Dreaming of Wall-E Sequel? Here’s Why It’s Never Happening (Fortunately)

The idea for WALL-E was born at Pixar in 1994, before the release of the studio's first feature-length animated movie, Toy Story. During one of the brainstorming sessions, the animators came up the idea of a futuristic Robinson Crusoe, where instead of a lonely sailor, there would be an equally lonely robot, and instead of an island – an entire planet.

At the time of the animation's release, the authors themselves called it the most difficult Pixar project since the days of Monsters Inc. To begin with, the Wall-E storyboard was twice as large as usual – if the pre-production material for the previous animations consisted of 75,000 frames, Wall-E had 125,000.

The complexity of the creation was one of the reasons why the creators of Wall-E abandoned the idea of a sequel.

Talking about the reasons why the second Wall-E will never happen, director Andrew Stanton complained about the difficult and painstaking work on the first movie, which exhausted him and his crew very much.

He admitted that they had been working on the animation for so long that it was hard for them to believe that they would ever finish it.

In addition, Pixar, like Stanton, believed that Wall-E is a completely finished love story that had its own beginning, middle and logical ending, and the sequel in this case seems absolutely unnecessary:

“I mean, I’m not anti and I’m very sober to the fact that I don’t own this movie. They can do whatever they want with it. But it doesn’t feel like it’s asking for that.”

Andrew Stanton's animation is physical comedy and touching drama, a scathing critique of consumerism and a heart-wrenching tale of love at first sight.

Wall-E, a little robot with expressive eyes, has established himself in popular culture as one of the most recognizable characters in history. And he really doesn't need a sequel – Wall-E’s found his Eve, and he doesn't need any more.

Source: Gizmodo