With Inside Out 2 in cinemas, Pixar boss Pete Docter has said that a spin-off TV series is finished and will appear on Disney+ next year.
As Inside Out 2 breaks box office records, Pixar creative boss Pete Docter has talked briefly about the spin-off TV series the studio has planned.
According to Docter, who wrote and directed 2015’s Inside Out, the series – called Dream Productions – will delve into the surreal reveries Riley experienced in that earlier film. Docter also added that production on the series has finished and that its release on Disney+ is less than a year away.
“We have finished,” Docter told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s coming out next spring. I’m not sure that there’s been a specific release date, but in the first film, remember we go to Dream Production to see how Riley’s dreams are made? It semi-explains why they’re so weird. We’ve continued the exploration of the power of dreams and how they affect us in our waking life, as well. So it’s pretty cool.”
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As Docter himself previously admitted in an interview with Time magazine, Inside Out 2 was the financial shot in the arm Pixar needed. “If this doesn’t do well at the theater,” Docter told the outlet on the 11th June, “I think it just means we’re going to have to think even more radically about how we run our business.”
Since then, the animated sequel has exceeded expectations; it’s made almost $380m worldwide at the time of writing, and its opening numbers were the second highest in Pixar’s history (2018’s Incredibles 2 is still in first place).
After a difficult first half of the year for mainstream filmmakers, with such movies as The Fall Guy and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga underperforming at the box office, Inside Out 2's success is a welcome bit of good news for cinemas in general.
More on Dream Productions as we get it.
