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Posted November 7, 2014 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Plan for Toy Story 4 Revealed

Despite brilliantly ending one of cinema’s most beloved series with Toy Story 3 back in 2010, Pixar Animation Studios (which is now owned by Disney) has revealed plans to return audiences to the world of the studio’s signature character with Toy Story 4.

Toy Story 4

Director John Lasseter works with members of his story team on Disney•Pixar’s “Toy Story 4.” (Photo by Deborah Coleman / Pixar)

The first Toy Story (1995) was Pixar’s inaugural film and the world’s first computer-animated feature film. Nearly two decades after directing that film, John Lasseter will return to helm the new installment (he also directed Toy Story 2 in 1999), which is slated for release on June 16, 2017.

The new film will tell a story dreamt up by Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, and Lee Unkrich – the storytellers who have been the driving force behind all of the “Toy Story” films. Writing team Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (Celeste and Jesse Forever [2012]) have also joined the project with Pixar veteran Galyn Susman producing.

“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.”

Only time will tell in Toy Story 4 will do just that. But, given that Pixar’s most successful sequels have born the “Toy Story” moniker, there is more than just a fair share of hope for the further adventures of Woody and Buzz Lightyear.

Mike Tyrkus

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.