Reception to Pixar doing sequels has been pretty much mixed, as there are fans that would like for Pixar to re-visit some of their favorite characters, while others want Pixar to focus on doing more original material and focus less on sequels or not make any at all, unlike other studios such as Dreamworks who has sequels and spin offs to most of their franchises every year, if you dont like Pixar doing sequels, then this is good news for you, as Pixar president Jim Morris told Entertainment Weekly, they have no plans for follows up after the release of The Incredibles 2. This is what Jim Morris told EW regarding the topic of sequels on Pixar, also explaining that unlike other studios, they dont greenlight a sequel because the last one did well, they are only greenlight if they have a story they want to tell.
“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.” Morris says, “Everything after Toy Story and The Incredibles is an original right now.” Morris says. “Pete Docter 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 since I produced it, It would be good to back and visit that world and let everybody know that the humans actually survived again after getting back to their burnt-out planet. 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.”
“Our plan had been to make an original every year and a sequel every other year, if the idea came forth to do it,” says Morris. “If we add the next films after the current ones, it actually comes out to exactly that: seven sequels in a spate of 21 originals, from the time we were acquired by Disney [in 2006]. So it’s penciled out to be the same portfolio, just not in the order we thought they would be. And a lot of that has to do with when Andrew had a sequel idea, and Brad had a sequel idea…sometimes that’s just how it happens.”
For the time being we will re-visit the world of Cars next summer, followed by Toy Story 4 in 2018 and The Incredibles 2 in 2019, alongside an original movie named Coco in 2017 following Cars 3, for the time being what comes after Incredibles 2 is up to anyone guess, but it wont be another sequel.