Buena Vista Home Entertainment is getting set to release Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles, Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature and Sound Editing, on DVD and ComingSoon.net got a chance to talk to writer/director Brad Bird this weekend. The 2-Disc Collector's Edition (read our review) includes an all-new, never-before-seen animated short "Jack-Jack Attack," which uncovers Jack-Jack's previously unknown super powers and reveals what happened while Jack-Jack was alone for one truly outrageous night of babysitting.

We asked Bird if there are any plans for a sequel. "If I had an idea that I felt was as good and better than the one we did, you don't just want to repeat yourself. You want to take it in a new direction. If I could find something as good as 'Toy Story 2' was to 'Toy Story', I would love to return to the world. But I think it's also about assembling the original team and respecting the audience and all of that. I think if those things can happen, I love the characters and I love the
world and I'd love to do more with them."

With more and more studios turning to computer animation, Bird was asked if he thought Pixar would ever make a hand-drawn feature. "It's the strangest wish fulfillment thing for everyone to want that. I don't know of any plans to do it, but I also know that this company never says never to anything. I think the only thing they say 'never' to is they will never cheap out and do something less than cynical and give the audience less than what they expect in terms of Pixar's best. Every time I think that I figured them out in terms of what they're gonna do, something shifts and something new happens there. So, there are no plans to do one, but the moment that I said it will never happen, probably someone would say, 'Hey! Have you heard about the new hand-drawn project?' It's a wild place; it does not exist to put technology on the screen, it exists for character and stories. And if they felt there was a story better told hand-drawn, I don't think the fact they are know for computer animation would stop them."

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.......cool, as long as they do it just as good as the original or even better, theres no problem with me...

Good news - can't wait.

The Incredibles 2? COOL!!! bring it, baby.

Fantastico...especially after it's 2 Oscar wins.

The first one was great! I can't wait for it.

As long as Pixar does it and not Disney....

Alllllllllright. I can't wait to see it.

I'd rather them do a sequel to Finding Neverland or something, not The Incredibles, but that's just my personal preference. Either way, their films are always quality, but I do prefer some over others.

PEACE, Mike

Wait...doesn't Disney own the rights to all the Pixar franchises that get made before the Pixar-Disney split? I thought that meant Pixar cannot legally make an Incredibles sequel. Unless they cut some one-picture-only deal with Disney... ???



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