The Hollywood Reporter broke the news Tuesday that Pixar Animation Studios is going through with a new sequel to 2004’s The Incredibles, but that Incredibles and Incredibles 2 writer-director Brad Bird won’t be at the helm. The movie, first announced at Disney’s D23 expo in 2024, will instead be directed by Peter Sohn, a Pixar animation and voice veteran who made his directorial debut with the short “Partly Cloudy” in 2009, and went on to head up 2015’s The Good Dinosaur and 2023’s Elemental.

At D23, Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter (director of Up, Inside Out, and Soul) said Bird was “developing” the movie, and THR says Bird will still write the script. It also noted that Bird is currently busy with pre-production on the science fiction movie Ray Gunn at Skydance Animation, the company where Pixar chief John Lasseter landed after sexual misconduct accusations led to him leaving Pixar.

Sohn heading up The Incredibles 3 isn’t inherently a problem. The Good Dinosaur is arguably Pixar’s least emotionally satisfying and evocative movie, but that may have been inevitable after its

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