Lasseter Hints at Toy Story 4

The growing mountain of speculation grows, insisting that we will be seeing a Toy Story 4. Today, the hints come from the pioneer of Toy Story, John Lasseter.

Lasseter was on BBC Breakfast this morning (watch the snippet here), promoting the release of Cars 2 in the UK (it opens this Friday), the presenters then broached the subject of Toy Story 4. Namely, they asked about Tom Hanks' comments on the show last month.

Rather than flatly denying the rumours (fuelled this past week by IMDB), Lasseter merely said "yeah, I found that really interesting too", followed by a sly smile, some nodding and "we haven't announced anything", before switching the subject back to Cars 2.

If previous hints were easily dismissible as just rumours, this seems a lot more substantial.

I'm beginning to warm to the idea of a Toy Story 4, but only if I have to, I'd rather they leave it as it is, as the best trilogy of all time! I've no doubt Pixar would make a great film, but why bother? The third film tied everything off with a poignant, emotional and pitch perfect bow. Why risk ruining it?

I guess only time will tell.

Toy Story 4?

Is Toy Story 4 already in the works? According to Tom Hanks, the voice of Woody in the Toy Story franchise, Pixar are working on it now. Hanks appeared on BBC Breakfast this morning to promote his newest film, Larry Crowne. When asked whether we would see a Toy Story 4, Hanks responded "I think there will be. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. They’re working on it now."

This is obviously huge news, if it's true, however it's debatable as to whether it is. Last year, when Toy Story 3 came out, we were told that there was no plans for Toy Story 4, but that Tim Allen, the voice of Buzz Lightyear, had signed on in case Pixar decided to produce a fourth film. Don't take Hanks' word for it, as there are always ideas floating about at Pixar, it doesn't mean anything's set in stone.

However, this is still monumental. A fourth film could ruin the perfect ending of the third, but Pixar never cut corners with any Toy Story film before.

Check out the interview with Hanks here and skip to the 6 minute mark for the Toy Story news.

Thoughts?