Pixar President Jim Morris has assured cinema patrons that it will not be focusing on sequels forevermore.
Pixar's latest film Finding Dory has kickstarted a run of sequels that will see the animation studio revisit the universes of Toy Story, The Incredibles and Cars.
In insisting Pixar will end its run of sequels, Morris effectively ruled that there will not be a sequel to the company’s 2008 fan favourite WALL-E, as well as other favourites including Inside Out and Ratatouille.
Jim Morris, President of Pixar Animation
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly Morris said that, “It would be good to go 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”.
Morris said “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.”
He went on to highlight the difficulties that studios face when returning to a successful property.
“A sequel in some regards is ever harder” he continued, “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”.
Beyond the Finding Nemo sequel, which earned a record-breaking opening in the United States last month, Pixar will release Cars 3 (2017), Toy Story 4 (2018) and The Incredibles 2 (2019), the first of which came out in 2004.
