Andrew Stanton said he was done with robots, but implied that he meant for now. Someone in that thread said that after 4 years, you get kind of tired of the same thing and that Stanton just needed a break from the Wall-E story. A well deserved break, it took 4 years, the same length as a college education.
But remember he said how endearing some of the characters were. Stanton helped write the screenplay for Monsters, Inc. and directed Nemo and these two films have absolutely no stated plans for sequels. Neither even had endings that begged for sequels. And we all know that sequels are shadows of the originals nearly all the time. And it has been stated that if Stanton had decided to do a sequel on Nemo right away, that would have meant Wall•E would have gone to the backburner yet again, where it had been since the famous chow-down of 1994.
Stanton has never said that there would definitely not ever be a sequel. Never say never. It’s obvious he wants to work on something else, or maybe he will go crazy.
Now what if some other Director in the Pixar organization, or a ‘guest’ Director says he wants to work on some screenplay about Wall-E that is floating around the building? What if a couple of the other big cheeses hear his pitch and approach Stanton: “…would you mind, Andrew? You’re working on that other project, and we won’t ask you to tear yourself away from it.” Why would you assume that he is the final authority, and that his opinion a week after release is set in stone and good for all time?
This is the 3rd thread to tackle a possible sequel. There was yours, then Coolie had a petition thread, now he has progressed a step further. It’s just too bad that some people can’t come up with any good ideas for a sequel, I’m not having any such problem. It’s a well known fact that in most organizations, from business to military that most people are NOT ideas people. They either can’t come up with any solutions or few ideas are any good and they don’t know how to test them or provide any leadership in getting them done. Most people are just spectators.
I for one am tired of being a spectator. A fire has been lit, but fate has made it that Wall-E has emptied out the extinguisher…