{"id":16967,"date":"2011-10-27T17:13:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T22:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=16967"},"modified":"2011-10-27T17:13:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T22:13:06","slug":"brad-bird-talks-possible-incredibles-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/27\/brad-bird-talks-possible-incredibles-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Bird Talks Possible INCREDIBLES Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of the bigger mistakes Warner Brothers made in the last decade or so was letting animation director Brad Bird move on to a job at PIXAR after they bungled the release of his first film The Iron Giant<\/strong>. Once at PIXAR, Bird began work on his next idea, the story of a family of superheroes. The film would become The Incredibles<\/strong>, and for my money, is still one of the best films on the animation studios already impressive resume.<\/p>\n

And while PIXAR has generally shied away from doing sequels to many of its films, there has always been some lo-level clamor amongst fans to see a second installment of the adventures of Mr. Incredible, his wife Elasti-Girl and their family. But Bird, at first perhaps sensing the lukewarm response that Cars 2<\/strong> would receive, has remained hesitant in doing a follow up. And in a recent interview at Movies.com<\/a> while doing the publicity rounds for his live action debut Mission: Impossible \u2013 Ghost Protocol<\/strong>, he expounded on that hesitancy.<\/p>\n

Bird stated that while he was open to the possibility of doing a sequel one day, he hadn\u2019t found the right story to tell yet.<\/p>\n

I think the reason it hasn\u2019t [happened] yet is because the studio would like me to do it, if there were another Incredibles<\/strong>. And I\u2019ve told them that I\u2019m not really friendly to have someone else take away my child. I would like to think that I have several good ideas that could be incorporated into a next Incredibles<\/strong>, but I don\u2019t have a whole movie yet, and the last thing I want to do is do it just because it would open big, or something like that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also notes that he has given himself a pretty high bar to meet in terms of generating a story for a potential sequel.<\/p>\n

I want to do it because I have something that will be as good or better than the original Toy Story 2<\/strong> was, to me, a perfect sequel, because it absolutely respected the first film but found new places to go without selling out its characters. So if I could come up with an idea that is to Incredibles<\/strong> that Toy Story 2<\/strong> is to Toy Story<\/strong>, I would do it in a second.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For all their technical genius, the folks at PIXAR have always struck me as storytellers first and animators second. The studio has built up a library of films based on their philosophy of making sure that a film\u2019s story is as solid as it can be before going into production, which is what made a misfire like Cars 2<\/strong> even more puzzling. But if Bird is willing to wait until he has a story idea that is just right, I\u2019m willing to wait as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He\u2019s got some ideas, but nothing that he\u2019s actively working on yet.<\/div>\n

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