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Lasseter Confirms Toy Story 3 and Upcoming Pixar Projects

by Fred Topel | November 10, 2007

Summary

John Lasseter usually doesn't reveal anything about upcoming Pixar projects. Even though Toy Story 3 has been a known project ever since Disney threatened to make it without Pixar, Lasseter always dodges it. Finally, Lasseter has once-and-for-all confirmed it and discussed turning over the original Pixar property to a new(ish) director. Back to Article

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TomasSPAGHetti writes:
on Nov 10 2007 12:27 AM

Color me excited... as long as it's anything like the original two.

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Ciaranmv writes:
on Nov 10 2007 12:28 AM

To an INFINITY of remakes a rehash of old ideas and little BEYOND!

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hewpot writes:
on Nov 10 2007 12:31 AM

what about wall-e and up ciaranmv you retard

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witherwings writes:
on Nov 10 2007 12:59 AM

I love them.

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Metafact writes:
on Nov 10 2007 01:32 AM

If Pixar's involved, it won't be bad. It might be disappointing (like Cars and A Bug's Life), but Pixar has so far never made a piece of crap. So I'll trust Lasseter on Toy Story 3. He knows what he's doing.

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stg writes:
on Nov 10 2007 01:35 AM

thank god toy story was spared the direct-to-video disney treatment. Its great news that pixar is working on toy story 3, the last Buzz light year adventure although funny wasn't upto the mark. this will help erase that bad memory and end the now cult classic toy story(cgi pioneer) series on a high.

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ksduded writes:
on Nov 10 2007 02:41 AM

Up has a great premises, an 80-year old protagonist in an action adventure. It is going to be great

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JUDGE DREDD writes:
on Nov 10 2007 06:20 AM

Just make it FUNNY and dont have it centred around too many human characters, this is where Shrek 3 went wrong, it was boring!

Toy story 1 & 2 were pretty much a gag a minuit, although the cowboy side of toy story 2 was a little Meh, I would love to see Buzz Lightyear kicking some ***.

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MMMfromCA writes:
on Nov 10 2007 08:36 AM

hopefully the original director leaving won't ruin it like what happened with Shrek 3

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rgallitan writes:
on Nov 10 2007 08:47 AM

In reply to this comment (#1266395)
I dunno, if Cars didn't totally suck, it came very close.

But I do love this quote: "What I love sometimes is when creative people have tremendous constraints, brilliant ideas come out of it." Sooo true. And, I think, why I generally prefer poetry that rhymes. ...And possibly something George Lucas should take to heart about his career.

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lilheclou writes:
on Nov 10 2007 09:33 AM

cool toy story 3 loved the other toy storys and you know what pixar has not made a bad movie so i have good feling about these movies

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DaHypr1 writes:
on Nov 10 2007 09:39 AM

cool. I love the idea of going back to 2-D animation (not for toy story of course, but for more 2-D projects) :)

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~*Admiral Snowstorm*~ writes:
on Nov 10 2007 09:45 AM

I have total faith in Pixar. Normally, when two great movies exist in a franchise exist and a third is on the way, it is terribly difficult to make the third anywhere near as good as the predecessors. But this is Pixar. They don't even know how to make a bad movie. Even if Toy Story 3 ends up not being as good as the other two, at least it will be a good movie in its own right.

Eagerly awaiting anything and everything Pixar has planned.

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Mudhole writes:
on Nov 10 2007 09:50 AM

In reply to this comment (#1266415)
Toy Story is a "cult classic?" Either you or I don't know what that phrase means...and I know what that phrase means...

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FireflyFan4evr writes:
on Nov 10 2007 11:02 AM

Pixar has never faltered for me (I've never seen Cars, so I can't say anything about that one), so I'm pretty psyched for all these films. They are the only animated family films I see anymore. And I'd really like to see The Incredibles 2.

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kissman24 writes:
on Nov 10 2007 11:38 AM

I think this is all good news!

"Toy Story 3" is probably the first Disney animated feature to actually make it to a legitimate 3rd movie. All of those those cruddy straight-to-DVD ones they have released with the sole purpose of bilking people out of more money don't count. Disney was so greedy that it set out to taint the legacy of almost every animated classic it had by making shoddy sequels. Horrible, horrible, horrible...

Pixar certainly has a great track record, but making a film as great as the last two "Toy Story" movies will still be a heckuva challenge.

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eastern2western writes:
on Nov 10 2007 12:15 PM

a cult classic that made like a billion dollars. If toy story is a cult classic, then titanic is a major cult classic.

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cinemagaslight writes:
on Nov 10 2007 02:57 PM

While this is definitely cool, it isn't exactly breaking news. Lasseter and Ed Catmull announced this back in February. Variety has the article here: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117959040.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 (They speculate in the article that it will be a 2009 release, but that's about the only difference) Still, everything about these projects is exciting.

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TheHarold writes:
on Nov 10 2007 05:27 PM

count me in

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Warheart1188 writes:
on Nov 10 2007 07:20 PM

A 2-D animation film from Disney??! FINALLY! We haven't seen one of those in years! Or rather, we haven't seen a GOOD one in years.

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stg writes:
on Nov 11 2007 08:11 AM

My bad, "cult" was obviously the wrong word what i meant to imply was that it was a pioneering full length cgi movie which opened doors for others to follow suit, and deserves a proper send-off that makes it iconic and remembered as one of the best cgi trilogy as opposed to the Shrek trilogy's creative shipwreck.

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hard8 writes:
on Nov 11 2007 09:35 AM

when Disney announced they were opening the Secret Lab (thier 3D animation studio) Pixar was furious.
As the Secret Lab was ramping up, Disney was laying off a huge chunk of their 2-D animators and selling off
their animation desks.

Take a guess at who was buying the desks and hiring the animators?

Pixar continues to make Disney a boatload of money (less than before because of the new contract) and at the same
time manages to make them look like complete jackasses. One of the best success stories in history.
There's a film waiting to be made about this.

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Pleasuretown writes:
on Nov 11 2007 11:47 AM

Pixar is amazing. I've seen every film they've made. And i bought Ratatouille based on the Pixar name, because i never got to see it in theaters, and it's an amazing buy. Cars was excellent in it's own right, but it had extremely high expectations. Toy Story 3 sounds a little over-done to me, but it's Pixar! If anyone can do it, it's them! Wall-E and Up both sound like great movies.

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South_park300 writes:
on Nov 11 2007 03:13 PM

i'm tired of people hating on Cars. it's not the best Pixar movie by far, but is still great

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randz writes:
on Nov 12 2007 11:50 AM

agreed. Cars is pixel per pixel better than most non-pixar animated movie.

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Gimy writes:
on Nov 12 2007 11:55 AM

i've lost faith in pixar. cars wasn't that good and i swear to god i can't for the life of me see what the h3ll is the big deal with Rat, i thought it was utter horsesh3t. it was an animated adult flick that was so predictable it wasn't entertaining at all. wasn't funny, wasn't cute, wasn't well put together either. hopefully they don't screw up the Toy Story Franchise but...judging by their last couple of attempts...i have no reason to think its going to be that good

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minderbinder writes:
on Nov 12 2007 01:03 PM

"To an INFINITY of remakes a rehash of old ideas and little BEYOND! "

What are you talking about. They have one sequel announced, everything else is original ideas. And TS2 is one of the best sequels of all time, I think it's even better than the original. If anyone can do a killer job on a sequel, it's Pixar.

I have to agree with those who put Cars in the blah category, but loved ratatouille. I think it's just a matter of taste, while it's an amazing movie, I can see people not liking it if they went into it with the wrong expectation.

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Crusader07 writes:
on Nov 12 2007 01:56 PM

I dont know how they do it (maybe by using just a little frickin' creativity) but Pixar is consistently making amazing movie after movie. It makes you wonder when they will finaly fail (Hopefully never!)

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LJPlayer69 writes:
on Nov 12 2007 03:14 PM

To all of you who say that Cars is the worst Pixar film, you ALL are wrong, it's Nemo... Cars was great, even better than Ratatouille!

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lka22 writes:
on Nov 12 2007 05:27 PM

I loved the first 2 Toy Stories. I just hope this won't be of straight-to-DVD quality.

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CoUcH ToMaToE DoUgIe writes:
on Nov 12 2007 07:27 PM

In reply to this comment (#1271825)
LJPlayer69, you must live in Bizarro world if you think cars was great

and to say then nemo is its worst film? then either or you are dumb as a rock or

someone switch the label of your dvds again. hoping it is the latter because if you

actually believe nemo was the worst pixar film then i pity your blind and tastlessness

in judging films. and let me just ask anyone who reads my post... who here believes

a movie with larry the cable guy's humor in cars is better than the legendary A. Brooks

in Finding Nemo? i hope no one else is as foolish as ljplayer69.

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CoUcH ToMaToE DoUgIe writes:
on Nov 12 2007 07:35 PM

and by the way, keep up the best work in hollywood, pixar!! can't wait for

"UP", because a movie about senior citzens action movie means only one wonderful thing

sly stallone will still have work in voice overs... hey pixar gave a part to larry the

cable guy, they shouldn't have a problem with rocky, right? also, i am stoked for

wall-e because i have not had something to satisfy my short circut fix in awhile. sorry

johnny five, you are about to have some company! but you will always be number one..

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CoUcH ToMaToE DoUgIe writes:
on Nov 12 2007 07:48 PM

oh yeah, and of course i can't forget about my favorite dynamic duo,

woody and buzz (of course if chris nolan ever wants to bring in robin, then i might

reconsider. hey, the best news about this third movie is the fact that at least it tim

allen a good movie to do, because frankly he has not done anything watchable besides

toy story movies, and maybe that space quest movie thing. and for hanks at least he

won't have any hair disasters in this movie like his previous movie, da vinci code.

still, it won't be the same without slinky' s real voice... R.I.P. jim varney. keep

strong don rickles, we need mr. potato head's voice plus your one hell of a legend too.

Finally, is it just me but am the only who thinks pixar films lucky mascot, john

ratzenberg, get a staring moive for himself? i think its time, he's more than earned it.

and ehen i think about it how about the "up" movie? i believed him as cliff clavin

(cheers), mac(cars),r.t. flea(bug's life), Hamm(toy story 1&2), school of fish(nemo),

abominable snowman(monsters inc), and a waiter(ratouille). why not an 80 year old

action hero, huh? so, forget, sly, pixar... give it to ratzenberg, please!! and make

george wendt(normie) as his buddy!

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