THE INCREDIBLES 2 Director Brad Bird Reveals Why The Sequel Begins Directly After The First Film

THE INCREDIBLES 2 Director Brad Bird Reveals Why The Sequel Begins Directly After The First Film

Brad Bird, director of The Incredibles and its upcoming sequel, has revealed exactly why he chose to set this second film immediately after the events of the last one. Make the jump to find out more...

By FromACertainPOV - Apr 18, 2018 09:04 AM EST
Filed Under: The Incredibles
Source: ScreenRant
A great many people are hotly anticipating Brad Bird's return to the world of both animation and The Incredibles this June. Some, however, were upset to learn that the upcoming sequel would begin directly after the end of the original 2004 PIXAR film. It was hoped that after the lengthy 14 years of wait time for a sequel, we would also be given an in-world time jump to a new comic book age aesthetic and to see Jack Jack as a teenager.

Speaking to ScreenRant the Tomorrowland  director revealed that it is exactly for that latter point, that he chose not to jump ahead in time:

Men are always expected to be strong, so I had Bob have super strength. Mothers are always pulled in a million different directions, so I had her be elastic. Teenagers are insecure and defensive, so I had Violet have force fields and invisibility. Ten-year-olds are energy balls that can’t be stopped. And babies are unknowns. Maybe they have no powers, maybe they have all powers – we don’t know. That’s what Jack-Jack was; he was seemingly the most normal one in the family and then at the end of Incredibles, you find out he’s a wild card and he’s sort of the Swiss army knife of powers. And that reminds me of the way babies can grasp language really easily and adapt them easily. That idea changes if you age the characters up and the insight into those periods of your life and those particular perspectives disappear once you age them up. I’m not interested in a college-aged Jack Jack, I’m just not.


It's a fair enough point and is as always, a testament to Pixar storytelling that character and theme is at the forefront of creative decisions. What's more, with Brad Bird saying for years that the reason he didn't make a sequel was that he didn't have an interesting or worthy enough story, it bodes well that The Incredibles 2 will live up to its name. 

What do you think? Were you looking forward to a time-jump for the sequel? What do you think of Brad Bird's reasoning? Leave your thoughts below. 
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knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 4/18/2018, 10:03 AM
that's actually well said and conveyed for the direction he's looking for
NightBoyWonder
NightBoyWonder - 4/18/2018, 10:11 AM
Thank you!
darkboy
darkboy - 4/18/2018, 10:12 AM
If they get a third THEN do a timeskip, you gotta, not to the point where jackjack is in college, just like 5-10 years
Ronan3Accuser
Ronan3Accuser - 4/18/2018, 10:15 AM
So will he do the Fantastic Four?
ManDeth
ManDeth - 4/18/2018, 10:20 AM
I didn't even want more of the first one. It was OK but not great.
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 4/18/2018, 10:42 AM
@ManDeth - Disagree heavily.
ManDeth
ManDeth - 4/19/2018, 2:50 AM
@Toffee - It was a cute movie. Like Marvel, the movie stole from Watchmen's 'Keene Act' idea. All the character ideas were borrowed/collected from Marvel & DC characters. And for 1/2 the movie the Incredibles were mildly fun to watch. But then they became redundant and the movie went back and forth from being just for kids to a more adult movie and sometimes a parody. It tried to be everything.

The last 15 minutes was a mess and the animation quality dropped also.

To be great, it would need to be 100% solid and would need to offer something more than borrowed ideas, super-hero cliches and inferior version super-hero archetypes.

It was good imitation Marvel & DC.

EZBeast
EZBeast - 4/18/2018, 10:29 AM
These Disney sequels have been misses for me and I don’t expect this to be any different but at least it’s the best fantastic four film.
Beetleborg
Beetleborg - 4/18/2018, 10:40 AM
But also elasti-girl had her powers before she was a mother, same with Mr. Incredible. It's weird to have the powers reflect the current time in their lives when they will have had them before that period and after it.

It'd be better if it was purely personality based, like oh she's introverted, she over extends herself.

It wouldn't affect the parallel to those stages of life but are more versatile going forward.
Beetleborg
Beetleborg - 4/18/2018, 10:47 AM
@Beetleborg -
For example, when Dash becomes a teenager, he won't be a "kid with too much energy" anymore, but maybe he's over ambitious, like Hermione in Prisoner of Azkaban. He has to balance using his abilities to do all the things he wants to do.

And for Jack Jack, college age would be like Superman in Smallville and there's a lot to play with there.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 4/18/2018, 10:43 AM
What a fantastic explanation, Brad Bird rules! I finally got around to see Tomorrowland, it wasn't bad at all! I can see why it was planned and didn't make any money, very depressing for a Disney movie lol
ChangAlang
ChangAlang - 4/18/2018, 10:53 AM
@bobevanz - For entertainment value I liked Tomorrowland. For me, Clooney was the dissappointment. As nice a guy he is I’m not sure this was the right project for him.
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 4/18/2018, 11:08 AM
That's a lot more thoughtful depth to the characters than I would have thunk up. Makes it all even more interesting and fleshed out.
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 4/18/2018, 11:09 AM
Perfectly good explanation. Check
Best Fantastic Four movie to date. Check
Second most anticipated movie for me this year. Check

Extremely excited to see this movie. The first one is my absolute favorite Disney movie... even over Aladdin or Lion King

THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 4/18/2018, 4:44 PM
That's cool how their powers relate to the type of characters they are, but we already saw all of those things in the first one. We saw Mr. Incredible being a strong dad, we saw Elastigirl being pulled in a million different directions, we saw Violet being insecure and defensive, we saw Dash being an energy ball, and we saw the mystery with Jack Jack.

I don't see how he thinks aging them would make it less interesting. If anything, I would think it'd be more interesting because having them at a different age with the same powers adds for a whole new dynamic. Instead, we're getting the same thing again with no evolution.
Tony93
Tony93 - 4/18/2018, 5:34 PM
@THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - totally agree, a time jump would’ve aged well with the time it took to get a sequel, jack jack doesn’t need to be in college, but I hope in the end we see some sort of Time jump
Chrome
Chrome - 4/18/2018, 6:25 PM
So using this logic, did he give FroZone ice powers causes he’s a cool black guy? Seems wrong smh
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 4/19/2018, 12:24 AM
Its actually pretty smart thinking. And I thought it was just a FF ripoff
ReverseFlasher
ReverseFlasher - 4/19/2018, 4:56 AM
The symbolism behind the family’s powers was always the best thing about the Incredibles.... its a pretty apparent relation, but I think he also said it before on commentaries or something.
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