Toy Story 4 will see Woody and Bo Peep reunited in a love story, Disney revealed.
Woody and Bo Peep were romantically linked in the first movie in 1995 but this time their relationship will be a big part of the plot.
Speaking at Disney’s D23 conference, Disney Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter confirmed Woody, voiced by Tom Hanks, would be at the centre of a love story.
“It’s something we’ve never done with Toy Story before,” he said.
“At Pixar and at Disney we only do a sequel if we have come up with something that’s as good or better than the original. That’s our rule.”
“We don’t do things just to print money. It’s about great stories, that’s what we do.”
Pixar previously announced that Toy Story 4, which is set to be released in June 2017, would be a standalone film separate from the trilogy.
John Lasseter, who is co-directing the movie, said the story is very emotional and personal and has been inspired by his own wife.
Plans were also announced for Toy Story Land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida.
The 11-acre park will feature large objects to make guests feel as though they are in Andy’s back garden.
Speaking during the event, lead creator for Walt Disney World Kathy Mangum explained how the park will include two new attractions.
She said: “One will see little green aliens pulling you around as the Claw looms over you. The other is a family roller-coaster where you ride on the back of Slinky Dog.”
Finding Dory, a sequel to Finding Nemo, as well as follow-ups to Frozen and The Incredibles are also in development at the moment.
There was also news on Pixar’s delayed release Good Dinosaur – which will come out in November having been pushed back by a year.
Disney also announced a Jack and the Beanstalk adaptation called Gigantic, which will feature a 60ft tall girl who Jack meets when he climbs up the beanstalk and songs written by the team behind Frozen’s Let It Go.
Toy Story 4 will be a romantic comedy, with less of a focus on the relationship between the characters and children, Pixar studio president Jim Morris has revealed.
Jim Morris made the revelation in an interview to Spanish fan site Disney Latino, in which he talked about the future direction of the animated franchise.
“It will be a love story,” he said.
“It will be a romantic comedy.
“It will not put much focus on the interaction between the characters and children.”
John Lasseter, who directed Toy Story and Toy Story 2, is returning to direct the new film, which is due for release on June 16, 2017.
The new story was created by the original Toy Story writing team of John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter and Lee Unkrich.
Jim Morris said that, although Toy Story 4 would pick up from the events at the end of the last film, it wouldn’t be a continuation.
“The third film ended in a beautiful way and completed a trilogy,” he told Disney Latino.
“This movie isn’t part of the trilogy. It’s a separate story and I don’t know if will be continued.”
The news of a fourth Toy Story film didn’t go down well with fans when it was announced in November.
Jim Morris also produced Pixar films Ratatouille, WALL-E and John Carter.
He denied they were reviving the Toy Story franchise just to make money.
“The decision to make a second or third [film] entirely depends on how passionate the director of the project is.
“Fortunately, our films are successful and we don’t have to keep having to make sequels to make money.”
2010’s Toy Story 3 was the highest-grossing animated film of all time, before Frozen knocked it off the top spot in 2014.
Toy Story 3 also won two Oscars – for best animated feature and best original song.
Some of its iconic characters were already well-known toys, such as the Etch-A-Sketch and Mr. Potato Head, while others like Woody and Buzz Lightyear became toys after being invented for the film.
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