Big Hero 6 celebrates its ten-year anniversary this year, and producer Roy Conli is explaining why the beloved Disney movie still hasn’t gotten a proper sequel.
I loved that first film, and I thought for sure we’d see a sequel get made! But, Disney has yet to move forward with that, and we have no idea if they ever will.
In an interview with ScreenRant to promote his latest project, a Disneynature documentary titled Tiger, Conli explained that a Big Hero 6 sequel would not be made without the involvement of Don Hall, who co-directed the first film with Chris Williams.
Conli said: “You know, we’re celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Big Hero 6 this year. It’s interesting because it is really up to Don whether he wants to make a sequel to that.”
He added: “It was Don’s concept and idea. I always secretly urge him to do it, but we’ll see. He loves working on new property. So we’ll see what happens.”
Big Hero 6 is loosely based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name created by Man of Action. The story is set in the fictional city of San Fransokyo, the animated movie follows robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada as he assembles a superhero team to take down the masked villain responsible for his brother Tadashi’s death.
Two spinoff shows followed the film including Big Hero 6, which was set immediately after the events of the 2014 movie, using 2D digital animation to continue the story of Hiro and his superhero team.
That show was pretty good and it ran for three seasons and 56 episodes on Disney XD/Disney Channel from 2017 to 2021.
The second spinoff series was Baymax!, a six-episode series that follows Baymax as he helps people around the city of San Fransokyo. I never watch this one.
I would love to see another big screen adventure with these characters, but we’ll just have to wait and see if Hall has another story he’d like to tell with these characters.
Would you like to see a Big Hero 6 sequel?
