Toy Story 3 Announced for 2009.
slashfilm.com reports:
Good news and bad news.
The Good News: Disney has announced that Pixar will release Toy Story 3 in 2009. And the Oscar nominated screenwriter behind Little Miss Sunshine is hard at work on the story.
The Bad News: Toy Story and Pixar mastermind and all-around animation god John Lasseter won’t be directing.Lasseter and Disney Animation president Ed Catmull revealed the news at Thursday’s investor conference.
Lee Unkrich, who has been co-director on Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc, and Finding Nemo, will step up to helm the third film in the series. Lasseter is probably too busy in his new post as chief creative officer of Disney Animation to work on the latest effort.
I wonder if they’ll be keeping the same story line of Buzz being “recalled” or if they thought of something else…
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I can’t believe Lasseter isn’t directing. Toy Story is his baby. I do hope they find a new storyline… I’ve always been worried about the “recall” one.
I’m not too worried about Lasseter not directing, but the story line does worry me.
I’m not convinced that a 3rd film is a good idea, but I’m hoping that Disney can pull it off.