Huh? Tom Hanks Has Already Seen 'Toy Story 3'

I don't imagine there was much debate about whether or not Tom Hanks would return to the Toy Story franchise, but the way he and his co-stars made their decision was rather peculiar. Hanks talked about the 2010 3-D Toy Story movie with Empire, saying, "They did not send us a script. They showed us a complete story reel of the entire movie, with storyboards moving from one to the next, and the people up at Pixar recorded some voices with some music and sound effects." "Tim Allen and John Ratzenberger and I went in a movie theater, watched the reel and said, 'This is great, let's get to work." Hanks also discussed the schedule he's keeping while recording the dialogue. And it's not as easy as going in one day and reading the script in a sound booth.

"I have been in and done three big complete recording sessions and will probably have at least one more to do, possibly in about eight months. Then eight months after that I'll do a mop-up and have three more sessions after that. Those movies are beasts."

Hanks is lucky to have seen the movie (or at least some version of it). We won't get that chance for almost 18 months.

Comments

[MRPigg]

That is peculiar. Considering the creative track record of the studio, it's a wonder why Mr Hanks and Mr Allen would even think about not doing the third one. It's not like Disney is cobbling together some hacky script just to make money.

[Orinn]

They had to show them something, they didn't just say yes. At this point the track record speaks for itself. These companies cant really afford to make a bad movie, takes to much time to crank one of these out.

[im]

Check out these kids rapping about Toy Story 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4LIPF7LRs