{"id":2650,"date":"2009-07-25T18:28:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T18:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/john-lasseter-and-lee-unkrich-talk-toy-story-series-and-more"},"modified":"2009-07-25T18:28:38","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T18:28:38","slug":"john-lasseter-and-lee-unkrich-talk-toy-story-series-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/john-lasseter-and-lee-unkrich-talk-toy-story-series-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lasseter and Lee Unkrich Talk Toy Story Series and More!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 222px; height: 155px\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/791.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"155\" \/>Even though non-attendees didn&#8217;t get all that much from Pixar at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comic-Con<\/a> there&#8217;s always the super informative interviews to make up for that.<\/p>\n<p>Our friends at SlashFilm sat down with John Lasseter and Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich. The Chief Creative Officer&nbsp;of Disney and Pixar Animation Studios had a multitude of topics to touch on in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2009\/07\/25\/comic-con-video-interview-john-lasseter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this interview<\/a>. From the upcoming re-releases of the Toy Story series in 3D to the&nbsp;Disney Theme Parks he&#8217;s been working on.&nbsp;But the&nbsp;most interesting discussion was with Lee Unkrich.<\/p>\n<p>Although there&#8217;s not much either of them could tell us about the highly anticipated sequel, Unkrich did reassure us. I&#8217;ve been&nbsp;<em>all for<\/em> Pixar sequels openly for quite a while now, but some fans are still not convinced. He tells us <em>exactly<\/em> what I&#8217;ve been trying to say for a while, sequels get a bad wrap from other studios. But this is <strong>Pixar <\/strong>where they make stories that <em>they<\/em> want to make. He also assures us fans will be pleased and that Pixar will try to find a balance between originals and sequels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, if you&#8217;ve been curious as to how Unkrich got the role as a director (finally after years of co-directing) or how Toy Story 3 was conceived (in more detail) this is for you! Enjoy the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2009\/07\/25\/comic-con-interview-lee-unkrich-director-of-toy-story-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be bringing you more interviews as we get note of them.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SlashFilm<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>Even though non-attendees didn&#8217;t get all that much from Pixar at this year&#8217;s Comic-Con there&#8217;s always the super informative interviews to make up for that. Our friends at SlashFilm sat down with John Lasseter and Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich. The Chief Creative Officer&nbsp;of Disney and Pixar Animation Studios had a multitude of topics &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,28,68,2,26,27,19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>John Lasseter and Lee Unkrich Talk Toy Story Series and More! - Upcoming Pixar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/john-lasseter-and-lee-unkrich-talk-toy-story-series-and-more\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"John Lasseter and Lee Unkrich Talk Toy Story Series and More! - Upcoming Pixar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Even though non-attendees didn&#8217;t get all that much from Pixar at this year&#8217;s Comic-Con there&#8217;s always the super informative interviews to make up for that. 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