Say it Ain't So...

[Sarangel]

Yet another reason to hope tha Pixar & Disney find a way to continue their partnership once Mr. Eisner is gone...

Walt Disney Co. is working on not just one but two new sequels in the "Toy Story" series at the same time, Disney chief executive Michael Eisner said yesterday.

"Toy Story," which came out in 1995, and 1999's "Toy Story 2" were blockbuster film and merchandising hits for Pixar Animation Studios, the Disney partner that produced it, and for Disney.

But that partnership is ending after two more films, giving Disney the right to craft sequels if Pixar does not want to.

"We're doing two 'Toy Stories' at once," Eisner said in listing some of Disney's film plans at a Goldman Sachs investment conference in Manhattan.

A spokeswoman in Los Angeles for Disney studios later elaborated, saying, "They're working on different story ideas with the hopes there will be a 'Toy Story 3' and another after that."

A Pixar spokeswoman declined to comment. ...

Eisner said an enormous amount of computer-animated movies will spill forth from Hollywood in the next few years, but victory will boil down to story-telling and emotion, rather than just technology.

That last bit sounds good, but I have my doubts about Disney doing this. They've ignored story in so many films lately that I'm not real hopeful.

Sarangel

 

[dcentity2000]

I saw Disney and Pixar in the same line at the start of this thread and I felt I was on the world's grandest, most overwhelming ocean liner enjoying the chilled sea air...

I read the rest and tasted the ominous tang of ice.



Rich::

 

[raidermatt]

So if I'm reading this right, the Disney spokeswoman was backtracking a bit for Eisner. Not that what he said was technically wrong, but certainly this:

"They're working on different story ideas with the hopes there will be a 'Toy Story 3' and another after that."

does not have quite the same implication as this:

"We're doing two 'Toy Stories' at once,"

Did she make the clarification because Eisner simply gave the wrong impression, or because they are still hoping to continue the Pixar relationship and know that Eisner's statement would not help that situation?


dcentity, I like your analogy.

 

[KNWVIKING]

Ya sure got a way with words.

 

[OnWithTheShow]

I guess they forget Millionaire.

 

[Sarangel]

Maybe Eisner will leave before they're completed & the new CEO will kill the project?

Sarangel

 

[ShadowWind]

We've seen how Disney's own sequels go. I doubt Toy Story 3 will be any different. Let us not forget that one of the main things that Pixar has going for it is the creative team of John Lassiter and Company. They really need to work it out with Pixar, but I don't see that happening...