{"id":757305,"date":"2026-06-24T14:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757305\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T14:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:03:22","slug":"pixar-producers-have-full-body-reaction-when-asked-about-live-action-toy-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757305\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixar producers have full-body reaction when asked about “live-action” Toy Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interviews exist in a strange place between the real and the manufactured, as the media and the media-trained come together for a whole variety of reasons that range from entertainment to self-promotion to the profound doctrines of corporate-branded messaging. So it\u2019s always fascinating to see a genuine human moment emerge from one\u2014as when an interviewer for the British Academy Of Film And Television Arts asked Toy Story 5<\/a>\u00a0director Andrew Stanton and producer Lindsey Collins whether they might consider a live-action version of the franchise some day, only to get something akin to full-body revulsion from the pair.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As visible at the 9-minute mark in the above clip, Stanton is the more restrained of the two, simply suggesting that the idea would be a \u201chat on a hat.\u201d But Collins is a bit more forthright, starting to groan \u201cI hope not\u201d before the question is even finished. \u201cPlease god, no,\u201d she adds, before cautioning that the walls have mouse-shaped ears. \u201cDon\u2019t say that loudly. Don\u2019t say that loudly! You know that Disney\u2019s going to be like\u2026\u201d And then Collins makes what we can only assume is her impression of a gigantic entertainment company smelling loose cash somewhere in the water.<\/p>\n

Pixar has been spared the glut of live-action remakes Disney has indulged in, to multi-billion-dollar effect, over the last two decades. (Indeed, the mothership studio has mostly stuck to remaking films that were originally animated in its traditional 2D style, which is one of the things that makes the upcoming live-action Moana\u00a0and\u00a0Tangled\u00a0movies such a departure.) It\u2019s not actually clear what the hell a \u201clive-action\u201d\u00a0Toy Story\u00a0would even look like\u2014the whole point of the movies has always been that they look a lot like actual real-life toys moving around in the first place\u2014but Collins clearly knows that can\u2019t stop the Mouse from going anywhere it detects there might be money. \u201cNo,\u201d she cuts back in, all-business, after a bit of joking around with Stanton\u2014who immediately echoes her sentiment. \u201cHard no.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interviews exist in a strange place between the real and the manufactured, as the media and the media-trained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-757305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}