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The Incredibles
File:The Incredibles.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBrad Bird
Written byBrad Bird
Produced byJohn Walker
StarringCraig T. Nelson
Holly Hunter
Sarah Vowell
Spencer Fox
Jason Lee
Samuel L. Jackson
Elizabeth Peña
Brad Bird
CinematographyAndrew Jimenez
Patrick Lin
Janet Lucroy
Edited byStephen Schaffer
Music byMichael Giacchino
Production
companies
Distributed byBuena Vista Pictures
Release dates
  • October 27, 2004 (2004-10-27) (London Film Festival)
  • November 5, 2004 (2004-11-05) (United States)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$92 million
Box office$631,442,092[1]

The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated family action-comedy superhero film written and directed by Brad Bird, released by Walt Disney Pictures, and the sixth film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. The story follows a family of superheroes living a quiet suburban life, forced to hide their powers. When father Bob Parr's yearning for his glory days and desire to help people drags him into battle with an evil villain and his killer robot, the entire Parr family is forced into action to save the world.

Bird, who was Pixar's first outside director, developed the film as an extension of 1960s comic books and spy films from his boyhood and personal family life. He pitched the film to Pixar after the box office disappointment of his first feature, The Iron Giant (1999), and carried over much of its staff to develop The Incredibles. The animation team was tasked with animating an all-human cast, which required creating new technology to animate detailed human anatomy, clothing and realistic skin and hair. Michael Giacchino composed the film's orchestral score.

The film premiered on October 27, 2004 at the BFI London Film Festival and had its general release in the United States on November 5, 2004. The film performed highly at the box office, grossing $631 million worldwide during its original theatrical run. The Incredibles was met with high critical acclaim, garnering high marks from professional critics and audiences, and provoking commentary on its themes. Many critics called it the best film of 2004, receiving the 2004 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature, along with two Academy Awards. It became the first entirely animated film to win the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

Plot

"Supers"—humans gifted with superpowers—help fight crime and are idolized by the public. On his way to marry Helen (also known as Elastigirl), Bob Parr, better known as Mr. Incredible, saves a suicidal man, and inadvertently causes a monorail to be damaged when saving his intrusive biggest fan, Buddy Pine, from being defeated by criminal Bomb Voyage. After marrying Helen, countless lawsuits filed against Mr. Incredible and the other Supers for collateral damage and civil unrest from their good deeds results in the creation of a relocation program, forcing the Supers to fit in among the civilians without using their superpowers.

Fifteen years later, Bob and Helen have three children – Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack. Longing for the glory days while stuck in a white-collar job, Bob and his old friend Lucius Best, formerly Frozone, perform vigilante work. One day, Bob loses his temper when his supervisor refuses to let him stop a robbery, causing him to lose his job. Returning home, Bob finds a message from a woman named Mirage, who convinces him to become Mr. Incredible again, and a mission to destroy a malfunctioning robot called the Omnidroid. Arriving on Nomanisan Island, Bob is able to trick the robot to rip out its own power source, and he is rewarded big.

After returning from Nomanisan, Bob forms a better relationship with his family and undergoes rigorous training. Discovering a tear in his suit, Bob visits superhero costume designer Edna Mode who decides to make him and his whole family suits. Leaving for Nomanisan once again, Bob discovers that Mirage is working for Buddy, now an amoral super villain called Syndrome. He intends on using the ultimate Omnidroid as a puppet to become a hero himself, and then sell his inventions to the public so everyone will become "super", a term which no one will be. Bob sneaks into Syndrome's base, finding a big-screen computer where he uses the password "Kronos" left by a dead Super - Gazerbeam. He discovers Syndrome murdered countless retired superheroes with previous Omnidroid prototypes. Meanwhile, Helen visits Edna, finds out what Bob has been dealing with, and activates a homing beacon to find him, inadvertently causing Bob to be captured.

Helen borrows a jet to head for Nomanisan, but finds Violet and Dash have stowed away wearing their own costumes, leaving Jack-Jack in the care of a teenage babysitter. Syndrome picks up Helen’s radio transmissions then destroys the jet, but Helen along with the children survive then make it to the island, though Bob thinks that they are dead. Helen ventures off to the base to find Bob, discovering Syndrome's intentions to launch the Omnidroid to Municiberg in a rocket. Later, Mirage, annoyed with Syndrome's selfishness, releases Bob and informs him that his family is alive. Before Helen appears and races off with Bob to find the children when they are spotted by security. Dash and Violet use their powers to escape their captors and are joined by their parents, only to be captured by Syndrome, who then heads off to initiate his plan.

The Parrs escape with Violet's help and through some quick-thinking, use a security van and a rocket booster to pursue Syndrome. In Municiberg, the Omnidroid grows intelligent enough to destroy the remote that allows Syndrome to control it, knocking him unconscious and rampaging through the city. The Parrs and Lucius team up to fight the robot, until Bob uses Syndrome's remote control and one of the Omnidroid’s detached pincers to make it tear its power source out, destroying it. Returning home, the Parrs find Syndrome has Jack-Jack and intends on raising him as his own sidekick to seek revenge on the family, only for Jack-Jack’s own superpowers to materialize. Helen rescues Jack-Jack, and Bob kills Syndrome by throwing his car at his jet, causing Syndrome’s cape to get caught in the turbines, and pulling him in.

Three months later, the Parrs have readjusted to normal life, but the city is attacked by a villain called the Underminer. The family dons their superhero outfits, preparing to face the new threat.

Cast

Main article: List of The Incredibles characters

Production

Writing

The Incredibles as a concept dates back to 1993, when Bird sketched the family during a period in which he tried to break into film.[2][3] Personal issues had percolated into the story as they weighed on him in life.[4] During this time, Bird had inked a production deal with Warner Bros. Animation and was in the process of directing his first feature, The Iron Giant.[5] Bird, who was then in his late thirties, began to wonder, with a measure of fear, about the conflict between career and family responsibilities. Approaching middle age and having high aspirations for his filmmaking, he pondered whether these aspirations were attainable only at the price of his family life.[4] He felt that he would completely fail at one if he focused too much on the other. He stated, "Consciously, this was just a funny movie about superheroes. But I think that what was going on in my life definitely filtered into the movie."[6] To make matters worse, The Iron Giant was released in the summer of 1999 and tanked at the box office due to mismanaged marketing on behalf on Warner Bros.[5] Although it was labeled a masterpiece, Bird was heartsick and gravitated toward his superhero story.[4][5]

"The dad is always expected in the family to be strong, so I made him strong. The moms are always pulled in a million different directions, so I made her stretch like taffy. Teenagers, particularly teenage girls, are insecure and defensive, so I made her turn invisible and turn on shields. And ten-year-old boys are hyperactive energy balls. Babies are unrealized potential."
— Brad Bird, writer and director of The Incredibles.[7][8]

He imagined it as an homage to the 1960s comic books and spy films from his boyhood and he initially tried to develop it as a traditionally animated film.[4] When The Iron Giant became a box office bomb (due to poor marketing), he reconnected with old friend from college John Lasseter at Pixar in March 2000 and pitched his story idea to him.[3] Bird and Lasseter knew each other from their college years at CalArts in the 1970s.[9] Lasseter was sold on the idea and convinced Bird to come to Pixar, where the film would be done in computer animation. The studio announced a multifilm contract with Bird on May 4, 2000.[4] This broke Pixar's mold of having directors who had all risen through the ranks, and Bird became the first outside director to be hired. In addition, it would be the company's first film in which all characters are human.[9] Bird was a departure from other Pixar directors in many more ways, bringing an auteur approach not found in their earlier productions. Where Pixar films typically had two or three directors and a battalion of screenwriters, The Incredibles was written and directed solely by Brad Bird.[10]

Bird came to Pixar with the lineup of the story's family members worked out: a mom and dad, both suffering through the dad's midlife crisis; a shy teenage girl; a cocky ten-year-old boy; and a baby. Bird had based their powers on family archetypes.[4][8] After several failed attempts to cast Edna Mode, Bird took on her voice role himself. It was an extension of the Pixar custom of tapping in-house staff whose voices came across particularly well on scratch dialogue tracks.[7] During production, Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli visited Pixar and saw the film's story reels. When Bird asked if the reels made any sense or if they were just "American nonsense," Miyazaki replied, through an interpreter, "I think it's a very adventurous thing you are trying to do in an American film."[11]

Animation

Brad Bird wrote and directed the film.

Upon Pixar's acceptance of the project, Brad Bird was asked to bring in his own team for the production. He brought up a core group of people he worked with on The Iron Giant. Because of this, many 2-D artists had to make the shift to 3-D, including Bird himself. Bird found working with CG "wonderfully malleable" in a way that traditional animation is not, calling the camera's ability to easily switch angles in a given scene "marvelously adaptable." He found working in computer animation difficult in a different way than working traditionally, finding the software sophisticated and not particularly friendly.[12] Bird wrote the script without knowing the limitations or concerns that went hand-in-hand with the medium of computer animation. As a result, this was to be the most complex film for Pixar yet.[2] The film's characters were designed by Tony Fucile and Teddy Newton, whom Bird had brought with him from Warner Bros.[13] Like most computer-animated films, The Incredibles had a year-long period of building the film from the inside out: modeling the exterior and understanding controls that work face and body — the articulation of the character — before animation could even begin.[12] Bird and Fucile tried to emphasize the graphic quality of good 2-D animation to the Pixar team, who'd only worked primarily in CG. Bird attempted to incorporate teaching from Disney's Nine Old Men that the crew at Pixar had "never really emphasized."[12]

For the technical crew members, the film's human characters posed a difficult set of challenges.[10] Bird's story was filled with elements that were difficult to animate with CGI at the time. Humans are widely considered to be the most difficult thing to execute in animation.[3] Pixar animators filmed themselves walking in order to better grasp proper human motion.[3] Creating an all-human cast required creating new technology to animate detailed human anatomy, clothing and realistic skin and hair. Although the technical team had some experience with hair and cloth in Monsters, Inc. (2001), the amount of hair and cloth required for The Incredibles had never been done by Pixar until this point. Moreover, Bird would tolerate no compromises for the sake of technical simplicity. Where the technical team on Monsters, Inc. had persuaded director Pete Docter to accept pigtails on Boo to make her hair easier to animate, the character of Violet had to have long hair that obscured her face; it was integral to her character.[10] Violet's long hair was extremely difficult to achieve and for the longest time during production, it was not possible. In addition, animators had to adapt to having hair underwater and blowing through the wind.[12] Disney was initially reluctant to make the film because of these issues, feeling a live-action film would be preferable, though Lasseter vetoed this.[14]

The Incredibles not only dealt with the trouble of animating CG humans, but also many other complications. The story was bigger than any prior story at the studio, was longer in running time, and had four times the number of locations.[12][15] Supervising technical director Rick Sayre noted that the hardest thing about the film was that there was "no hardest thing," alluding to the amount of new technical challenges: fire, water, air, smoke, steam, and explosions were all additional to the new difficulty of working with humans.[12] The film's organizational structure could not be mapped out like previous Pixar features, and it became a running joke to the team.[12] Sayre said the team adopted “Alpha Omega," where one team was concerned with building modeling, shading and layout and another that dealt with final camera, lighting and effects. Another team, dubbed the character team, digitally sculpted, rigged and shaded the characters, and a simulation team was responsible for developing simulation technology for hair and clothing.[12] There were 781 visual effects shots in the film and they were quite often the gag, such as the shattering when Bob angrily shuts the car door. In addition, the effects team improved upon the modeling of clouds, being able to model them for the first time with volumetric rendering.[12]

The skin of the characters gained a new level of realism from a technology to produce what is known as "subsurface scattering."[13] The challenges did not stop with modeling humans. Bird decided that in a shot near the film's end, baby Jack-Jack would undergo a series of transformations, and in one of the five planned he would turn himself into a kind of goo. Technical directors believed it would take upwards of two months to work out the goo effect, and production was at a point where two months of their time was indescribably precious.[16] They petitioned to the film's producer, John Walker for help. Bird, who had brought Walker over from Warner Bros., took great exception to the idea that Jack-Jack could undergo a mere four transformations and that the film could do without the goo-baby. They argued over the issue in several invective-laced meetings for two months until Bird finally gave in.[16] Bird also insisted that the storyboards define the blocking of characters' movements, lighting, and camera moves, which had previously been left to other departments rather than storyboarded.[10]

Bird self-admitted that he "had the knees of [the studio] trembling under the weight" of The Incredibles, but called the film a testament to the talent of the animators at Pixar, who were admiring the challenges the film provoked.[12] He recalled, "Basically, I came into a wonderful studio, frightened a lot of people with how many presents I wanted for Christmas, and then got almost everything I asked for."[14]

Music

Main article: The Incredibles (film score)

The Incredibles is the first Pixar film to be scored by Michael Giacchino. Brad Bird was looking for a specific sound as inspired by the film's design — the future as seen from the 1960s. John Barry was the first choice to do the film's score, with a trailer of the film given a rerecording of Barry's theme to On Her Majesty's Secret Service. However, Barry did not wish to duplicate the sound of some of his earlier soundtracks;[17] the assignment was instead given to Giacchino.[18] Giacchino noted that recording in the 1960s was largely different than modern day recording and Dan Wallin, the recording engineer, said that Bird wanted a very old feel, and as such the score was recorded on analogue tapes. Wallin noted that brass instruments, which are at the forefront of the film's score, sound better on analog equipment rather than digital. Wallin came from an era in which music was recorded, according to Giacchino, "the right way," which consists of everyone in the same room, "playing against each other and feeding off each other's energy." Tim Simonec was the conductor/orchestrator for the score's recording.[19]

The film's orchestral score was released on November 2, 2004, three days before the film opened in theaters. It won numerous awards for best score including Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, BMI Film & TV Award, ASCAP Film and Television Music Award, Annie Award, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award and Online Film Critics Society Award and was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, Satellite Award and Broadcast Film Critics Association Award.[20]

Themes

Several film reviewers drew precise parallels between the film and certain superhero comic books, like Powers, Watchmen, and Fantastic Four. Indeed, the producers of the 2005 adaptation of the Fantastic Four were forced to make significant script changes and add more special effects because of similarities to The Incredibles.[21] Bird was not surprised that comparisons arose due to superheroes being "the most well-trod turf on the planet," but noted that he'd not been inspired by any comic books specifically, only having heard of Watchmen. He did comment that it was nice to be compared to something as highly regarded as Watchmen.[8]

Some commentators took Bob's frustration with celebrating mediocrity and Syndrome's comment that if "everyone is super, then no one is" as a reflection of views shared by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche or an extension of Russian-American novelist's Ayn Rand's Objectivism philosophy, which Bird felt was "ridiculous."[3][8] He stated that a large portion of the audience understood the satire whereas "two percent thought I was doing The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged." Some purported that The Incredibles exhibited a right-wing bias, which Bird found silly. "I think that's as silly of an analysis as saying The Iron Giant was left-wing. I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd."[3]

The film also explored Bird's dislike for the tendency of the children's comics and Saturday morning cartoons of his youth to portray villains as unrealistic, ineffectual, and non-threatening.[22] In the film, Dash and Violet have to deal with villains who are perfectly willing to use deadly force against children.[23] On another level, both Dash and Violet display no emotion or regret at the deaths of those who are trying to kill them, such as when Dash outruns pursuers who crash their vehicles while chasing him, or when both of them witness their parents destroy several attacking vehicles with people inside, in such a manner that the deaths of those piloting them is undeniable. Despite disagreeing with some analysis, Bird felt it gratifying for his work to be considered on many different levels, which was his intention: "The fact that it was written about in the op/ed section of the New York Times several times was really gratifying to me. Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking?"[3]

Release

The film opened on November 5, 2004 as Pixar's first PG-rated films to do so (for "action violence"), as of August 2013 the others being Up and Brave.[16] Its theatrical release was accompanied with a Pixar short film Boundin'.[24] While Pixar celebrated another triumph with The Incredibles, Steve Jobs was embroiled in a public feud with the head of its distribution partner, The Walt Disney Company.[25] This would eventually lead to the ousting of Michael Eisner and Disney's acquisition of Pixar the following year.

Home media

The film's 2-disc Collector's Edition DVD set was released on March 15, 2005. The DVD release also includes Jack-Jack Attack and Mr. Incredible and Pals, two Pixar short films made especially for the release of The Incredibles, and Boundin', a Pixar short film which premiered with The Incredibles in theaters.[24] The Incredibles was the highest-selling DVD of 2005, with 17.38 million copies sold.[26] The film was also released on UMD for the Sony PSP.[27] It was released on Blu-ray in North America on April 12, 2011.[28] There was also a VHS release to the film on March 15, 2005, notably the last Disney/Pixar film to be widely issued in VHS format (not counting Pixar's later film Cars, whom its VHS release was extremely rare).[29]

Reception

Critical response

File:Syndrome.jpg
Syndrome, the film's antagonist, was listed at No. 64 in Wizard magazine's top 100 villains.[30]

The film received high critical acclaim, with a 97% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes[31] which as of August 2013, made the movie the fifteenth most highly rated animated film of all time.[32] The site's consensus reads: "Even though The Incredibles is more violent than previous Pixar offerings, it still a witty and fun-filled adventure that almost lives up to its name."[31] Metacritic, another review aggregator, indicates the film "universal acclaim" with a 90 out of 100 rating.[33]

Critic Roger Ebert awarded the film 3½ stars out of 4, writing that the film "alternates breakneck action with satire of suburban sitcom life" and is "another example of Pixar's mastery of popular animation."[34] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film 3½ stars and called the film "one of the year's best" and said that it "doesn't ring cartoonish, it rings true."[35] Also giving the film 3½ stars, People magazine found that The Incredibles "boasts a strong, entertaining story and a truckload of savvy comic touches."[36]

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was bored by the film's recurring pastiches of earlier action films, concluding, "the Pixar whizzes do what they do excellently; you just wish they were doing something else."[37][38] Similarly, Jessica Winter of The Village Voice criticized the film for playing as a standard summer action film, despite being released in early November. Her review, titled as "Full Metal Racket," noted that "The Incredibles announces the studio's arrival in the vast yet overcrowded Hollywood lot of eardrum-bashing, metal-crunching action sludge."

Travers also named The Incredibles No. 6 on his list of the decade's best films, writing "Of all the Pixar miracles studded through the decade, The Incredibles still delights me the most. It's not every toon that deals with midlife crisis, marital dysfunction, child neglect, impotence fears, fashion faux pas and existential angst."[39] The National Review Online named The Incredibles No. 2 on its list of the 25 best conservative movies of the last 25 years saying that it "celebrates marriage, courage, responsibility, and high achievement."[40] Entertainment Weekly named The Incredibles No. 25 on its list of the 25 greatest action films ever.[41] Entertainment Weekly also named The Incredibles No. 7 on its list of the 20 best animated movies ever.[42]

Box office

Despite concerns that the film would receive underwhelming results,[43] the films domestic gross was $70,467,623 in its opening weekend from 7,600 screens at 3,933 theaters, averaging $17,917 per theater or $9,272 per screen, the highest opening weekend gross for a Pixar film (the record was later broken in 2010 by Toy Story 3, with $110,307,189), the highest-opening weekend for a non-sequel animated feature (the record was broken in 2007 by The Simpsons Movie, with $74,036,787), and the highest opening weekend for a non-franchise-based film for just over five years when Avatar opened with $77,025,481.[44] The film was also No. 1 in its second weekend, grossing another $50,251,359, dropping just 29 percent, and easily out-grossing new animated opener The Polar Express. The film ultimately grossed $261,441,092, as the fifth highest-grossing Pixar film behind Toy Story 3 ($415 million), Finding Nemo ($380.7 million), Up ($293 million), and Monsters, Inc. ($266.1 million), and the fifth highest-grossing film of 2004.[45] Worldwide, the film grossed $631,442,092, as the fourth highest-grossing Pixar film behind Toy Story 3 ($1.063 billion), Finding Nemo ($921.6 million), and Up ($731.3 million), and ranked fourth for 2004.[46] It is also the second highest-grossing 2004 animated film behind Shrek 2 ($919.8 million).[47]

Accolades

Main article: List of Pixar awards and nominations: The Incredibles

The film won the Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, beating two DreamWorks films, Shrek 2 and Shark Tale, as well as Best Sound Editing at the 77th Academy Awards. It also received nominations for Best Original Screenplay (for writer/director Brad Bird) and Best Sound Mixing (Randy Thom, Gary Rizzo and Doc Kane).[48] It was Pixar's first feature film to win multiple Oscars, followed in 2010 by Up. Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal called The Incredibles the year's best picture.[8] Premiere magazine released a cross-section of all the top critics in America and The Incredibles placed at number three, whereas review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes cross-referenced reviews that suggested it was its year's highest-rated film.[8]

The film also received the 2004 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature and the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, and it was nominated for the 2004 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. It also won the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film. The American Film Institute nominated The Incredibles for its Top 10 Animated Films list.[49]

Merchandising

Several companies released promotional products related to the film. Dark Horse Comics released a limited series of comic books based on the film. Kellogg's released an Incredibles-themed cereal, as well as promotional Pop-Tarts and fruit snacks, all proclaiming an "Incrediberry Blast" of flavor.[50] Pringles included potato chips featuring the superheroes and quotes from the film.[50] Furthermore, in the weeks before the film's opening, there were also promotional tie-ins with SBC Communications (using Dash to promote the "blazing-fast speed" of its SBC Yahoo! DSL service) Tide, Downy, Bounce and McDonald's.[51] Toy maker Hasbro produced a series of action figures and toys based on the film, although the line was not as successful as the film itself.[51]

In Europe, Kinder chocolate eggs contained small plastic toy characters from the film.[51] In Belgium, car manufacturer Opel sold special The Incredibles editions of their cars.[51] In the United Kingdom, Telewest promoted blueyonder internet services with branding from the film, including television adverts starring characters from the film.[51] In all merchandising outside of the film itself, Elastigirl is referred to as Mrs. Incredible.[51] This is due to a licensing agreement between Disney·Pixar and DC Comics, who has a character named Elasti-Girl (a member of the Doom Patrol).[51] The DC Comics character is able to grow and shrink at will from microscopic size to thousands of feet tall.[51]

Comics

In July 2008, it was announced that a series of comic books based on the film would be published by BOOM! Studios in collaboration with Disney Publishing by the end of the year.[52] The first miniseries by BOOM! was The Incredibles: Family Matters by Mark Waid and Marcio Takara, which was published from March to June 2009, and collected into a trade paperback published in July of that year.[53] An ongoing series written by both Mark Waid and Landry Walker, with art by Marcio Takara and Ramanda Kamarga, began later that same year, running for sixteen issues before being cancelled in October 2010.[53] Marvel began a reprint of the series in August 2011—set to possibly finish the storyline—which was abruptly cancelled, despite the production of scripts and art for a finale.[53]

Video game

Main article: The Incredibles (video game)

A video game based on the film was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance, PC, Apple Macintosh, and mobiles. Though based on the film, several key scenes are altered from the original script. A second game, The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer, was released for PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Mac OS X, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and Windows.[54] Taking place immediately after the film, the sequel focuses on Mr. Incredible and Frozone as they do battle with the megalomaniacal mole, The Underminer.[54] A third game, The Incredibles: When Danger Calls, was released for Windows and Mac OS X.[55] It is a collection of 10 games and activities for the playable characters to perform.[55] Another game, Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure, was released on March 20, 2012, for Xbox 360.[56] It features characters and missions from five Pixar's films: The Incredibles, Up, Cars, Ratatouille and Toy Story.[57] The Incredibles characters will also star in Disney Infinity, which will be released in August 2013. The play-set for The Incredibles will be featured in the starter pack.[58]

Possible sequel

In 2004, when Disney owned sequel rights, Disney announced plans to make sequels for The Incredibles and Finding Nemo without Pixar involvement. Those plans were subsequently scrapped.[59]

When Disney acquired Pixar in 2006, the expectation of Disney was that Pixar would create more sequels and bankable franchises. Director Brad Bird stated in 2007 that he was open to the idea of a sequel if he could come up with an idea superior to the original film: "I have pieces that I think are good, but I don't have them all together," Bird said.[60]

During an interview in May 2013, Bird reiterated his interest in making a sequel. "I have been thinking about it. People think that I have not been, but I have. Because I love those characters and love that world," said Bird. "I am stroking my chin and scratching my head. I have many, many elements that I think would work really well in another Incredibles film, and if I can get ‘em to click all together, I would probably wanna do that."[61]

Notes

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  3. ^ a b c d e f g Patrizio, Andy (March 9, 2005). "An Interview with Brad Bird". IGN. Archived from the original on January 20, 2013. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Price, p. 220
  5. ^ a b c Price, p. 219
  6. ^ Paik, Karen. (2007) To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios, Chronicle Books LLC, pg. 236–37.
  7. ^ a b Price, p. 220-221 Cite error: The named reference "PixarTouch05" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  8. ^ a b c d e f Michael Barrier (February 27, 2005). "Brad Bird - Interview". MichaelBarrier.com. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
  9. ^ a b Price, p. 217
  10. ^ a b c d Price, p. 222
  11. ^ Price, p. 215-216
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Bill Desowitz (November 5, 2004). "Brad Bird & Pixar Tackle CG Humans Like True Superheroes". AnimationWorld. Retrieved July 31, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  13. ^ a b Price, p. 223
  14. ^ a b Paik, Karen. (2007) To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios, Chronicle Books LLC, pg. 238–51
  15. ^ Collins, Andrew (October 5, 2009). "Interview: Pixar's Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera". Radio Times. Archived from the original on May 11, 2011. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  16. ^ a b c Price, p. 224
  17. ^ Moriarty (November 5, 2004). "AICN Animation Double-Header! Moriarty Interviews Brad Bird!!". Ain't It Cool News. Archived from the original on July 18, 2007. Retrieved July 27, 2013. Yeah. We worked on it for a little while, and I'm a huge fan of John Barry. But I kind of wanted him to go back to a style that he used in the past, and use that as kind of a starting place. I think he kind of felt like he'd already done that.
  18. ^ D., Spence (November 4, 2004). "Michael Giacchino Interview". IGN. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  19. ^ Brad Bird, Michael Giacchino et al. (2011). The Incredibles. Special Features - Behind the Scenes - More Making of The Incredibles: Music (Blu-ray Disc). Buena Vista Home Entertainment. {{cite AV media}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |authors= (help)
  20. ^ "The Incredibles (2004) Awards". The New York Times. Retrieved March 7, 2009.
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References

  • Price, David (2008). The Pixar Touch. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-307-26575-7.
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