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In case anyone was still holding out any hope for the Pixar-less Toy Story 3 project, here's some news that might make you think twice. The director was just announced today, apparently.

Bradley Raymond will direct Toy Story 3, which Walt Disney Pictures is planning for a 2008 theatrical release. Raymond previously helmed direct-to-DVD/video Disney titles The Lion King 1½ and The Hunchback of Notre Dame II.

Disney Feature Animation is making the third film without Pixar and basing the next installment on a script by young writer Jared Stern. Stern developed a story idea for the long-in-the-works "TS3" on spec while a member of Disney's Feature Animation Writing Program.

Stern's new take is expected to advance the "Toy Story" franchise by taking the characters on the road and out of Andy's room. Stern is also understood to have invented a couple of new characters for the next installment.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8742

Was it The Incredibles that was Pixar's last project with Disney, or is it going to be that car movie?

The car one is their last collaboration.

Raymond previously helmed direct-to-DVD/video Disney titles The Lion King 1½ and The Hunchback of Notre Dame II.

Oh, fantastic.

My childhood is being raped every week.

I never like it when a news story refers to a series of movies as a franchise. It's almost as if they think of Toy Story as a way to get giant gobs of money as opposed to genuinely entertaining people. Almost.

Amazing Grant wrote:In case anyone was still holding out any hope for the Pixar-less Toy Story 3 project, here's some news that might make you think twice. The director was just announced today, apparently.

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Stern's new take is expected to advance the "Toy Story" franchise by taking the characters on the road and out of Andy's room. Stern is also understood to have invented a couple of new characters for the next installment.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8742

So in other words, Toy Story 3 will be. . . Toy Story 2?

Double-S- wrote:My childhood is being raped every week.

I love this quote. I've never heard anybody say it so honestly and straight to the point. I totally agree with you S.

Timestones wrote: So in other words, Toy Story 3 will be. . . Toy Story 2?

I was also confused by the "We're taking the toys out of Andy's room this time!" thing, as if it were novel or something, considering that that had been the plot of the previous two films.

lol but this time they go xxtreme sk8bording!!!!11

Is it going to be going to be drawn or 3D?

Disney's goin down the drain nowadays...only thing it has for us today is Kingdom Hearts, and that was mostly Squaresoft. Most of Disney is a bunch of fags who think traditional animation is "obsolete." Though I'm somewhat interested in this new Toy Story.

Disney dissolved their traditional animation department. Idiots. Disney is dead to me.

Did they make anything worth watching after the Lion King, anyway?

Not really. Lilo and Stitch, maybe. Everything else, no.

Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King. It's incredibly sad to see what they are now.

Not even the Emperor's New Groove? I reckon that was Disney's last great animated movie.

It was funny, but hardly a classic.

It was worth a watch, at the very least.

Without Pixar now-a-days, Disney would be absolutely nothing. I reckon that this Toy Story 3 is going to be pretty mediocre, because with that Dinosaurs movie, Disney have proved that they have absolutely no creative abilities whatsoever by themselves.

I rather liked Emperor's New Groove.

Also, is anything from our collective childhoods not going to be raped and/or destroyed?

Mario's still safe.

*knocks on wood*

Are you sure about that Zeta?

I think the problem is just that the Disney template is tired. Their formula is so predictable that after awhile you don't even need to watch their films in the first place. Every time they try to make a new "classic" it just feels like another rehash.

Both the Emperor's New Groove and Home on the Range were quite good, but they were disposable, not classics. They didn't even try to be. Both of those films originally began as more standard "classic" Disney template fare. They were chopped up and retooled as buddy comedies because they were not shaping up appropriately. In other words, before the retools those two films were going to be even shittier than the shitty template movies Disney actually finished. And they did so much work on them before finally abandonning them! It really shows what a mess Disney's feature animation studios were in.

Now, Lilo and Stitch was a really great movie. It was great because it never even tried to be like the classics. It was an experiment... Chris Saunders was given a (relatively) low budget, but also lot more freedom to direct the project personally. The result was a film that was unique, but without being, you know, TOO unique to put Disney off. I really wish Disney did more of this kind of thing -- funding the dream movies of different artists. I am looking forward to Saunders' next project, though.

Segaholic2 wrote:Not really. Lilo and Stitch, maybe. Everything else, no.

Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King. It's incredibly sad to see what they are now.

Lilo and Stitch the movie was great, but the series is so crappy. I mean a universe with space travel and maybe magic and the best they can come up with is a poor excuse for a Pokemon wanna be.

Atlantis was their last good movie in my opinion.

I've not seen Atlantis, it's been on Disney Channel for a long time and I've just never been bothered to watch.

To be honest, besides the Pixar movies, I've not enjoyed Disney's features since the good old days of Beauty and the Beast, Aladin and >.> Kimba the White Lion (The Motion Picture).

Always preferred Don Bleuth's films, because they are entertaining for children, but dark and edgy with mature concepts, which can be suitable for adults aswell as kids (except Fival goes West and the other sequels, which were kiddie crap).

Where the heck is Bleuth anyway? After he makes his first major screw up (Titan A.E) his name hasn't had a thing attached to it. Kids today need another Nimh, or All Dogs. Heck, I'd settle with a Thumbalina or Anastasia (which, though both childish movies marketted at young girls, are oddly entertaining)

Disney should die, already, or submit to just making series. That said, they cancelled Filmore! and okayed American Dragon.

Disney should just sod off and stick to whoring the image at Disney World.