Disney announces Toy Story 5, Frozen 3 and more are in the works

Disney CEO Bob Iger has announced animated sequels Toy Story 5, Frozen 3 and Zootopia 2 are all officially in production.

Iger revealed the news during Disney’s Q1 earnings call yesterday, which was otherwise headlined by news of 7,000 job cuts and $5.5 billion in cost savings by April 2024. He described the company’s investments into Frozen, Toy Story and Zootopia as ‘leaning into our unrivalled brands’.

Each of the last three movies in those franchises crossed $1 billion at the global box office, so nobody should be too surprised that Disney is returning to them for further sequels. Frozen 2 pulled in $1.4 billion worldwide, while Zootopia crossed the 10-figure mark by a hair at $1.02 billion. The 2016 buddy cop movie arrived to critical acclaim, and has since spawned its own Disney+ series.

Toy Story really needs no introduction, but it’s worth pointing out that Toy Story 4 climbed to $1.07 billion in 2019 – while its spin-off movie Lightyear faltered at just $226 million in 2022. That may explain why Disney is setting its sights on a fully-fledged sequel to the mainline Toy Story films instead, though for many the series has already reached a satisfying narrative conclusion twice over.

What mileage remains for a fifth film will be down to Disney’s writers to determine, but Iger promised more details would come ‘soon’. Either way, there’s a roadmap there for the LEGO Group to follow in the years to come: Frozen sets are still making a regular appearance under the Disney Princess subtheme, while Toy Story made a comeback in bricks for the fourth film in 2019 (having initially debuted alongside Toy Story 3 in 2010).

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