THE INCREDIBLES 2 Will Be Director Brad Bird’s Next Film
A few weeks ago we posted an interview with Tomorrowland director Brad Bird about The Incredibles 2. During the interview he revealed that he had started writing the film, but gave no indication on when that movie will be released, or if he would even be directing it. All he said was:
"I’m just starting to write it, so we’ll see what happens."
Well, during an interview with Collider, the director confirmed that it will be his next project. When asked if The Incredibles 2 would be his next project he said, “Yeah it feels like it to me, yeah.” When asked about how the writing of the script was coming along he said:
“Oh yeah I have pages, a bunch of pages. I had a lot of ideas for the original Incredibles that I didn’t get a chance to use, that I like. I have ideas that I wanted to pursue a little bit and there wasn’t enough time in Incredibles. There are new ideas I have, and I think there are enough of those together to make an interesting movie. I’m just focusing on getting Tomorrowland out into the world and playing with the Incredibles sandbox again.”
The Incredibles is my favorite Pixar film, and the fact that Bird is coming back to develop a sequel is exciting news! If anyone is going to give these characters a great sequel it’s going to be the guy who created them. It was also revealed in the interview that he was in talks with Lucasfilm about taking on a Star Wars film, but it doesn’t sound like that’s something he’s going to do anytime soon.
“Well Kathy and I have discussed the possibility of—I mean she’s basically saying this is a very large sandbox and other people can play in it. I was particularly attracted to the idea of picking up and—J.J. got very excited about the notion of shaping the next trilogy, and that idea was interesting to me too. But I kind of—I’m writing a sequel to The Incredibles and I can’t think too much farther beyond that. I have other things I want to do as well.”
I’d love to see Bird take on one of those Star Wars Anthology films one day. I think he could do something really cool with that franchise. I'm just happy to know that he's engulfing himself with this Incredibles sequel next, though.