Yesterday marked the day when young adults everywhere became increasingly excited to relive their childhood yet again. Deadline confirmed that Pixar are going ahead with Finding Nemo 2 and that Andrew Stanton, fresh off delivering the year’s biggest flop John Carter that cost Disney hundreds of millions of dollars, is being welcomed back with open arms to deliver an animated sequel to his 9-years old sea adventure.
The word is Stanton wouldn’t have had much interest in delivering another Nemo movie but he’s back here in the hope he can restore his reputation as an audience pleaser and can get another shot a live-action movie in the future. We imagine he pitched something to Pixar and they said “deliver Finding Nemo 2 to recoup the $200 million you lost on John Carter and we’ll let you make something else here”. Just don’t expect that move to be a John Carter sequel!
Finding Nemo 2 will open 2016 and continues Pixar’s recent decision to switch from the studio who mostly delivers original fare (Monster’s Inc, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up were a string of non-sequels) to a franchise studio. Finding Nemo 2 joins Monster’s University and Toy Story 3 as Pixar looking back to the past.
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I was thrilled to hear on the radio today, that there will definitley be a sequel to Finding Nemo..! But after I called my 8 and 4 year olds to tell them the exciting news, I read the buzz killer of a 2016 release… By then, they may not even care anymore, even though I know I will… Just curious why the extended delay, or does it really just take that long to produce something like that— we also were speculating on whether or not Marlin will have dementia and Nemo will have to go find the Pops.. :-)
Great film! Btw,I most like ‘finding-nemo’ for android phone,It’s hard to find but it’s there: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=Finding.Nemo