The news that Brad Bird is directing a sequel to The Incredibles was long overdue, and while plot details are still under wraps, the filmmaker has confirmed that he started writing the script earlier this year and offers an update on how things are currently progressing.
“I have the story arc,” he told Collider today. “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.”
That’s right, it’s really happening, and in a particularly exciting turn of events, Bird went on to reveal that The Incredibles 2 has now been moved ahead of Cars 3 (that too is currently without a release date). “Incredibles was supposed to happen after Cars,” he confirmed, “and our wheels just happened to click a little earlier so they moved us up. Release dates are a little fluid when you’re making films so far in advance. Some films are tougher to come together and tough nuts to crack, and other ones comes together a little more quickly.”
The director was reluctant to shed any light on the story, but acknowledged the fact that the superhero movie genre is now much different to what it was when the first movie was released back in 2004. As it turns out, they’ll be taking that very much into account.
“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.”
