Ugh. Well, we can say goodbye to any chances
Wreck-It Ralph had of getting a sequel. There was talk of one almost as soon as it came out, but probably only because it was the most successful film they'd had in a while. I've heard it said that Disney didn't expect
Frozen to be such a big hit, but I don't know if I believe it, because even before it had come out it seemed like Disney was trying to actively bury
Wreck-It Ralph to get people hyped for the Next Big Thing. I kid you not, I was at the giant Disney store at Disney World last October and they were already totally out of anything Wreck-It Ralph related. I guess they figure anything that isn't part of the Cars or Disney Princesses franchises isn't worth pursuing. Oh, all that money it raked in? Just toss it on the fire, I guess. It's not the
good kind of money.
dragongit said:
I'd rather see a sequel to Wreck it Ralph. That movie has sequel potential if they had stuck to their original idea of hopping from game to game throughout the movie, instead of just a few.
Was it actually
their original idea, or just the initial impression
you got from seeing the deliberately-misleading trailers?
No, seriously, that's an honest question; I know next to nothing about the movie's production since Disney is too lazy to include any behind-the-scenes features anymore even on the fucking $30 Blu-Ray combo pack.
DoctorM said:
Walt Disney Animation Studios does NOT do sequels (Rescuers Down Under aside). The division that WAS responsible for all those direct to video crap was DisneyToon Studios.
Walt was always against it and John Lasetter is responsible for stopping the sequels. I have a lot of respect for him for doing that.
He put DisneyToon onto original material such as the Disney Fairies and Planes series.
Now here is the important bit: DisneyToon has had a lot of layoffs and no announced movies in the pipeline. All that is left is a final Fairy movie that they are wrapping up. Normally we'd know what they're coming out with for the next coule years.
It's not impossible that they may go back to doing sequels, but Lasetter seemed pretty adamant about those things being an embarrassment to the studio.
He didn't seem to be against making sequel after sequel to Pixar movies, though. So either he didn't think his own movies had any value to ruin, or his tune changed very shortly after being brought under the thumb of Iger and Co.
