Incredibles 3 has found its director in Elemental and The Good Dinosaur filmmaker Peter Sohn.
Brad Bird, who wrote the screenplays for and directed the first two films in the animated superhero film franchise, is currently writing the screenplay for the third film, which he will produce alongside Dana Murray (Soul).
The first two films follow Bob and Helen Parr (Craig T. Nelson and Holly Hunter), who are better known to the wider world as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl. The pair hide their superpowers and identities with a quiet life in the suburbs with their three children — Violet (Sarah Vowell), Dashiell ‘Dash’ (Spencer Fox) and Jack Jack, who also have superpowers. Samuel L. Jackson voices Mr. Incredible’s good friend Frozone aka Lucius Best, another secret superhero.
Sohn and Bird’s collaboration history includes Bird’s mentorship to Sohn, who has worked on every animated Bird film — including The Incredibles (2004) and The Incredibles 2 (2018) up until this year’s Ray Gunn. Sohn was specifically chosen to carry The Incredibles torch by Bird and Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter. Sohn is a Pixar veteran, having also voiced characters in various movies for the studio, like Ratatouille, Monsters University and Lightyear. Elemental, Sohn’s second movie that he directed at Pixar, was nominated for the best animation feature Oscar last year.
Disney announced the threequel film at August 2024’s D23 Expo event, with Bird attached as “developing” the latest installment. The first two films netted a combined $1.8 billion in theaters with a 14-year gap in between releases.
Jason Lee voiced Syndrome, the villain of the first film, and voice cast for the second film included Catherine Keener and Bob Odenkirk as Evelyn and Winston Deaver as well as Sophia Bush as Voyd.
The Hollywood Reporter first broke this news.
