Well, it seems like Quentin Tarantino‘s long-awaited 10th and final film will not be a “Toy Story” installment.
The director said during Bill Maher’s YouTube (video) podcast “Club Random” that the original “Toy Story” trilogy is one of the greatest trio of films of all time. According to Tarantino, the franchise overextended with the fourth installment. Well, he’s gonna hate this news: a fifth “Toy Story” was announced earlier this year with original director Andrew Stanton returning to the chair. “Toy Story 5” will center on children who become obsessed with technology; it is slated for a June 19, 2026 release.
“I don’t watch all the animated movies and stuff, but I’m a big fan of the ‘Toy Story’ trilogy,” Tarantino told Maher in the below video. “In the case of ‘Toy Story,’ the third one is just magnificent. It’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. And if you’ve seen the other two, it’s just devastating.”
“Toy Story 3” was released in 2010 and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
We didn’t need a fourth, Tarantino said — but we got one in 2019 anyway.
“But the thing is, then three years later or something they did a fourth, and I have no desire to see it,” the auteur said. “You literally ended the story as perfect as you could, so no, I don’t care if it’s good. I’m done.”
Tarantino compared the Disney-Pixar films to the iconic Westerns of Sergio Leone.
“I think there’s only one trilogy that completely and utterly works to the Nth degree and that’s ‘A Fistful of Dollars,’ ‘For a Few Dollars More,’ and ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,’” Tarantino said. “It does what no other trilogy has ever been quite able to do. The first movie is terrific, but the second movie is so great and takes the whole idea to such a bigger canvas that it obliterates the first one. And then the third one does the same thing to the second one, and that’s kind of what never happens. You’ll see this big jump from the first to the second and they don’t really land the third one.”
“A Fistful of Dollars” is also getting a remake by the producers behind “The Departed,” “300,” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”
