Pixar’s next is…

I first heard rumors about Pixar’s next film about two weeks ago when the rumors about Disney/Pixar taking over JOHN CARTER OF MARS began to materialize. D/P wanted MARS as a project for Andrew Stanton (FINDING NEMO) to direct but there was concern that Stanton wouldn’t be done with the next Pixar film until 2008, pushing back MARS considerably. I did some research to see what I could find out about this 2008 Pixar film but was able to find nothing else other than a mysterious name, WALL-E. Yesterday, Pixar announced in a letter to shareholders that WALL-E, directed by Andrew Stanton, will indeed be their next film after RATATOUILLE and that the film will follow a young robot looking for love and a home in outer space (at the above right is Wall-E himself). WALL-E will hit theaters on June 27, 2008. Pixar’s 2009 film is expected to be TOY STORY 3 but that has yet to be confirmed by the studio. The first teaser for WALL-E will be attached to RATATOUILLE when it hits theaters this June.