


This seems like taking a huge risk for no real reason. The first three Toy Story films comprise one of the most perfect film trilogies of all time. John Lasseter will direct a fourth "Toy Story" film, in theaters June 2017 (Iger just announced on earnings call) The news was first tweeted out by the Wall Street Journal's Ben Fritz, off an earnings call Disney president Robert Iger was holding with investors. The last film he directed was 2011's Cars 2. Lasseter was the director of the first two Toy Story films, but has been busy as the chief creative officer for essentially all Disney/Pixar animation since the two companies merged and, thus, did not direct the third film. Despite the fact that Toy Story 3 - which was already an iffy proposition to begin with - ended perfectly and the fact that a Toy Story film is bound to disappoint sooner or later, Disney/Pixar is plunging forward with Toy Story 4, out in 2017 and directed by John Lasseter.
