The Polar Express 2 is now in development, 20 years after the original hit theaters. Released in 2004, director Robert Zemeckis’ The Polar Express chronicles one young boy’s journey on Christmas Eve to the North Pole aboard the titular train. The animated movie features the voice talents of Tom Hanks, among others, and was made using what was, at the time, a novel animation style.
Now, producer Gary Goetzman tells ComicBook.com that The Polar Express 2 is in the works. Unfortunately, however, the producer doesn’t provide any indication regarding how far along this development is or how likely the movie is to actually come to fruition. Check out Goetzman’s full comment below when asked about the possibility of a sequel to the Christmas hit:
“Listen, I’d love to. I’d love to do a sequel of Where The Wild Things Are. There’s a lot of the things that we’ve done, if it established itself, branded itself, those movies, studios want another one. That’s the way it goes. I’m up for Mamma Mia 3, man. That would be a ball to do right about now. But it becomes, there’s so much involved with, ‘Who’s artistic property would that be? Would that be?’ It’s just not like, ‘Hey, let’s go do another free sailing! So, they all take time and that’s okay because we don’t mind things going slowly. But that is trying to be worked out now, for sure, Polar 2. Yes.”
More to come…
