Tom Hanks says there will be a Toy Story 4

June 27, 2011 By Ryan Fleming

In an interview with the BBC, Tom Hanks said that Pixar is working on Toy Story 4.

While doing publicity with the BBC for his upcoming film, Larry Crowne, Tom Hanks was asked if there would be a Toy Story 4 for his newly born granddaughter to watch. Hanks replied “I think there will be, yeah. Yeah, I think they’re working on it now.”

That probably shouldn’t be all that surprising since Toy Story 3 became only the third film ever to be nominated for Best Picture, and it won Best Animated Film for 2010. Oh, and it made well over $1 billion and went on to become the fifth highest grossing film of all time, so there’s that.

Obviously, if Hanks is correct, there will still be a lot of work between now and the release of a fourth movie in the series. Even if Toy Story 4 is in the earliest stages of development at Pixar, that doesn’t make it a certainty that it will happen. But again, the last film made over $1 billion.

This is the first mention of a Toy Story 4, so no release date is known. Pixar has a pattern of releasing one movie a year since 2006, sometimes waiting two years between each film. With both Brave and Monsters University already confirmed for 2012 and 2013 respectively, Toy Story 4 wouldn’t hit theaters until after that.

[Updated to correct a typo. Thanks to our reader "moff" for letting us know!

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Cow Layfo at 5:03pm 28th June 2011 Movies about death are often said, Jamie.
moff at 7:45am 28th June 2011 Hi, Ryan. Enjoyed your article. I'm one of those annoying folks who can't let go of grammatical stuff....so... in your second paragraph, it should be 'won', not 'one'. I do like the way you write...the flow of your words. Go Jayhawks! :)
Jamie Smith at 12:13am 28th June 2011 can they make it happy and not so depressing as in the 3rd one??? that movie made me sad=(
Cow Layfo at 12:08am 28th June 2011 That would be a mistake. A huge mistake. Never stretch a trilogy into a fourth movie. It has never, and will never work. Ever. EVAR.
Gregor Findlay at 10:49pm 27th June 2011 oh god, this is gonna turn out like Episode One...
Jerry Luttrell at 10:36pm 27th June 2011 a Toy Story 4... is this the one when they’re all melted down into little lego blocks?
Matthew Beedham at 10:15pm 27th June 2011 ^ I already know how that story ends
Scott Aron Bloom at 10:09pm 27th June 2011 I liked TS3..however is this gonna be about a lonely boy in college playing with his woody?
Michael Little Bear Neely at 10:08pm 27th June 2011 Wow, let it die already good lord.
Michael Jung at 9:45pm 27th June 2011 still waiting on The Incredibles sequel
Crystal Thérèse at 9:41pm 27th June 2011 Oh let it die... TS3 was horrible IMO.
Lorne Hammond at 9:39pm 27th June 2011 Toy Story 4: The Search For More Money - In theatres soon, bring your kids and their friends, buy the 50.00 tub of popcorn..
Matthew Beedham at 9:39pm 27th June 2011 Ruined it.
Sarah MarLo at 9:38pm 27th June 2011 Yay!