Incredibles 2

Uhh...I thought Syndrome died? It would seem kinda hard to survive getting sucked into a jet turbine. NO CAPES.

Where is that even being quoted from?

Oh, it was actually me. Near the top of the last page, making a casting gag joke since he's played by the star of My Name Is Earl.

Ah, okay. Forgot that. That'd actually have been really funny if I was paying attention. And I guess I've missed my chance to build off it with a Dogma joke.

From io9.com today:

Brad Bird offers an update on the film:

I have the story arc. I’m probably three-quarters through the script, first pass through the script, but we’re already boarding parts of it. I’ve got a lot of people that worked on the first one working on it, so we’re all having a good time with it.

In terms of the release date, we were originally—[the original] Incredibles was supposed to happen after Cars, and our wheels just happened to click a little earlier so they moved us up. Release dates are a little fluid when you’re making films so far in advance. Some films are tougher to come together and tough nuts to crack, and other ones comes together a little more quickly, and so I’m just going to work as fast as I can work well with a relatively small team because I like small teams better until you’ve got everything firmly figured out.

edited 16th Sep '15 2:20:30 PM by Sijo

The Incredibles 2 Will Deliver on the Promise of the First Movie

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-incredibles-2-will-deliver-on-the-promise-of-the-fi-1769637810

So it's basically gonna be an actually good Fantastic Four movie then.

Fair enough. It'd be nice to have something like the Fantastic Four, since the real Fantastic Four is done for.

That's grammatical.

Ironically by the time the Incredibles 2 comes out Disney might have the rights to the real Fantastic Four

And then they'll look at what made The Incredibles so good and quickly realize the movie just took what made the original Fantastic Four so good, and then they'll apply, or rather re-apply that to the FF and we'll finally get a movie that does them right.

edited 7th Apr '16 10:48:10 PM by drac0blade

That sounds way different than how Hollywood makes live-action films. They're all on a strict, short production schedule and reshoots and rewrites are made even after filming is done. They're almost like mass-manufactured merchandise that way.

It begins.

I wonder what that says about how far the movie is along. I assume they need voice acting done for a lot of the animation in order to sync the characters' lips with the audio.

The one reason I want to see more Incredibles is to find the answer to the one question that bothered me in the first movie: what happened to all the villains?

Because presumably, they were the reason people tolerated the Supers, and why the Government sponsored them. I can understand the public turning on them once they were no longer necessary, but why weren't they? I assume all villains were finally arrested and have been rotting in a super-prison somewhere for years now, anxious for revenge.

A breakout can provide the main plot of the movie, while seeing how The Incredibles -still adapting to their roles as a team- deal with it. Even if they choose to age up the characters a bit (so Jack-Jack can be a more credible hero for instance) this plot can still be used, in fact it would be ironic if the movie reverses the first's theme and being heroes interferes with their normal lives.

Well the superheros were forced to change their identities and give up being super,so I assume with no heros the villains no longer had a reason for being villainous and did the same

With any kind of realism, supervillains would only see the absence of superheroes as a golden chance to become more active than ever, but then the reasoning behind the retire of the superheroes was by far the weakest part of the original movie. A Civil War-esque reasoning would have been more typical but also far easier to stomach. What we got instead was more like a bad joke that didn't jive well with the rest of the relatively grounded (common sense-wise) film.

I got the impression that most of the supervillains were already behind bars at the start of the movie. And the rest were captured in the interim before the Superhero Relocation Act was passed. The government forced the superheroes into retirement because they became a liability—and they'd only be considered a liability in a world with zero supervillains at large.

Did we ever see any supervillains with explicit superpowers in the movie? Because all the ones I can remember (Bomb Voyage, Syndrome, Underminer) build stuff over having innate powers. Sure that ability can count as a superpower, but it's actually really weird all of the supervillains shown are like that.

IF THIS IS A LIE, I WILL KILL SOMEONE!!!!!!

OH MY GOD, I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YEARS!!!

According to some of the bonus features included with The Incredibles DVD, a lot of the supers received their powers from the government as well, frequently through devices or equipment. That's obviously not the case with Mr.Incredible and his family, though; no explanation at all is ever given for how or why they have powers. One supposes they felt it wasn't especially germane to the story they were trying to tell.

One thing I always thought was interesting is that, according to some advance promotional material (that I saw in Disney Adventures magazine shortly before the film was released) Mr. Incredible's real name is Robert Golden. Whether he took the name "Bob Parr" when he was relocated or this is just info from an earlier draft of the script, I don't know, but I also seem to recall Dash's name being something different as well.

edited 18th Dec '16 1:19:05 PM by Robbery

I know in an earlier draft of the script, his name was Robert Smith. Because Brad Bird wanted a last name as generic as possible.

I'd like it if we see at least a few villains that took advantage of the lack of superheroes. Other than Syndrome I mean.

In what way I'm not 100% sure. A super-powered assassin who flew under the radar by hiding their powers and never failing could work.

I want to see Frozone's wife.

"Honey! Where is my super suit?"

I do wonder exactly how much of the superheroes work was about fighting supervillains, and how much was dealing with fires, common burglars or cats stuck in trees (all of which can be handled by the police, but at a greater risk than for a super). The world of The Incredibles looked like a rather safe place to live (as in, not more dangerous than our own) before and after the supers were banned.
Maybe it is that no "super" went bad, so the worst supervillains would "only" be at the level of a Bond villain, who can be handled by, well, Bond-like agents.

In the Incredibles comics, there were super-powered villains; of course that doesn't have to be canon for the movies.