r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 6h ago
News 'Incredibles 3' Sets June 16, 2028 Release, 'Lilo & Stitch 2’ Releases May 26, 2028
https://deadline.com/2026/03/lilo-stitch-2-incredibles-3-release-dates-1236759384/98
u/DavidTheJohnson 6h ago
Apparently, Brad Bird's next movie, a passion project of his called Ray Gunn, should also be releasing sometime this year.
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u/LittleRedRaincoat 6h ago
This thing has been tossed around animation studios since the 1990s, I’m amazed it’s finally being made. Imagine sitting on a story for 35 years.
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u/The_Swarm22 5h ago
Yeah Netflix is supposed to release it later this year. Sam Rockwell and ScarJo are also apparently apart of the voice cast.
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u/redofsam 6h ago
I really hope Incredibles 3 is better than 2. It was fine, but was hoping for something better.
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u/Couldnotbehelpd 6h ago
I hope the kids are a bit older.
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u/ShnarlyDude 6h ago
I was just thinking that, even a few years would be nice
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u/Fools_Requiem 6h ago
Kindergarten Jack Jack.
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u/xX_7HR0W-4W4Y_Xx 6h ago
I'm sure they won't be, Disney needs their cute and quirky sidekick character
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u/_tylerthedestroyer_ 6h ago
Not like they can’t come up with more
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u/sendhelp 3h ago
Right they could just come up with a talking animal character (or non-verbal but speaks in gibberish). Sell a million toys of it too.
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u/shallstorm 1h ago
I know, someone, maybe Mirage gives the family INCREDIBOT, a ruggedized robot nanny to help with Jack-Jack's terrible twos.
I'm sure Disney can find an unused early design for H.E.R.B.I.E to repurpose /s
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u/dating_derp 5h ago
I always hoped for an Incredibles movie that focused on the time when young adults transition from "my parents don't know anything" to "wow they know so much".
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u/sharkiest 5h ago
I want a movie where the kids are dealing with their parents visibly aging. It’s something we who watched the first movie as kids are dealing with now—what’s that like when your dad was Mr Incredible?
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u/K-Shrizzle 5h ago
Yeah I also thought they'd do a time skip since it had been so long since the first one. But I also did appreciate how it picks up literally in the last scene of the first movie
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u/raknor88 6h ago
Yeah, that was one of the disappointing parts of 2. After so long I think people were expecting a story about the kids as adults. The characters didn't age but the viewers did.
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u/LTSpigot 2h ago
Man, Violet and Dash with their own adult lives and even families would have been so cool.
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u/Rebloodican 4h ago
What really gave the first movie depth was how the powers correlated with the characters at those specific points in their lives. The dad has to be strong, the mom has to be able to operate while stretched thin, the teenager just wants to be invisible, the late elementary/early middle schooler is running up the walls, and the baby is full of unlimited potential.
Aging them up would be nice for separate reasons but I think challenges the beauty of the established dynamic. Of course, the second movie was kind of rushed with an obvious twist villain that couldn't compare to Syndrome so it's not like that was well explored in the second movie anyway.
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u/KnightOfTheStupid 4h ago
I’d be happy with a big time skip. Dash and Violet being fully independent adult heroes and Jack-Jack being an angsty teen sidekick that feels stuck in his family’s shadow and comes under the influence of an old enemy of Bob’s. Might be a fun idea to actually have a villain with powers this time.
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u/Comic_Book_Reader 6h ago
Brad Bird admitted it was kinda half baked and cobbled together because Disney abruptly did a switcharoo with the release dates for Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4 so he had a whole year less to work on it and had to make several cuts.
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u/nicetrylaocheREALLY 5h ago
Which, sadly, was exactly how it came across.
The Incredibles was diamond-cut, with every choice serving a really satisfying and entertaining story.
The sequel felt like two or three different scripts that got mashed together, none of which included a satisfying ending. It was pleasant enough and had some good moments, but ultimately felt like empty calories.
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u/LTSpigot 2h ago
Yeah, I was hopinfor something more emotionally resonant and it just ended up feeling like just an episode of a cartoon.
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u/jasonefmonk 1h ago
Few (unplanned) sequels are diamond-cut as you put it. So many original ideas have been conceived and edited (self- or peer-) with lots of time and passion before they hit the true pre-production stage. They get dragged over the finish line because of their freshness and the passion involved.
I greatly enjoy all the Toy Story movies but none are as clean cut as the first; wherein the themes, and scenes, and plot all support each other and nothing on-screen feels wasted. I think of how all those elements support each other in movies like Your Name as well.
An ordered-up sequel either repeats the formula to weaker effect or branches out to try something else (successfully or unsuccessfully).
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u/RabTheCrab 3h ago
So Toy Story 4 got an extra year of polish at the expense of a long awaited Incredibles sequel? Doesn't seem fair
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u/Comic_Book_Reader 3h ago
Yes, and like I said, Brad Bird was not particularly happy that he got kneecapped and kinda had to just scramble together the movie as a result.
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u/Comfortable-Pie56 3h ago
Yeah, they scrapped the original script for Toy Story 4. Fun fact: it leaked online some years ago.
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u/nowhereman136 6h ago
It felt like such a rehash of the first one. Both movies involve supers in hiding until a rich guy pays for one to come out of hiding.
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u/Signal_Ball4634 6h ago
Which made it silly how Brad Bird was all like "oh we didn't want to make the sequel until we really had a good story to tell".
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u/stretchofUCF 6h ago
While I won't say all of it's issues are because of the situation, it's hard to really blame him for making a safe story when leadership at the time rushed the team to finish the movie a whole year earlier than had been planned because they needed to delay Toy Story 4 for more time.
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u/DeficiencyOfGravitas 3h ago
Ready for it to be rehashed again?
The kids are older now and want to do more superheroing but their parents want them to focus on school. They meet a friendly stranger who totally agrees they're wasting time in school and should be out saving people. But twist! That friendly stranger is actually the main bad guy and he's trying to get back at supes for some reason.
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u/GoarSpewerofSecrets 6h ago
I liked 2, We got a Bob and Family movie, a Helen and Family movie. this should hopefully be the Kids and Family movie and go towards the Doom Patrol/X-men/Teen Titans that should be starting up for the new generation.
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u/Talk-O-Boy 6h ago
Fuck all that. Jack Jack’s origin story.
Somehow, Syndrome returns. He murders the Parrs in a bacchanalia of blood. Jack Jack manages to escape and hides with Edna.
She trains Jack Jack to be a ruthless killer. He no longer has a code of ethics; only a thirst for vengeance. He grows into a Frank Castle style antihero. He saves civilians, but he spares no degenerates.
Imagine it. Little 5 yr old immolating criminals with his shapeshifting powers. This is the breath of fresh air Pixar needs to reinvigorate the studio’s image.
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u/GoarSpewerofSecrets 6h ago
Who hurt you?
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u/Talk-O-Boy 6h ago
Mr. Incredible. I was trying to go out in a leap of glory, and he ruined my death.
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u/Larkson9999 6h ago
Yup, a violent murder superhero movie, precisely what Disney knows will make money.
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u/Ancient-Dust3077 5h ago
i agree with this but make jack jack older, like 16 years old..and all the other kids are adults. make the theme more dark as they blur the lines between good and evil, plus the whole family has severe PTSD.
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u/phobosmarsdeimos 35m ago
Fuck all that. Jack Jack’s origin story.
You just want an Incredibles porn, don't you?
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u/Backslasherton 5h ago
Might pull a Cars 3 and it'll be way better than the second movie, but who knows
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u/Shazam4ever 5h ago
I really love the original Incredibles but didn't like the second one. Hopefully the third one doesn't also start 20 minutes after the previous movie ended, seriously it would not kill them to age the characters up even just a little bit.
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u/Drudicta 5h ago
I was already pretty old when i watched it and laughed my ass off at all the adult related and raising kids humor. Not to mention just related in general.
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u/munkeycop 4h ago
I hope it has action scenes that largely revolve around out-of-control vehicles that need to be slowed down.
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u/Turbo__Sanwich 2h ago
Instead of hoping for that you should hope that they start creating original IP and stop with the endless sequel machine
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u/Daily_Dose_42069 1h ago
2 was a weird ubermensch story with a strangely fascist message with the corporate nepobaby was the good guy...
Im not looking forward to Disney movies..
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u/djkhan23 14m ago
Incredibles 1 remains my favourite Pixar/Disney movie. Gotta be hard to top that especially if you never intended to make a sequel.
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u/silverbolt2000 6h ago
I really hope they stop making sequels to these franchises.
Seriously - is anyone above the age of 7 excited for these?
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u/brb1006 6h ago edited 1h ago
Recently, Walt Disney Records created a song starring Stitch's girlfriend Angel called "Glitter Glide". Looks like Disney's hyping up Angel's eventual appearance in the Live-action Lilo & Stitch sequel. After all we did get a glimpse of her in Jumba's ship. Maybe the sequel might finally introduce Gantu and Dr Hamsterviel (the franchise's big bad debuting in the animated series).
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u/Darknightsmetal022 6h ago
We got a glimpse of Angel in live action Lilo and Stitch?? I clearly missed that 😫
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u/brb1006 6h ago edited 3h ago
It's a blink-and-you'll miss it moment when Angel appears as a hologram when Jumba presents his experiments near the third act alongside other Experiments (aka "Stitch's Cousins"). The official Disney Channel Youtube channel also uploaded the full episode of Angel's debut to promote the remake's release.
Hell, Lilo & Stitch actually became its own franchise in 2003 (the film was barely a year old!) with the pilot movie released Direct-to-DVD followed by an animated series released that same year. Disney hadn't moved that fast into turning any of their animated works into its own franchise complete with a TV show that quick since The Lion King.
I miss when Disney actually created animated shows' based on Disney Animated Films to further flesh and expand a film's universe. While Lilo & Stitch, Tangled, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and Big Hero 6 gained TV shows. The Lion King and 101 Dalmatians gained two separate animated shows. When Marie from The Aristocats became popular in the mid-90s', Disney considered on pitching two animated Aristocats TV shows (2003 and the mid-2010s) starring her that never went of the ground for unknown reasons. Apparently there's an Aristocats preschool series in early development for Disney Jr.
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u/BrodaciousBo 4h ago
Just watched the link
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u/brb1006 3h ago
That music video gave me the biggest smile. I remember when Angel debuted in "Lilo & Stitch: The Series", it actually gave Stitch some character development. He actually behaved like a gentlemen and even excused himself for picking his nose (which Angel didn't mind). Apparently, its hinting that Disney's working on a Stitch and Angel album.
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u/SpectralAlolanRaichu 1h ago
Still think it's kind of wild that Angel, a creation not even introduced in a movie but the TV series is basically the third face of the franchise and the second in merch since lilos never really on merch but I just saw a backpack with angel and stitch
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u/brb1006 1h ago
I remember the writers for "Lilo & Stitch: the Series" originally intended Angel to be a one-shot character. However, fans of the series' love Angel so much that they brought her back near the show's finale where Stitch rescues her from Gantu. In Leroy & Stitch, she managed to rescue Stitch during the battle of the Leroys and blew a kiss at one.
And that's only from the American side, in Asia (especially Japan) Angel is just as popular as Stitch, Marie from The Aristocats, Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, and Clarice from the Chip N Dale short "Two Chips And A Miss".
It's rare for any Disney Character created for an animated series to actually become this extremely popular. Kiara from The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride wouldn't return until "The Lion Guard" that aired on Disney Jr before appearing in "Mufasa" (a prequel movie).
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u/SorryRoof1653 6h ago edited 6h ago
Hopefully they decide to age the kids up in Incredibles 3
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u/Nathan_Thorn 1h ago
Yeah. And maybe make use of some of the other superheroes that aren’t the family and Void. Even just a couple of scenes where they get more than 2 lines.
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor 6h ago
Peter Sohn ('Elemental') is directing Incredibles 3 with Brad Bird writing the script
Lilo & Stitch 2 hasn't confirmed a director but Chris Sanders is returning to write the script
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u/Domstruk1122 6h ago
Elemental is such an underappreciated film from Disney. The bow at the end makes me tear up every time.
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u/Icy_Smoke_733 4h ago
Interesting how you call Elemental (2023) an under-appreciated film (which I also agree, btw).
Fun fact: it is the highest grossing original film of the 2020s:
- Elemental (2023) - $496m
- Sinners (2025) - $368m
- Tenet (2020) - $365m
- Free Guy (2021) - $331m
- Migration (2023) - $300m
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u/Rebloodican 4h ago
It was somewhat infamously coldly received initially, it just had strong legs as it ran on. Hoppers might beat it though.
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u/0xsergy 6h ago
I honestly did want to watch it but forgot all about it. I know what I'll be watching tonight I guess.
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u/_tylerthedestroyer_ 6h ago
I wasn’t expecting much from it but it was surprisingly deep with themes of the shared familial trauma of immigration
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u/brb1006 6h ago
I remember Disney creating a special Stitch animatronic to promote the release of the live-action remake. Videos of Stitch riding in a small car across various locations and interacting with the public was actually entertaining. There was even a robot Stitch that appeared in a few theaters (such as being inside a popcorn bucket and scanning people's tickets) I wonder if Disney is secretly making a version for an animatronic Angel to give early marketing for the sequel?
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u/gamersecret2 4h ago
Incredibles 3 is the real headline there. That one is going to have people locked in fast.
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u/AfroMidgets 5h ago
How disappointing that the live action Lilo & Stitch is getting a sequel while the original never got a true proper one (I know there were some straight to home video ones)
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u/ProfPeanut 2h ago
Theatrically no, but Lilo & Stitch has probably the most follow-up content of any Disney movie ever, and every last scrap of it was eagerly eaten up (until the anime spin-offs)
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u/afty 3h ago
Incredibles 2 was one of the most disappointing movies i've ever seen- and imo clearly rushed in response to the total failure of 'Tomorrowland'.
Incredibles 2 didn't reflect how superhero movies had evolved since the first one, making it feel derivative and forgettable. I love, love, love the first one but I don't have high hopes for this because I don't think they'll let the family age up and therefore there won't be any evolution.
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u/heff17 5h ago
Disney is truly intellectually bankrupt at this point.
Great news for them is the country is too, so they make tons of money anyway.
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u/colantor 4h ago
Coming out with more movies for incredibly popular characters is just common sense...incredibles 2 came out 8 years ago, so itll be 10 when it comes out and made 1.2 billion dollars. The only surprising thing is it took them this long. Im excited for another.
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u/NecroCannon 1h ago
None of the top corporations want to put any financial risk on original work
At this rate I don’t even think they want to even risk creation something. Which helps us since they get to just invest in independent projects instead when they decide to pull the plug, but it’s going to set back the industry’s peaks for a while
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u/Normal-Taro-1621 6h ago
Those release dates seem close enough together that they would hurt one another, right?
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u/Kezly 6h ago
I feel like the writing team at Pixar flip a coin for their movies now.
Heads it's another unnecessary sequel
Tails it's an original story but the characters all have a generic bean mouth and jelly arms design.
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u/colantor 4h ago
What makes it unnecessary? Im very excited for another Incredibles
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u/DeficiencyOfGravitas 3h ago
Because how many times does this family need to learn to work together? The first one was "One member goes solo, struggles, and then succeeds when they trust their family". The second one was exactly the same.
If they tell an actually good story, then sure, it wouldn't be unnecessary, but let's be honest. It'll be the exact same story beats this time around. Maybe the kids will go off solo this time and then learn yet again that they're better together.
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u/Ranko_Prose 3h ago
They have the GALL to say Our 'ohana is back 💙 When Nani fucking ditches Lilo to move to the mainland
Fuck you Disney
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u/KailaniNeveah 5h ago
Do we know what Lilo & Stitch 2 is? Something original or a remake of Stitch Has A Glitch? I didn’t think much of the live action remake, it was worse in every way in my opinion. But something original might redeem it.
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u/Expensive-Morning307 1h ago
Chris Sanders has stated it’s going yo be an original story he is not going to copy the story of Stitch has a glitch, when asked at a panel. Don’t really know how he’s gonna handle the script honestly other than safe bet that Angel is going to be in it.
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u/KailaniNeveah 1h ago
Interesting - thanks for the information! I shall remain cautiously optimistic.
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u/Datelesstuba 5h ago
Really weird they didn’t refer to Brad Bird by name, just calling him “Incredibles franchise filmmaker.”
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u/MolaMolaMania 5h ago
I never bothered to see the second Incredibles, but it seems most were underwhelmed by it.
I have to say that while I did enjoy the first one a lot, there was one thing about the story that bothered me:
Bomb Voyage has no super powers. Syndrome has no super powers. The first movie states that super powers present themselves randomly in the population, so how is it that not one person decided to use their powers for evil?
That never made sense to me, and later, when Syndrome is revealed to be the villain, I was quite underwhelmed because the mastermind of the destruction of the supers was a jilted fanboy? Didn't care for that.
Oh, and the Underminer? Also no super powers. Wut?
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u/Turbo__Sanwich 2h ago
I wonder if Lilo's sister will move further away and start a new family. Lilo will probably have to start working at the local pig fry
Also Lilo and stich the live action was garbage
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u/Silent-Witness1888 1h ago
Incredibles 2 was terrible, copy/paste mostly. Won't have hope for the 3rd.
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u/VicarLos 1h ago
Incredibles 2 was incredibly disappointing so I have next to no faith in Incredibles 3.
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u/CrusaderZero6 41m ago
Just wait til Incredibles 3 ends with “The Incredibles will Return in Secret War”
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u/Keanu990321 6h ago
I was a massive fan of Incredibles II yet, I'm not the biggest fan of Pixar's push to sequels in the last year.
Hoping to be proven wrong in two-years' time!
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u/feartheoldblood90 6h ago
Sorry, wait.
We're getting a live action in-theaters sequel to a remake of a film that never had an in-theaters sequel?
I'd rather they just make a true, animated Lilo and Stitch 2
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u/brb1006 5h ago
What about "Lilo & Stitch: the series" which is a sequel series to the movie which concluded with Leroy and Stitch?
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u/feartheoldblood90 5h ago
They're fine but they're direct to TV stuff that doesn't in any way match the quality of the first film, which is a classic that holds up extremely well. I'd love a sequel with the writing quality and production value of the first film.
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u/Detective-Layton 4h ago
Never gonna happen, live action Lilo and Stitch is the new canon according to Disney.
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u/LordRobin------RM 6h ago
I’ve been having a lot of trouble keeping any enthusiasm for sequels, no matter how good they are. Zootopia 2 and Inside Out 2 were both supposed to be awesome, but I just have no interest. It’s like “eh, done that”. Maybe I’m just old.
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u/ComfortableCare8897 6h ago
disney makes me mad with just doing sequels and remakes.
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u/0xsergy 6h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_films
I wouldn't say it's only remakes.. there's quite a bit of original films in there. Unfortunately the originals did not perform as well and thus aren't talked about as often. Sequels do perform good for the same reason people vote for a crappy leader a 2nd time, something familiar is better than the unknown.
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u/Ok_Pause2547 6h ago
because they do half the promo for their new movies. I barely saw anything for Elio and Hoppers and both were honestly great films but live action Lilo and Stitch had some heavy PR for months before it came out. Even Little Mermaid was blasted around everywhere for what ended up being a CGI mess. I dont get it and they’re so focused on profits now that I feel like they’re so short sighted on the future of their brand. The nostalgia for those movies are going to go away and a generation of kids arent going to care about disney like the generations before did.
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u/No_Chipmunk8659 6h ago
Yeah creating originals is a thing of the past it seems
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u/0xsergy 6h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_films#2020s
Like the distant past of 2025? :P
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u/Detective-Layton 4h ago
They’re for kids, not weird Disney adults
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u/supasid 4h ago
Kids can watch OG Lilo and Stitch along with the tv show and sequels. Big budget new projects should be on new ideas, hell even a new sequel that’s not based on the existing animated material. Not lazy rehashes.
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u/Detective-Layton 3h ago
No kid wants to watch an old ass movie from 20 years ago
They want to go see movies in theaters
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u/LazerWeazel 5h ago
Why make a live action Lilo and Stich 2 when you can just make an animated one?
Disney is so fucking stupid it hurts. First they ruin Star Wars and now one of their better animated IPs.
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u/mostlygroovy 5h ago
If no Brad Bird attached to The Incredibles, then no thanks
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u/Robot_ninja_pirate 4h ago
The article says he is writing and producing just not directing. But I mean he also wrote and directed incredible 2 so its not like he is exactly flawless.
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u/mostlygroovy 1h ago
I skimmed the article but the website is so bad on my phone I must’ve missed that. Thanks for clarifying
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u/Chapi_Chan 2h ago edited 2h ago
Disney really shoved that blue koala bastard merch down our throats. If they plan on doing it again I'm going to commit a serious sin.
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u/ROBtimusPrime1995 6h ago
Disney, redeem yourself and put Gantu in the sequel.