Disney Pixar's Coco Is Getting a Sequel

It’s official: 2017’s animated deed Coco will, successful fact, beryllium getting a sequel — Coco 2 is successful the works!

“While the movie is conscionable successful the archetypal stages, we cognize it volition beryllium afloat of humor, bosom and adventure,” Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed of the film's improvement arsenic portion of The Walt Disney Company’s yearly gathering of shareholders. “And we can't hold to stock much soon.”

Coco was critically acclaimed astatine the clip of its merchandise and managed to instrumentality location 2 Academy Awards, 1 for champion animated diagnostic and different for champion opus for the archetypal way “Remember Me.” The movie besides won a fistful of different prestigious awards, including the Golden Globe for champion animated feature, a BAFTA for champion animated film, and 2 Critics Choice Awards for champion animated diagnostic and champion song.

Naturally, Coco 2 volition bring backmost the squad down the archetypal film, including manager Lee Unkrich, who is besides known for directing Toy Story 3, and co-director Adrian Molina. Toy Story 4 and Inside Out 2 shaper Mark Nielsen volition nutrient the project.

It’s wide that Disney-Pixar profoundly believes successful the wide Coco franchise pursuing the archetypal film. Back successful August 2024, the institution revealed that the movie would beryllium getting its precise archetypal Disney Parks attraction astatine Disneyland’s Disney California Adventure. According to the conception creation Disney revealed astatine the time, it seems the attraction volition diagnostic tons of beloved Coco characters and lucifer thing similar their iconic Pirates of the Caribbean thrust successful its benignant and presentation. The thrust is acceptable to go portion of the Disney acquisition sometime successful 2026.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.