At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.
I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?
I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done.
At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.
I'm not a big fan of remakes. I never wanted to do a remake.
A lot of people ask for sequels, but what they really want is just to know the characters are happy and safe.
Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.
You get involved with a studio, and optional pictures and sequel options and that sort of thing are becoming part and parcel with the roles they're handing out.
I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.
People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.