In this article:
- Pete Docter, CEO of Pixar, confessed why they decided to make a sequel to Inside Out, ensuring that “they took great care to ensure that it had an emotional resonance.”
- The film’s director, Kelsey Mann, said he felt pressure from the studio, as there were high expectations to find the right story.
- However, both executives assure that the franchise has a lot of potential, and even hint that Pixar could produce a third part.
Inside Out 2 is shaping up to save Pixar and the summer box office. The sequel to the success of 2015 has received, for the most part, positive reviews, starting the controversial strategy that the company announced, where They intend to pay more attention to sequels, remakes and reboots of their best-known titles.
These statements caused a stir and worried his fans, who thought that probably The company was only going to produce films to ensure high box office revenue, instead of taking care of the artistic quality of its titles.
However, Pete Docter, the CEO of Pixar, assured that this is not the case, and explained why they decided to make a sequel to Inside Out 2.
Pixar did believe that Inside Out 2 would have depth
According to Pete Docter, since he started making the first movie Inside Out, “I knew there was a lot of fabric to cut from,” but he did not make the decision to make a sequel until 2019-2020, when he realized cultural impact the film had and the way it stayed relevant over time.
“We always said: If we don’t find a way for it to have a deeper resonance, we’re not going to do it.
But when Kelsey (Mann, director of Inside Out 2) came in with Anxiety as a character and a plot idea, we all said: that was my high school experience.”
Pete Docter, Entertainment Weekly
And for him CEO of Pixar, That was what led to the decision to go ahead with the sequel, because they found a universal theme that everyone could identify with. “We personalized it in a way so people can talk about those vague feelings of tension and nervousness.”
Did Pixar put a lot of pressure on the director of Inside Out 2?
Although he Pixar CEO is sure they found a deep story with emotional resonance, the director, Kelsey Mann, confessed that He felt extremely pressured by the expectations surrounding creating this story.
“Feeling pressure at Pixar is nothing new. It’s hard to make great movies. It takes a lot of time, and it certainly creates a lot of pressure, a lot of expectations. Especially with a movie like Inside Out, which is so universally loved.”
Kelsey Mann, Entertainment Weekly
Echoing what he confessed Pete Docter, the director confirmed that he proposed the idea to him and thought he had the opportunity to create something new. “But if it doesn’t excite us, we won’t do it, we want to do it for the right reasons.”
Still, it seems that Pixar still has a lot of material to continue expanding the story of Inside Out. In addition to the series spin-off focused on “Dream Studios” from the mind of Riley, director He hinted that they left enough story behind to make a third film.
“Especially with the sequel, I was left thinking that there are interesting things” commented the director of the new sequel to Pixar, “they were things that I wasn’t sure could go into this story, but it would be interesting to explore them.”
Inside Out 2 has been praised for the ingenious way in which They explore topics such as social acceptance and how conflictive it is to grow up, so everything looks to be a Pixar’s great success, and will probably become one of the most important films of all of 2024.
