Toy Story 4 and the death of the trilogy


It's official. Movies really don't come in 3s any more.
Posted by Ed Holden 28 June 2011 14:13:58
Pirates 4, Twilight 4, Harry Potter 7, Harry Potter 7 Part 2, X-Men -1... the movies are a numbers game right now due to Hollywood's reliance on established titles to guarantee box office bank. It's a sad state of affairs and our own Anna Smith has written about it along with every other disillusioned film journo.

Remember the days when movies came in good honest threes? Star Wars (ignoring the Lucas-mulch prequels), Indiana Jones (ignoring the Lucas-mulch fourquel), Back To The Future, The Godfather...



Toy Story, for me, remained a bastion of the old way of thinking: a perfectly resolved threesome immune to the moneygrabbing tendancies of Die Hard 4, Scre4m, Twilight Breaking Dawn (part 1) and POTC's On Stranger Tides. For me, Toy Story 3 was a highlight not just of last year but of the last 10.





But no. Nothing is sacred. They announced Toy Story 4 today. From our news story:

"Tom Hanks, who lends his voice to sheriff Woody in the Disney Pixar films, has hinted that Toy Story 4 is in the works."I think there will be, yeah. I think they're working on it now," he told the BBC.



It's a strange sensation to look forward to this movie and dread it at the same time. Hanks says he wants 'the Toy Story characters to stay in the world,' here. Why can't they stay in their original, perfect form? TS3 was so perfectly resolved that it seems certain to me that a reignition of the franchises will seem at least a little contrived.

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A man of few words, Terrence Malick cuts a reclusive shape against the limelight. 'Reclusive' is an understatement for a man of whom barely any photographs exist. He almost never gives interviews. His periods of mysterious absence seem to have elevated him to a godlike status in film-making circles. So how did he do it?


What tales do emerge about Malick, paint a portrait of an unmatched talent encumbered by a burly eccentric streak and obsessive secrecy. As a passionate and conscientious student at Harvard, he studied philosophy, specialising in Heidegger – whose work is thought to have a strong influence in his films. Upon graduating Malick also spent time studying at Oxford University, but is thought to have left before completing his studies.

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