Wreckin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

[Gabz Girl]

http://www.rotoscopers.com/2014/04/04/henry-jackman-kind-of-confirms-wreck-it-ralph-sequel/

 

So according to the composer of Wreck it Ralph (and the upcoming Big Hero 6) there may be a Wreck it Ralph sequel on the horizon! Personally I'm excited for this because unlike Frozen, WIR has lots more potential for a sequel!

[Tani Coyote]

My armpits explode with joy!

Ahem. I mean... I'm obviously pretty stoked for this. I know Nintendo really wants in on this now, and with Rich Moore wanting to give Sonic a bigger role... I'd be interested to see what direction this would take.

I'm curious where they'd take the plot. Turbo was a perfect villain given that he was a dark mirror of Ralph in his desire to be something he wasn't, and assuming he's been completely destroyed, they'll need someone else.

I'm also curious what they'd do with Sonic if he's getting a bigger role, as well. They can't make him too important, lest he steal the spotlight from Ralph and presumably Vanelope (I think that's how you spell it), but they want to avoid making him just be a cameo. Never mind of the traditional three heroes (Mario, Link and Sonic), he's also the only one with a real personality given he actually talks.

[Echidna Adventurer CC14]

All of my YES! I absolutely adored the original and the mere idea of a sequel makes me really excited to see in what direction they go. There's SO much potential! Hopefully, an official announcement on the matter isn't too far away.

[Johnny Boy]

Oh please let the news of a sequel be true! And I'll love it even more if Sonic becomes a main character!

[Mania Pipe]

Loved the first Wreck-it Ralph film, can't wait for the second one! I can't wait to see how they handle the Online gaming and console games in the sequel!   

[FriendBot]

I can just imagine the banter Mario and Sonic would have in the sequel! Just thinking about it makes me feel light-headed....... *swoons*

[Johnny Boy]

Also, does anybody think they'll give Ralph a love interest in the sequel?

[The Disney Dork]

^I really hope not. I like the fact that he doesn't have one.

 

Would it be possible for the sequel to come out in 2015, or would that be a long shot? I'm saying that because Disney has films planned through 2018, with each year from now to then having something listed EXCEPT 2015. Besides, there is a WIR billboard in the BH6 teaser...foreshadowing? 

[Johnny Boy]

^I really hope not. I like the fact that he doesn't have one.

Would it be possible for the sequel to come out in 2015, or would that be a long shot? I'm saying that because Disney has films planned through 2018, with each year from now to then having something listed EXCEPT 2015. Besides, there is a WIR billboard in the BH6 teaser...foreshadowing?

I don't think they're gonna do a last minute announcement for a WIR sequel. Everything announced for the next couple of years has been laid out.

As for the billboard in the BH6 trailer, it's far from a hint. Disney just likes referencing their past movies in their recent ones (ex: Rapunzel and Flynn's cameo in Frozen and The genies lamp in Princess and the Frog).

[Killtank]

Yeah, I think a sequel is inevitable at this point, but I'd prefer it if they didn't rush the sequel into theaters. Also, I know a lot of people are hoping for either Sonic or Mario to be main characters, but I'd rather not have them be more than just cameos. I'd rather have the story center around Ralph and his friends and not trot out any established video game icons in their place. 

[Johnny Boy]

Yeah, I think a sequel is inevitable at this point, but I'd prefer it if they didn't rush the sequel into theaters. Also, I know a lot of people are hoping for either Sonic or Mario to be main characters, but I'd rather not have them be more than just cameos. I'd rather have the story center around Ralph and his friends and not trot out any established video game icons in their place. 

I can see where your coming from. Even if Sonic has a relatively minor role as one of the main characters, he'd still sort of steal the spotlight since he's a lot more famous than Ralph and the gang.

[The Disney Dork]

They could handle him the same way they did with Batman in the Lego Movie.

[The Chairman Of The Board]

Hey dudes because I don't know and I want to know have Mario and Sonic both been confirmed to be in the sequel??

[sonfan1984]

If they are in it then I'm kinda hoping they don't appear in the same scenes together.

[Doctor MK]

Hey dudes because I don't know and I want to know have Mario and Sonic both been confirmed to be in the sequel??

 

Nothing is confirmed as such, no. Sonic is probably a dead cert as he's such an iconic character and there was loads of crossover promotion between SEGA and Disney for the first film (what with Ralph being in ASRT, an' all!) so I see no reason why he wouldn't reappear, even if only in cameos again.

 

As for Mario, the people who made Wreck-It Ralph have stated that they want to give him a big part to play and the only reason he wasn't in the first film was because they couldn't think of anything good enough to warrant his appearance. So, with that in mind, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd written in a substantial role for Mario in the sequel. And by "substantial" I don't mean "he'll overshadow the main cast of Ralph and Vanelope", I just mean "he'll be more than a one time appearance in the background somewhere".

 

And if Mario's in, they'd be silly not to put Sonic in again too, because... well, I'm sure we all want to see those two interacting with each other on a big cinema screen!

[Tailikku]

Nothing is confirmed as such, no. Sonic is probably a dead cert as he's such an iconic character and there was loads of crossover promotion between SEGA and Disney for the first film (what with Ralph being in ASRT, an' all!) so I see no reason why he wouldn't reappear, even if only in cameos again.

 

As for Mario, the people who made Wreck-It Ralph have stated that they want to give him a big part to play and the only reason he wasn't in the first film was because they couldn't think of anything good enough to warrant his appearance. So, with that in mind, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd written in a substantial role for Mario in the sequel. And by "substantial" I don't mean "he'll overshadow the main cast of Ralph and Vanelope", I just mean "he'll be more than a one time appearance in the background somewhere".

 

And if Mario's in, they'd be silly not to put Sonic in again too, because... well, I'm sure we all want to see those two interacting with each other on a big cinema screen!

 

I kinda want it to happen like this:

 

[Johnny Boy]

BUMP

Because Disney just announced our boy is back for more on March 9th 2018 !!!!!

 

[Failinhearts]

Wreck-It Ralph is one of my favorite movies of all time, so seeing that a sequel is happening makes me very happy! The idea of the arcade characters exploring the modern world, especially the Internet is a very interesting idea indeed as shown from this picture:

now, how much screentime will Sonic have?

[Johnny Boy]

Does anybody notice the website called "Lub hub" in the image? Wreck it Ralph 2 confirmed to be the first R rated Disney movie.

[Indigo Rush]

8 minutes ago, Johnny Boy said:

Does anybody notice the website called "Lub hub" in the image? Wreck it Ralph 2 confirmed to be the first R rated Disney movie.

Grub Hub is R Rated?

 

Spoiler

Huh. Guess so.

 

[Jango]

Does anybody notice the website called "Lub hub" in the image? Wreck it Ralph 2 confirmed to be the first R rated Disney movie.

Someone's being watching to much porn [emoji102] [emoji102]

[Echidna Adventurer CC14]

*Presented for your enjoyment: My uncut reaction to this news*

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you.

As you can tell by that textual inanity that I just blew into all ya'lls faces, I ADORED the original film and ever since the mere idea of a sequel was brought up, I've wanted one. Since all we got were teases and pokes over the years, though, I utilized...alternatives. (Holiday-themed stories in Disney storybook collections, the comic book parody "8-Bit Zombie," heck, even the subpar video game adaptation with the super neat intro and ending cutscenes and nothing else.) However, nothing quite scratched the itch of a proper continuation and further exploration of the amazing world from this fantastic movie, so to have THIS...OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED...DATED...WITH CONCEPT ART...AND INFORMATION...is nothing short of a dream come true for me and I absolutely can't wait to see more. Welcome back, Ralph, old buddy. It's good to know when we can see you again.

[Emperor Robrainiac]

I gotta say, I'm super pleased to hear about the news. Wreck-It Ralph is a movie that has tons of potential in terms of world building, and i've been dying to see a sequel for a while. I know it's been teased by some of the staff who worked on the movie (Even John C. Reilly and composer Henry Jackman even said it was coming,) but it's a kind of a relief to finally not only have an official conformation, but also a release date.

Despite the first movie not exploring the game jumping concept enough, I still found the movie to be a fantastic watch, and the sibling-like relationship between Ralph and Vanellope was very endearing. But after the movie, sometimes I found myself thinking "what more could happen in the world of videogames? What if they met modern incarnations of them, or what if they traveled through the internet or consoles?" Looks like the latter is being answered, and I'm pretty interested as to what they'll have in store.

Also, if what the writers and director said was true, then Mario may be playing a big role in this movie... I can't help but wonder, if it'll be as big as Batman's role in the Lego Movie? Or will Mario be important to the plot? Either way, I'm excited.

[Echidna Adventurer CC14]

An interview from Collider giving more details. Unsurprisingly, more cameos confirmed! The picture they're weaving is making me more and more excited to see what the whole of the internet is gonna look like in this world. Full schpiel down below:

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COLLIDER: From what I understand, sequel’s coming out March of 2018, Ralph breaks the Internet. Let’s start with what year does the film take place in?

RICH MOORE: Well, it will take place in current day. It’ll be just like the first one. So it will be exactly four years, or no, six years after the first Wreck-It Ralph. The current day timeline.

Have you decided to use the title Super Wreck-It Ralph?

MOORE: You know what, it is definitely on the board. Since the day you said that, it was like, that’s a really good title. The one thing is because it’s so about the Internet and less about arcade games, it might not be the perfect fit. But spiritually, it is my favorite frontrunner right now. But I’m not sure if it’s going to make the cut, man. But it’s definitely in the running.

If you really look at the history of Disney animation, they tend to not make many sequels. They’re making Frozen 2, but besides that, there’s very few. So was there a lot of debate internally about making a sequel or was it pretty much the reaction from fans was like “oh, wait a minute – there’s a demand for this.”

MOORE: I think, and you’re right, I think Rescuers Down Under might be the only sequel that the studio has done, and like you said, Frozen 2, we’re going to do that one. But this came from two things: the fans, like you said, really enjoying the first film and then just from myself and the crew that worked on the first one, we had a really, really good time making the film. And we really fell in love with the characters, we fell in love with the world. And as soon as the film was finished, I said to my producer, Clark Spencer, like “man, if it were up to me, I would be jumping into another Wreck-It Ralph movie immediately.” Just because I love everything about the first film. Selfishly, it would be so much fun to work with all of those people again. And I had mentioned the same thing to Ed Catmull and John Lasseter, our leaders here at the studio and they said, “well, why not? Let’s do another one.” It’s the type of world that feels like there’s plenty to be explored beyond what we saw in the first movie. And the audience seems to really like it, I think it just seemed kind of like an easy decision to make.

One of the things about the first movie is you had tons of cameos. And I would imagine that while tons of people said yes, you’re still creating this IP from the ground up, people might be nervous, I would imagine now, whatever you want to use, people would be completely on board with. Because they understand the story you’re trying to make.

MOORE: It was very interesting going to the people at NAMCO, people at Sony who own things like Q*Bert and trying to explain things like what this movie was about and how Pac-Man played a part and Q*Bert and Tapper. So like you say now that we actually have something that we can point to and say, “okay, it’s going to be a continuation of this movie,” hopefully it will be an easier task to line up some cameos and other video game stars.

Where are you in the production process? How long have you been recording voices, how long have you actually been working on this?

MOORE: We’ve been working on it for about two years now. I had started on it pretty much right after the first one, to tell you the truth. Maybe it took about a year just to kind of collect my thoughts on it, but working in earnest on it, I would say it’d be two to two and a half years. And before a little film called Zootopia came into my life, we were working on the screenplay. And we had actually written a first draft of the script. And that was with myself and with Phil Johnston who’s our writer from the original Wreck-It Ralph and co-writer on Zootopia. Phil is actually coming on board as my co-director on this one because so much of the first movie was from his voice, I felt like it’s a good match for the two of us to be directing the second one together. So we had a script, a first draft of a screenplay right before I jumped onto Zootopia in the fall of 2014, and after Zootopia was done we did a table read like last December. And we’ve been working on the story process right now. We’re boarding the movie. We’ve been doing that since around the time that Zootopia was released. So we’re right in the thick of storyboarding the film right now.

I know the way the animation process works at Disney and Pixar. Have you guys gone through some of those crazy radical changes during developing the script or is the first draft very similar to what you’re doing now?

MOORE: Well, the first draft, we’ve made some pretty big changes from the table read to now. Not huge ones, not sweeping changes that happened on Zootopia where we flipped who the main character was from Nick to Judy, but we’re definitely trying to take what we learned about Zootopia of getting things up early, “being wrong early” is an expression that we like to use a lot. Just so we really hit the ground running on this one. Since we kind of know our characters, and we know a bit of a world from the first movie. Hopefully that’ll give us a leg up as we go into what is always a very arduous production process on our films.

Are you going to manage to get TRON in this movie?

MOORE: Well, I remember you talked about it a lot. There’s so much of you in this, Steven. From our conversations. You know, I think like, “Super Wreck-It Ralph is a great title,” and even like bringing up TRON, because I loved that game too, as a teenager. And we weren’t able to work it into the first one, and as of right now, I can tell you that there is a nod to TRON. If it will make it to the very end of the process, that’s always part of our journey. But definitely I’m a fan of that game and of those films, so it would be really nice to have it in.

Just because the game grid in TRON, this is just me, and this might be a really stupid thing, but trying to put Ralph inside of a lightcycle, you know… That’s a great gag. Or could be a great gag.

MOORE: It could be. I like how you think!

One of the things people loved about the first film were the vintage games and the arcade aspect, so how much of that is still in the sequel or is it Ralph going into the real world or exploring beyond the arcade?

MOORE: Right, and we definitely want to include a lot of that. Because that is a time period of video games that’s really near and dear to my heart, like growing up during that era of arcade games. So we want to represent that, because that’s a big part of our world with the first one, I don’t want to – with the sequel, I’m finding out we don’t want to just do more of the same, but also we don’t want to do something so different that it doesn’t even feel like it’s from the first movie or doesn’t relate to the first one. So we’re really trying to find that balance of how can we have those great kind of references to retro arcade culture but also have it feel that this is also a contemporary world with newer games, newer – everything you can find on the Internet. Or just about everything that can be represented in a family film. [laughs] We’re trying to kind of make that balance of both.

You had a lot of great characters in the first film, which characters can you confirm are coming back?

MOORE: Well, definitely Ralph and Vanellope are back, of course. And our supporting cast is, we are in the process of landing all those people again. If it were up to me, every character would have another scene or a moment because I love all those characters. I think it would be tough to bring King Candy/Turbo back from the dead, because that seemed pretty final, the way he went, but you never know. So, I think it’s looking right now like it’s going to be a big cast. I like making films with interesting characters and with a big, fun cast of different people. So we’re having a really good time of putting together who’s going to come back from the first one and who are the new characters that they’re going to meet.

One of the things that I took away from Big Hero 6 and Zootopia was just truly how astounding technology and animation has become. And the world creation in both of those films was exceptional. How are you going to incorporate, or are you planning to incorporate this amazing world building technology in the sequel. And how does it compare to the first film?

MOORE: Well, you nailed it. Because since the first Wreck-It Ralph, our technology team has created software that can do amazing things that we couldn’t have even done in 2012. On the first Ralph movie. So when I mention to them, “well, I’m thinking about the characters leaving that kind of sleepy arcade world and traveling to the Internet,” they said, “well, this is perfect for our software.” Because it’s like just what you say, like the world of the Internet. The artists here, the technicians, I can see them starting to think like, “oh my god, what would that look like? It’s so huge.” You know? And just the way that people speak of the Internet as just this colossal universe of websites and apps, places that a person can go. It feels like tailormade for this new technology that we have. So I’m really looking forward to pushing that technology to go beyond what we did in Big Hero 6 or Zootopia. And those were kind of building more realistic cities that we would see in our natural world. So this time we’re going to take that same technology and build a very fantastic world. A world of the Internet and what that would look like. And try to capture, for the first time in a big movie, we are now growing up with the Internet and seeing what it is, and trying to kind of visualize that for the first time and send characters into that world.

[Teoskaven]

>it's gonna be about the Internet

>obligatory selfie and hashtags jokes

>very likely references or jokes revolving Tumbrl, Reddit, Youtube and/or Facebook

>potential Youtubers cameos like Smosh or PewDiePie; best case may be the AVGN

>very likely social commentary about how pirating games on the Internet is evil and makes you a satanist

>possibility (and i hope to Heidegger this doesn't show up) of references or social commentary about 4chan and memes

>potentially even less screentime for actual videogame references and cameos

 

...yeah, i'm just gonna wait until more informations on the movie will be revelaed or we'll have actual trailers.