No WALL-E 2

by Liam on February 3, 2009 · 24 comments

wall e header WALL-E writer/director Andrew Stanton told MTV that a sequel probably won’t be happening.

“Personally, I never consider sequels,” WALL-E writer/director Andrew Stanton told MTV News. “I think that takes a lot of hubris to think that your idea is going to live on and on, and I always love the idea of something just being contained and done.” But didn’t Stanton co-write the screenplay for “Toy Story 2”? Maybe there’s a chance someday for a second go at WALL-E?

Pressed if he had any ideas in mind for the characters in the animated feature, Stanton was blunt: “Not for me, no.”

“We work on these things for so long,” he explained, “that we have a hard time simply thinking that the [first] film is ever going to be done. I’m not against sequels, and I’ve certainly experienced personally and seen secondhand great sequels, but I don’t go in with that intent.”

WALL-E brought in a huge $532 million worldwide when it was released last year, so a second film would probably be a hit. However, it is good to see people thinking creatively, and not just seeing $$$ signs.

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  • jordanevanswales

    I jst don't get it. Stanton? if you're reading this, STOP, BEING, AN, IDIOT! you co-writed Toy Story 2, so what is stopping you making a second movie of Wall.E? it's simple. Don't make an excuse saying “We have no idea what to do for the second” because here is the obvious one. First, Wall.E and EVE helping the captain farm and build building with Wall.E up to his ol' ways, then EVE accidently “falls” on him, and Wall.E gets shy blah blah, everything gets built. Then 'something' happens and Wall.E and EVE 'stops' the bad 'something' from happening, and then they kiss and hold hands blah blah, and save Planet Earth! and then add, Wall.E and EVE have kids!, this IS a kid movie too, so it doesn't matter saying “But they're robots, it wouldn't make sense” because the kids wouldn't care, and neither would the fans. This is a great idea which took AGES for me to put together, the 'something' could be a meteor and/or so forth, and they went out in their space-ship (the one they were on in the first Wall.E film) and stop it. Well there ya go! it would be guaranteed to get another Oscar! I swear on it! I promise. Besides.. it's 100% guaranteed to. Oh and don't say “But it didn't make enough money for motivation” because YOU CO-WRITED TOY STORY 2 which 'DIDN'T' MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS “Wall.E” DID! SO HA, no excusus!.

    - Thanks, Jordan.

  • super wall-e fan

    Hey! jordanevanswales,you are an IDIOT too!! what the F*** are you thinking? they don't have to have those stupid adult thinking way. AND WHO said that kids don't care!!!! I am a mom with 5,they all care about that STUPID adult-thinking dirty mind!!!!! ;(

  • inside

    Wall•E´s ending is perfect the way it is, and Jordan, it takes much more than a cliché story to win academy awards. Everything you saw on Wall•E was carefully planned, the lightning, sound effects, philosophy, and etc. Unfortunately some ignorant dogs don´t realize how hard it is to create such a masterpiece.

  • inside

    Wall•E´s ending is perfect the way it is, and Jordan, it takes much more than a cliché story to win academy awards. Everything you saw on Wall•E was carefully planned, the lightning, sound effects, philosophy, and etc. Unfortunately some ignorant dogs don´t realize how hard it is to create such a masterpiece.

  • savannah

    i love wall.e and i think a second wall.e would be great. for the same reason. But hears my idea. after ( well u Know after the end of the first movie where eve fixes wall.e and all that.) The people and the robots are working hard to re build the earth,(and get into shape).they get way to tired out to fix up the earth when the captin remembers that their more people on other ships. so he asks walle and eve to find all the other ships. and send them home. (i think it would also be really cool if their would more robot wars like in the first) P. S. if pixar reads this please dont play with walle and eves love, they really should stay a couple,(if u want the movie t be good)

    • Johnvalles

      Smart

  • ChangVue

    Actually I was thinking… Like when the captain shut off Auto-Pilot. (When Auto-Pilot goes on a mutiny because of A113) Somebody or something, switches the manual to auto… Because some people are tired and don’t feel like living on earth. But that’ll be too typical of a war-like robot/human movie like terminators.

  • WALL-E IS AWESOME

    Wall-E was the greatest movie ever!!!! I really wish Stanton would consider writing/directing a Wall-E sequel at PIXAR studios. With the first being so magical it doesn’t seem very hard to at least brainstorm some ideas for the second. “savannah” has a great idea that could really be expanded over time through many storyboards. I mean it does sound more like a series idea, what with all the different ships to give plants to, but if done carefully, it could make a perfect sequel. Maybe, while the humans stay back on earth to get healthy and re-vegetate the planet, Wall-E and EVE are assigned captains of a new robot team who’s mission is to travel the galaxy in search for the other Axioms, take down their A-113 crazed Auto Wheels, and hyper drive them home with the use of an Earthling plant. Since the team is well designed for the job at hand, multiple Axioms could return to Earth during the movie, while subplots grow stronger into main plots. Or, perhaps just EVE is assigned captain of this mission and leaves Wall-E on Earth to help the humans revive it. Something could go wrong and they loose transmission with EVE’s team, giving Wall-E another reason to go on a second galactic adventure in search of his sweetheart! Many great subplots could be made here, including John and Mary’s child beginning to grow up and perhaps befriend Wall-E and EVE’s own son. This could create a pathway from the subplot to the main one by means of them sneaking into space looking for Wall-E and ending up being the ones who save the day. Like I said, many many many storyboards and a lot of time and money would be needed to create a Wall-E squeal, but i believe Stanton could do it if he’d just realize how much people want there to be one!!

  • I LOVE WALL-E

    personally, i think if they made wall-e 2 i would DEFINATELY go see it – probably because at the end of the movie i was wondering what would happen next with wall-e and eve.

  • Gloria

    yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

  • Pounceroreo

    Even though I would ADORE a sequal I respect the writer in taking a stand and just ending the movie so that it will always be great where nothing will ruin it.

  • http://koowie.com Koowie

    DDI – DON’T DO IT!! Wall E definitely had the perfect ending, we don’t need BAD sequels like Oceans Thirteen

  • Royedmardagoc

    im just sad because, there won’t be a sequel

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mikee-Racadio/1814093382 Mikee Racadio

    i think that i would love to have a wall-e 2 coz i want to see what happen to wall-e and eve and the people who are fat hahaha :)) 

    i promise i would love to see it if there was continuation of it. please make a wall-e 2 i would love to see what happen to earth if they rebuilt it completely.

  • Acid Fish

    Hey Stanton, I’m not going to make you change your mind but atleast take into consideration to what i’m getting at, I actully liked Wall-E not for the reasons these people might, but I still liked it, the whole thing was crafted to make sense, it wasn’t a bunch of random events it was actully following a well properized storyline you should give yourself credit for that.  Now what I was actully getting to an idea for the sequel, but first My favorite character, and no one mock me for this, AUTO.  The guy was the only robot actully programmed to not feel anything, he stood by his directive all the way, and even though he was made without emothions he actully showed small signs of emotion at the end.  Now my idea for the sequel is that somehow AUTO is turned on accidently because of a glitched bot looking for some thing but bumps into the AUTO switch on his panel and decides to leave because he can’t find anything, then AUTO returns to life slowly, Outside everyone is completly unaware of his reactivation, EVE and Wall-E are on thier daily duty when the captain calls them, of course they came and went straight to him.  He requests a very hard task, he asks them to return to the criser which had been where Wall-E was nearly crushed, EVE and Wall-E worry at first but decide to go unaware of a certain one eye robots awakening, Back on the Axiom Auto has asked the computer to replay all that has happened before he went off line, after finishing seeing what happened he couldn’t believe that they still were alive, he became very angery, which was unusual for him, His CPU was frying up, as he suddenly screamed out and said with rage  this is all that trash compacter’s and that malfunctioning EVE drone’s fault, they would all be safe in space if it wasn’t for those two mucking up the whole thing.  After yelling he couldn’t help but let out a sinister laugh, he realized what he must do in order to make everything right, he must destroy Wall-E and EVE.  I hope you atleast take consideration in this but if you don’t want to think about this idea, i’m perfectly fine with your decision, there are plenty other movies you and disney make right?

  • David

    i think all you have to do is play with the aspect of wall e reseting sure his personalitys back but there could still be some orders hard wired from the reset somthing like the last given order buzzing around in his head that would be all it takes and the idea that auto comes back online and the robots are tied to his orders so he could use them to extend his reach from the axiom all it takes is some thinking and you could make walle 2 a hit with adults and kids

  • mamalovesnate

    I’m actually in agreement with Stanton.  Please don’t do a WALL-E sequel if it can’t be as high quality as the first.  Look at what happened when Disney attempted Cars2.  Ugh.  

  • Love Wall e

    Maybe he can express the sequel in another way like a book or something.

  • H60hadgi

    QUOTE   “STOP, BEING, AN, IDIOT! you co-writed Toy Story 2,”

    Anyone see the irony here?  hahaha

    • Kalanac

      Glad you saw it too :)

  • Vladciuru

    En 2012 aparesera Wall E 2 lo he averiguado por internet.
    Asi que no se preocupent que queda poco.

  • Kalanac

    They guy doesn’t want to do a sequel…let it drop!  Wall-E ended just nicely, no loose ends to wrap up and I really enjoyed seeing the restoration of earth playing out in the credits which was a lovely touch.

    If he bows to pressure and works on something that his heart isn’t in it will lack the thing that made Wall-E great in the first place and would be some cold sterile hack job.  By all means, if Mr. Stanton is suddenly struck by the muse and has a great idea, I’ll watch it gladly, but I trust him enough with his own creation as to whether it’s done or not.

    Rather than clamouring for something which is unlikely to happen and might be bad if it does, why not just eagerly await his next idea?

  • Crappity13

    I like savannah’s idea. What about the other ships?

  • Entrepreneur101

    Maybe this is a good. I was extremely disappointed with Cars 2.