John Lasseter Toy Story 3 in 3-D
Disney/Pixar Movie Directed By Lee Unkrich, Comes June 2010
Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 3 will be released in 3-D, as will the two previous movies. Lee Unkrich will direct flick, coming June of 2010.
It was only a matter of time before Disney really jumped on the 3-D bandwagon that überdirector James Cameron (Avatar) and DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg (Monsters vs. Aliens) have been trumpeting as the next big thing in movies.
The Mouse House has been dipping their toe in the 3-D waters for two years now with their Halloween reissues of Tim Burton's stop motion classic The Nightmare Before Christmas. Those theatrical re-releases have been highly successful, so it was only a matter of time before Disney really took the plunge.
The big news for animation fans, is that the Mouse House announced that they're going 3-D with Pixar's only movie franchise to date: Toy Story.
Yes, you read that right. Toy Story 3, which comes to the silver screen in June of 2010, will also be released in stereoscopic 3-D. And that's not all.
First Two Toy Story Movies Getting 3-D Treatment Too
In order to get Toy Story fans pumped for the latest installment, Disney/Pixar plan to re-release the first two flicks in theatres in the spring of 2010. The original 1995 movie, plus the 1999 sequel, will also get the 3-D treatment. Disney chief creative officer John Lasseter is overseeing the process.
Lasseter, who directed the first two flicks, is taking a back seat on this one. Lee Unkrich, who co-directed Toy Story 2, will be the one telling Woody and Buzz Lightyear what to do this time around. However, Lasseter and Oscar-winning screenwriter Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine) will be working on the story.
Stars Tom Hanks (the voice of Woody) and Tim Allen (Buzz Lightyear) have already announced that they will reprise their roles in the new movie. John Ratzenberger's involvement in Toy Story 3 is a given, considering that he has voiced a role in every single Pixar flick to date.
Considering that Toy Story 2 was that rare sequel that actually improved on the original, and that Lasseter is luring top-notch scripters to Pixar (Little Miss Sunshine was an excellent movie), it's safe to say that this next movie is in very good hands.
Fun Fact: Little Miss Sunshine won the 2007 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. The Best Original Screenplay award is the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' way of saying, "We would love to give this film the Best Picture Oscar, but we lack the courage. So we're gonna give it to a movie that's more commercial."
