Pixar's Pete Docter Teases TOY STORY 5 Calling It "Surprising" and Featuring "Some Really Cool Stuff That You Haven't Seen Before"

Fans were pretty surprised a couple of weeks ago when CEO Bob Iger reported in Disney’s earnings call that their animation production teams were developing the sequels Frozen 3, Toy Story 5, and Zootopia 2. These are favorite franchises of Disney and Pixar fans, and sure to bring families to the theaters. While the Frozen and Zootopia sequels aren’t that surprising, a new Toy Story movie is a little more surprising, as the third and fourth films each had their own final-feeling endings. But if they have an idea to further the story in a way that makes sense, they are going to do it, and we are going to show up for it.

In a recent interview with The Wrap, veteran Disney/Pixar writer, director and producer Pete Docter sat down to talk about the upcoming projects, and when asked about the next Toy Story film, he said:

“The thing we’ve been really trying to do, and this has been the case for a while, is we’ve been looking at them a little bit like, okay, we’re not planning for the future. When we made the first ‘Toy Story,’ we had no idea there would be a ‘Toy Story 2.’ We’re just trying to make this movie. But that in making the movie, it takes you places, unexpected places, which is what I love about the creative process. If I knew exactly what I was doing when I started making a movie, there’d kind of be no point in making it. I discover so much along the way.”

Docter equates the creative process to going on a trip where you have a specific destination in mind but along the way you get sidetracked and “come home wiser and more worldly.” He specifically said of the fifth Toy Story film:

“I think it’ll be surprising. It’s got some really cool stuff that you haven’t seen before.”

I don’t doubt that. I was really skeptical about Toy Story 4, as the third film left us with what felt like the perfect end to the franchise, but then I ended up really enjoying the story they told. I am confident that if they’re making another film, it’s going to be good.

What do you think about the fifth Toy Story that’s in the works?