Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney(NEW YORK) — In an interview with Collider to promote his upcoming George Clooney Disney adventure Tomorrowland, writer-director Brad Bird confirmed one of his biggest hits, The Incredibles, is finally getting a sequel.
Explaining that he’s got “a bunch of pages,” for a follow up to the Oscar winning Pixar superhero movie, the Simpsons veteran and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol director explained, “I had a lot of ideas for the original Incredibles that I didn’t get a chance to use,” adding, “There are new ideas I have, and I think there are enough of those together to make an interesting movie.”
As for Star Wars, lifelong fan Bird confirmed there was interest in having him come aboard, even though J.J. Abrams landed the Force Awakens gig. Bird tells Collider he met with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy about the job, explaining, “J.J. got very excited about the notion of shaping the next trilogy, and that idea was interesting to me too,” however, the busy filmmaker said an Incredibles sequel will keep him too busy for now.
He then laughed, “Yeah, in fact just avoid all this Star Wars stuff. Everybody’s feeding too much on that anyway.”
Bird’s first theatrical movie, 1999’s The Iron Giant, about an awkward kid who befriends a giant robot from space — who spoke in Groot-like monosyllables by none other than Groot himself, Vin Diesel — didn’t stun at the box office, but it became a beloved cult hit.
Bird says the movie may find a new audience with a theatrical re-release: maybe. “Warner Bros. and I have danced on and off for the last decade,” he explained, adding, “Discussions keep happening, but I think something will happen fairly soon. They know that people have a fondness for it. They don’t know exactly how to deal with that beyond maybe a Blu-ray or something like that. And I keep saying, ‘You know, you did [a re-release] for Wizard of Oz and you did it for Blade Runner. I think you actually can do it.’ And I think they’re kind of coming around to that idea.”
Tomorrowland opens May 22. Lucasfilm and Pixar are owned by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.
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