Disney Has Confirmed That "Inside Out 2" Will Be About Teenagers. In long-awaited news, Disney and Pixar have finally confirmed...
Disney Has Confirmed That "Inside Out 2" Will Be About Teenagers.
In long-awaited news, Disney and Pixar have finally confirmed that a sequel to Inside Out is happening. The news was shared at the D23 Expo over the weekend, but word got out before Friday's big reveal.
Amy Poehler, who plays Riley, told Deadline that the big twist in the sequel is that it will "take place inside Riley's head, but this time she's a teenager."
Inside Out 2 is a follow-up to 2015 animated hit starring Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Mindy Kaling, Lewis Black, and Phyllis Smith as the emotions Joy, Fear, Disgust, Anger, and Sadness. Puck News was the first to report on the movie. In the first movie, which was a big hit, a young girl named Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) lets her emotions guide her as she moves to a new city.
It's a coming-of-age story that both kids and adults loved, and it was the first time we met Bing Bong the elephant (Richard Kind).
Hader and Kaling will reportedly not be in the sequel because they want more money. Puck News says that Amy Poehler will make $5 million for the movie, but the rest of the cast will only get $100,000. Disney raised the offer, but it didn't help.
We don't know how the movie will deal with the loss of Hader and Kaling's voices, but we do know that Riley and the people who control her mind will again be the main focus. There will also be new teenage feelings, some of which we can probably guess (oh god).
There are a few other changes that stand out in the sequel. Pete Docter will not be the director. Instead, Kelsey Mann will be in charge. Meg LeFauve will be back as the screenwriter, and Mark Nielsen will be back as the producer. Josh Cooley will not go back to writing movies.
Docter said at first that he had no plans for a sequel because he was busy making Soul, which came out in 2020. And in 2016, Jim Morris, the president of Pixar, said no to any spin-offs. "Most studios make a sequel right away after a successful movie, but our business model is based on filmmakers, so we don't make a sequel unless the director of the first movie has an idea they like and are willing to move forward with," Morris told Entertainment Weekly at the time. "In some ways, making a sequel is harder than making the first one, because the world is already set up. On the one hand, this gives you an advantage, but on the other hand, people have high expectations that you can't let them down on."