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Pixar's Pete Docter tacitly admits live-action remakes of cartoons kind of suck

"It sort of bothers me," the Inside Out director admitted about the trend. "I like making movies that are original and unique to themselves."

Disney has now been earnestly engaged in its “let’s make live-action remakes of classic animated films” project for nearly a decade at this point, displaying a typically bulldozer-like determination to render the brightly colored past into greyish CGI goo that’s now encompassed huge swathes of the company’s near-century of cartoon output. When that prompts Time to ask whether Pixar has ever considered going the live-action remake route, though, Docter shoots the whole thing down pretty bluntly without even stopping for a Raccacoonie reference: “No, and this might bite me in the butt for saying it, but it sort of bothers me. I know that I like it.’ Sequels are very valuable that way.” But even for a guy who’s embraced that mindset, making a live-action version of Toy Story or Monsters Inc., or, god help us, Cars, is apparently beyond the pale.

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