In a world where the worst Fantastic Movie could conceivably get a sequel, lets talk about the sequel to the best Fantastic Four that isn’t actually a Fantastic Four movie. Yes, I’m talking about The Incredibles 2. I think we were all beyond excited when Pixar announced that their superhero epic would finally be getting a sequel, with writer/director Brad Bird returning to tell further adventure of our favourite crime superhero family. Speaking to Collider at the launch of The Iron Giant: Signature Edition, Bird revealed the progress made on the long awaited sequel, saying, “I have the story arc. I’m probably three-quarters through the script, first pass through the script, but we’re already boarding parts of it. I’ve got a lot of people that worked on the first one working on it, so we’re all having a good time with it.”
Nothing’s known about the plot at this point (the original took a lot of cues from Watchmen, so I’m hoping the sequel does the same with a mother famous comic work) , but the director did reveal that the current cinematic landscape has certainly helped shape the script. “But what’s changed is there were only two other superhero franchises at the time Incredibles came out. One of them was X-Men and the other was Spider-Man, and now there are 400 billion of them and there’s a new superhero movie every two weeks. What you don’t want to do is trot over the same turf in the same way everyone else is. So we’re trying to keep it focused in the area that our film was, which was a little bit more about characters and relationships and stuff like that, and see where that takes us. But we’re having a good time.”
Sadly, no release date for The Incredibles 2 has been given as of yet, but here’s hoping that changes soon.
