Brad Bird Discusses THE INCREDIBLES 2 Script and Focus
Since Disney’s Tomorrowland was released, Brad Bird has been hard at work developing a sequel to Pixar’s The Incredibles. Collider recently caught up with the director and asked him about the project, and he gave an update on how it's going. Talking about the script for the film he said:
"I have the story arc. I’m probably three-quarters through the script, first pass through the script, but we’re already boarding parts of it. I’ve got a lot of people that worked on the first one working on it, so we’re all having a good time with it."
It good to hear that they are having fun making the movie! It means that they're probably all excited about it, and about the story they want to tell this time around. Bird went on to talk about the release date of the film:
"In terms of the release date, we were originally—Incredibles was supposed to happen after Cars, and our wheels just happened to click a little earlier so they moved us up. Release dates are a little fluid when you’re making films so far in advance. Some films are tougher to come together and tough nuts to crack, and other ones comes together a little more quickly, and so I’m just going to work as fast as I can work well with a relatively small team because I like small teams better until you’ve got everything firmly figured out."
He then discussed the superhero movie genre in general, and how it's currently crowding the movie market. It sure wasn’t like that when The Incredibles was released back in 2004. He also talked about the focus of the film:
"What’s changed is there were only two other superhero franchises at the time Incredibles came out. One of them was X-Men and the other was Spider-Man, and now there are 400 billion of them and there’s a new superhero movie every two weeks. What you don’t want to do is trot over the same turf in the same way everyone else is. So we’re trying to keep it focused in the area that our film was, which was a little bit more about characters and relationships and stuff like that, and see where that takes us. But we’re having a good time."
You know what? As long as the stories for these films are good, and there are solid filmmakers developing them, the audience will always be there. The Incredibles is my favorite Pixar movie, so even if it opened up against a Marvel and DC movie, I’d still rush out to see it, as would a ton of other fans!
I’m excited to see where Bird takes these characters in the upcoming sequel.