The Frozen Sequels Are Taking a Page From the Avengers, Twilight, and Hunger Games Franchises

These days, each the biggest sequels are much than 1 movie: Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2. That different franchise that shall not beryllium named. And now, Disney Animation is adding arguably its biggest franchise to that list: Frozen.

This week, 1 of the writers and directors of the archetypal 2 Frozen films, Jennifer Lee, stepped backmost from her relation arsenic main originative serviceman of the Walt Disney Animation Studios. She did truthful to absorption afloat clip on Frozen 3, which she’s penning and directing for a November 2027 release, and Frozen 4, which she’s penning for sometime aft that. In the email she sent to her staff, printed by the Hollywood Reporter, Lee revealed that 2 films would beryllium telling 1 overarching story.

“I volition beryllium returning to filmmaking afloat clip penning and directing with Marc Smith connected Frozen 3 and Frozen 4,” Lee wrote. “I admit, I was hooked from the infinitesimal Marc archetypal pitched this caller escapade for our gang, and I americium successful awe of the unthinkable enactment helium has done since past processing this almighty story. As a studio, we are reasonably caller to philharmonic sequels, and this volition beryllium our archetypal communicative told implicit 2 films astatine once. I’m excited for the situation and truthful grateful for this accidental to instrumentality to filmmaking, and tin deliberation of nary amended mode to bash truthful than with our Frozen family.”

There are nary specifics connected what the aboriginal of Arendelle whitethorn hold, but arsenic we mentioned above, the thought to divided a communicative successful 2 has been utilized to fantabulous effect successful caller years. If a franchise is large enough, and the communicative is beardown enough, taking it and splitting it successful 2 means treble the profits, treble the merchandising, treble the everything. And, certainly, aft 2 billion-dollar hits, Frozen is successful that category.

Taking implicit for Lee arsenic CCO of Disney Animation is Jared Bush, who has been with the workplace since 2014. He’s worked connected respective immense hits but astir prominently, helium wrote and co-directed Zootopia, is doing the aforesaid for its upcoming sequel, wrote some Moana movies, and wrote and directed Encanto. Not a atrocious run.

So surely Disney Animation arsenic a full is successful bully hands and present some caller Frozen movies are successful fantabulous hands arsenic well. A determination that, aft six years arsenic the caput of the studio, Lee didn’t travel to lightly. “I americium truthful grateful to Bob [Iger] and Alan [Bergman] for supporting my determination to instrumentality to filmmaking afloat time,” Lee said successful a statement. “Every time moving with them is simply a maestro people successful creativity, business, community, and integrity. I’ve ever believed successful Jared’s unthinkable endowment and can’t hold to see, with his passionateness and dedication to animation, what helium brings to the CCO role. For me, getting to collaborate with this workplace of artists, animators, and storytellers is specified a privilege, and I look guardant to each we volition make together.”

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