It was Woody kind of setting out, outside of the bedroom, to bring Bo back to a kid’s room. JOSH COOLEY: Andrew Stanton had originally written an outline for a story that was about the return of Bo Peep. “Early on in this process, there were a couple of screenings we did where it felt very Toy Story, in the sense of, ‘These are the characters we know.’ It didn’t feel new.”īy thinking deeply through story and playing with the rules of Toy Story’s world, Cooley was able to pull off his greatest ambition with the project-to “earn the title of Toy Story 4.”ĭEADLINE: How did the story for Toy Story 4 come together? One of the primary challenges and goals for Cooley, in making the film, was to take creative risks, and “throw this wrench into the works of everything we’ve come to expect with Toy Story,” he tells Deadline. “So, it was really cool, seeing these two groups that just really love it.”Īn Oscar nominee for his contributions to the Inside Out script, Cooley developed the story for Toy Story 4 alongside John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Valerie LaPointe, Rashida Jones, Will McCormack, Martin Hynes and Stephany Folsom. We had people that were the OG team, and then we had newer artists that would show me pictures of them dressed as Buzz Lightyear for Halloween when they were five, and now were working on Toy Story,” he explains. “The interesting thing was, we had people that worked on the first Toy Story film my production designer designed Buzz Lightyear 30 years ago, and now he’s working on this one. While studios and the filmmakers working for them are often wary of mounting sequels, fearing that they won’t stand up to the original material, Cooley notes that the teams at Disney and Pixar could not have been more supportive of his efforts with Toy Story 4.
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