'Nobody's Being Robbed Of Their Trilogy': Toy Story 5 Director Defends Disney's Decision To Make Yet Another Sequel

Disney's determination to marque a 5th Toy Story movie has been defended by its director, who has said that fans of Pixar's archetypal trilogy tin simply "have that and ne'er ticker different if they don't privation to."

Due retired adjacent year, Toy Story 5 volition spot its beloved pack of toys brought retired of status to look what manager Andrew Stanton has described arsenic their top "existential problem" truthful far: an iPad-like tablet.

Speaking to Empire, Stanton said that the thought of accepted toys dealing with the modern satellite was simply excessively bully to walk up. That said, helium besides acknowleged those who judge 2010's Toy Story 3 wrapped up the franchise perfectly, astatine the extremity of the characters' "Andy years."

"So '3' was the end... of the Andy years," Stanton stated. "Nobody's being robbed of their trilogy. They tin person that and ne'er ticker different if they don't privation to. But I've ever loved however this satellite allows america to clasp clip and change. There's nary committedness that it stays successful amber."

Toy Story 3's hugely affectional finale saw Woody, Buzz and friends passed down from their archetypal owner, Andy, to the younger Bonnie. It was the extremity of an era, with Andy's property designed to lucifer the fig of years that had passed since the motorboat of Pixar's classical archetypal movie backmost successful 1995.

But, 9 years later, Disney launched Toy Story 4, a caller section mostly acceptable successful a kids time attraction center. The extremity of that movie was besides designed to tug connected viewers' heartstrings, with Woody parting from his champion pal Buzz (something the archetypal Toy Story 5 trailer, above, shows has present been reversed.)

"Nobody's truly playing with toys anymore," Stanton continued, discussing the crippled for Toy Story 5. "Technology has changed everybody's lives, but we're asking what that means for america — and to our kids. We can't conscionable get distant with making tech the villain."

It's a communicative thought that immoderate fans consciousness Disney has already touched on, successful movies specified arsenic Wreck-It Ralph sequel Ralph Breaks the Internet, and thing that others person said they conscionable aren't funny seeing the fan-favorite Toy Story formed person to conflict again to woody with. The elephant successful the country here, of course, is the wealth Disney intelligibly hopes to marque by going backmost to the Toy Story good erstwhile more. Toy Story 4 made $1 cardinal backmost successful 2019 — a full that Pixar has lone beaten erstwhile since, with Inside Out 2, amid a bid of archetypal movies specified arsenic Elemental and this year's flop Elio that person performed markedly little well.

It's a taxable that Pixar seasoned Pete Docter addressed earlier this year, portion acknowledging Elio's container bureau performance. Stressing that Pixar needed to "find retired what radical privation earlier they cognize it," Docter said that the alternate was conscionable feeding audiences "more of what they know" — starring to endless sequels and much of the same. "We'd beryllium making Toy Story 27," Docter admitted. Well, we're not rather determination yet.

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