‘Toy Story 4’ Officially Announced With Original Director John Lasseter Returning
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Thursday, November 6th, 2014 at 7:30 pm
The Walt Disney Company chairman Bob Iger has officially announced that Pixar is making Toy Story 4, and that original Toy Story director John Lasseter will be returning to helm the fourth installment himself.
Disney has also locked in the June 16, 2017 calendar spot for a release date. The story will see Woody, Buzz, and the rest of the toys beginning a new chapter. The idea for the story was developed by some of the Pixar Brain Trust, including two-time Oscar-winner Lasseter (Toy Story, Tin Toy), two-time Oscar winner Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, WALL-E), Oscar winner Pete Docter (Up), and Toy Story 2 co-director and Oscar-winning Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich.
Of the news, Lasseter said:
“We love these characters so much; they are like family to us,” said Lasseter in a statement. “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.”
According to the report, Celeste & Jesse Forever writing duo Rashida Jones and Will McCormack will also work on Toy Story 4.
After the first year in a long time with no new Pixar movie this year, 2015 will see the release of Inside Out on June 19th, and The Good Dinosaur on November 25th.
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