[quote="Simba the Lion King"]Well, here are the reasons I believe it may be made.
1. Lasseter isn't going to stay forever.
2. The sequels are very popular, and make good money.
3. 1.5 would be a very weak way to end the film franchise.
4. "The Land Before Time" got 12 sequels. Given that, EVERY Disney film has a chance of getting at least one more.[/quote]
1. John Lasseter is a massive icon in the world of animation, I'd say he's going to be around for an
extremely long time. He founded Pixar and has been working for/in association with Disney for 20+ years. He's not leaving any time soon. Anyway, by the time he does leave TLK will be an old and 100% dead franchise.
2. The sequels make money, yes, but are infamous for their poor quality, lack of faithfulness to their source material and blatancy as being quick money making schemes for the studio.
3. Many of Disney's brilliant movies were turned into series and ended on notes far worse than TLK1.5 e.g. Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Fox and the Hound, The Jungle Book, Pocahontas, need I go on?
4. The Land Before Time is made by an entirely separate studio, and the quality of it's 50 bazillion sequels hasn't exactly been upstanding from what I've seen.
Look, there's a reason they've put a stop to Direct-to-DVD sequels. They're just plain
bad. The TLK sequels only seem less bad to me because I love the original so much, but it's not true for the others. Disney Toon Studios was originally established to make Disney's TV series, but when they crossed over to movies, that really showed. They have lower budgets, less resources, less good story-writers... you see my point. Never has there been a Disney sequel on par with it's corresponding original, at least in my opinion. Some do come close, like the TLK sequels, for instance, and I know there are people here who like the sequels more than the original, but personally I am not in the same boat.
I don't just doubt that there will be another movie. I'm certain of it. The original TLK was such a huge success that I think Disney is just going to let sleeping dogs lie, and not try to pump any more out of it (besides merchandise maybe, but I don't know) A suggestion I've seen here before is that a new movie would be theatrically released, but I'm certain of this never happening, either.
But please, if in the future it turns out I'm wrong, don't hesitate to get in touch