Apparently, the animated studio partner of Disney shall be concentrating on original movies after the three films in the pipeline, which could be an indication that it would do so around 2018 or 2019, when “The Incredibles 2” is officially released to theaters.
But according to Jim Morris, Pixar Studios president, there are other difficulties that they have to face to do sequels. He explained that most studios jump on doing a sequel as soon as they have a successful film.
He said that their business model is a filmmaker model and they don’t make a sequel unless the director of the original film has an idea that he or she likes and is willing to pursue.
Morris pointed out that a sequel is even harder to do than the original because they have already a defined world and the expectations are so much that they can’t afford to be a disappointment at all.
The difficulty of coming out with a good sequel was proven back in 2011 when “Cars 2” only managed a Metacritic score of 57 and just 39% on Rotten Tomatoes, the lowest for any Pixar film. The director’s availability for the sequel is often a problem for Pixar too.