The 10 Animated Classics Disney WON'T Remake In Live Action

1. Anything By Pixar

While it's incredible just how many films riffing on previous projects Disney has coming, in many cases it's hard to not see some creative drive behind them, especially if we still get such solid animated treats as Frozen, Big Hero 6 and Zootopia alongside them. The same palatability does not exist when you move over to the other animation house.

They may be a subsidiary, but Pixar is owned by Disney (and has been for a decade), and the parent company hasn't been above trying to make the most of the House That Woody Built's brands; they planned to make quick 'n' cheap sequels to Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Monsters, Inc. and Cars in the mid-00s (and eventually followed-through on that promise with Planes) and are the driving force between Pixar's current spate of continuations. Things have been much more level since John Lasseter took over as head of Disney Animation, but if it was decided somewhere along the chain Disney wanted this, it could in theory happen.

But it won't, because Pixar is Pixar. We can list some strong candidates for a redo (mainly those involving humans - Up, Ratatouille and, perhaps most possible, The Incredibles) and struggle a vision that would work, but that's not why it won't happen. There just isn't a reason to - Pixar movies consistently rank as the highest-grossing films of their respective years (Inside Out beat Cinderella, Toy Story 3 beat Alice In Wonderland), making a retelling commercially worthless. We may be having to brace for a Toy Story 4, but don't expect Woody and Buzz to be moving into the real world any time soon.

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