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'Toy Story 3': Does Anyone Want To Do It? Thursday, January 27, 2005 By Roger Friedman, Fox News No one wants to direct 'Toy Story 3.' That's the word in Hollywood's animation world, where the third installment of the incredibly successful Pixar series has no director, writer or, possibly, stars. My sources in the animation biz tell me that Disney, which will make 'Toy Story 3' without Pixar, cannot find a director to guide the project. John Lasseter, who directed the first two movies, will stay with Pixar after he finishes its last Disney-distributed movie, 'Cars,' set for release in 2006. It's also undetermined whether stars Tom Hanks and Tim Allen will reprise their roles in the new film. The odds are that Hanks won't, but that Allen — who's made some successful family films at Disney — will. Hanks, it's noted, is very close to former Disney chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, who now runs Dreamworks. Hanks has already made two films for Dreamworks, thanks to his friendship with another of the company's three principal partners, Steven Spielberg. Pixar just received four Oscar nominations for its current Disney-distributed film, 'The Incredibles.' 'Cars' will mark the last collaboration between the two studios, since Disney's Michael Eisner has essentially told Pixar to take a hike. Disney has the right to make sequels to all the Pixar movies it distributed, including 'Toy Story,' 'The Incredibles,' 'Finding Nemo,' etc. But there's a hitch — since Pixar developed all the animation materials to create the movies, it also gets to keep them. In other words: Disney is now trying to hire another team of animators to recreate Buzz Lightyear, Woody and all the other 'Toy Story' characters so that they look the same. It will have to start from scratch to reproduce Pixar's creative work. The next step, of course, is to find a writer and director for the project. With Lasseter gone, my source says, 'Every single animator of note has turned down the
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