I was really taken by surprise to hear that a fourth installment of the Toy Story franchise was going to be made. Everything was wrapped up nicely at the end of Toy Story 3. We saw the life of a child and his beloved toys from beginning to end. Toy Story 3 was so good and so meaningful, How can Disney/Pixar top this movie? Those are the questions I have and with that said I am looking forward to another Toy Story movie. We’ve enjoyed these movies very much as a family and even Andrew went as Buzz Lightyear for Halloween this year. Toy Story is important to us and I want to see it done right. I think that it will with John Lasseter at the helm. If a story needs to be told then I’ll certainly listen.
More about Toy Story 4.
TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!
Nearly two decades after Pixar Animation Studios created the world’s first computer-animated feature film with “Toy Story,” it revealed plans for Disney•Pixar’s “Toy Story 4,” an adventure that returns audiences to the world of the studio’s signature characters.
John Lasseter, director of the original “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2,” will direct the film, which opens a new chapter in the lives of Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the “Toy Story” gang. The story was dreamt up by Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter and Lee Unkrich, the storytellers who have been the driving force behind all three “Toy Story” films.
“We love these characters so much; they are like family to us,” said Lasseter. “We don’t want to do anything with them unless it lives up to or surpasses what’s gone before. ‘Toy Story 3’ ended Woody and Buzz’s story with Andy so perfectly that for a long time, we never even talked about doing another ‘Toy Story’ movie. But when Andrew, Pete, Lee and I came up with this new idea, I just could not stop thinking about it. It was so exciting to me, I knew we had to make this movie—and I wanted to direct it myself.”
Writing team Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (“Celeste and Jesse Forever”) joined the project, and Pixar veteran Galyn Susman (ABC’s “Toy Story OF TERROR!” and “Toy Story that Time Forgot”) is producing.
The film is slated for release on June 16, 2017.