It seems that Oscars-winning director Brad Bird, who helmed “The Incredibles” when it was released to theaters in 2004 and who shall also be helming the sequel, got to a rather good head start in both the pre-production and production works for “The Incredibles 2” that a release date that is one year earlier has become possible.
When the original film was released in 2004, it grossed more than $633 million in the global box office.
Disney and Pixar are hoping that “The Incredibles 2” shall go on to join the prestigious billion dollar club which several of its animated movies got into including “Frozen,” “Zootopia,” and just recently “Finding Dory.”
Also in the list of the animated billion-dollar club films is the “Minions” by Universal and Illumination Entertainment.
The pushed up release date of “The Incredibles 2” has certainly excited its enthusiastic and anxiously awaiting fans as the sequel to the 2004 hit movie shall come out 14 years later and no longer 15 years.
While the switch in the release dates would not affect the plotlines of both films, what seems clear is that an earlier date on the theaters for a long-awaited sequel usually brings positive results as seen in the case of “Finding Dory” which came out in June this year, 13 years after its predecessor movie “Finding Nemo” hit the cinemas.