'The Incredibles 2' News: Story May Pick Up In Real Time After First Film, Will Focus On Family Dynamic
Not much is known about the forthcoming sequel to 2004's Pixar animated film "The Incredibles" apart from the fact that it will be released in June 2019 and that "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" director Brad Bird will helm the film. Bird directed his first animated feature, "The Iron Giant," in 1999, and has since developed other animated films like "The Incredibles" (2004) and "Ratatouille" (2007).
The announcement that Disney will be releasing a sequel to "The Incredibles" came in 2014, almost a decade after the original film's director expressed his interest in making a sequel should he ever come up with a great follow-up story. Now, Bird is reportedly working on "The Incredibles" script, telling Collider in 2015 that he has already written "a bunch of pages" of the screenplay and revealing that he had a lot of ideas for the first "Incredibles" that were not used in the film.
"I have ideas that I wanted to pursue a little bit and there wasn't enough time in 'Incredibles,'" the director said. "There are new ideas I have, and I think there are enough of those together to make an interesting movie."
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As for how "The Incredibles 2" will pick up the story from where it left off at the end of the first film, Screen Rant suggests that the sequel may be set fifteen years from "The Incredibles," reflecting real time. This is similar to what happened in Pixar's mega-hit "Toy Story 3," which was released eleven years after "Toy Story 2." This would mean that the characters from the first film will be much older, with Violet and Dash as young adults and Jack-Jack as a teenager. The parents, Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl, may have either retired by then or will at least be taking a less active role in things.
If this is the case, the story may center on Jack-Jack's coming of age and learning to deal with his superpowers and/or the three siblings taking on the bad guys without their parents' help. According to a CinemaBlend interview with Bird, the director said, "For me, the interesting thing was never the superhero part of it." He added: "It was more the family dynamic, and how do superhero things play into that. So the movie is a step further in that direction – but I do have a story idea that I think is very intriguing, and not like anything else."
"The Incredibles 2" is scheduled to land in movie theaters on June 21, 2019.
