at some future date.
Tell us: Do you think Toy Story needs another round? Or do you think it should rest in peace?
Via The LA Times & IGN