Rio might not have the sterling status of some Pixar releases, and even different Blue Sky franchises like Ice Age, but it surely was an enormous deal when the primary movie was launched in 2011. It grossed a whopping $485 million on the international field workplace and was even nominated for Greatest Authentic Track on the 84th Academy Awards. Not a foul legacy to go away behind.
Given the success the primary Rio had, it solely made sense for Blue Sky Studios to launch a sequel. Rio 2 (2014) might not have received over the critics to the extent that the primary movie did, but it surely managed to gross much more, taking in $499 million. The query, after all, in an business dominated by sequels and spin-offs, is the place the heck is Rio 3?! Effectively, it is likely to be nearer than you understand.
Let’s begin at first. In the course of the Rio 2 promotional tour, director Carlos Saldanha talked about the potential for a 3rd movie. He was not solely open to the concept, however revealed that he had been considering of concepts for what the story could possibly be. “After all, I’ve quite a lot of tales to inform, so we’re [starting to] put together for it,” Saldanha instructed CinemaBlend. “As a result of we love these characters a lot, and there are quite a lot of issues in my head that possibly I couldn’t put within the film. I needed to take them to a distinct place. So I don’t know but. We’ll see what occurs.”
It appeared as if issues ended there, as there was no point out of a 3rd movie till 2019. Then, fairly unceremoniously, an replace was supplied by a press launch for one more movie. Discussing Movie broke information of a brand new Ice Age being developed by Blue Sky Studios and twentieth Century Fox after the latter had been bought by Disney, and the outlet talked about {that a} Rio spin-off was additionally within the planning levels.
The spin-off would reportedly deal with the characters Nico and Pedro, who appeared in Rio 2 and have been voiced by Jamie Foxx and can.i.am, respectively. This is smart, provided that Foxx was one of the vital vocal actors when it got here to the potential for extending the franchise. ‘They’ve to return to Miami,” he stated within the aforementioned CinemaBlend interview.
Extra particulars would are available January 2022, when a press launch for Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild revealed that Jim Hecht can be writing the script for a model new Rio movie. The press launch, obtained by The DisInsider, learn:
He’s presently creating an animated collection based mostly on a New York Instances best-selling youngsters’s e-book and writing streaming films for twentieth Century Studios/Disney Plus. The function initiatives embrace the subsequent installment within the Ice Age franchise, the subsequent installment within the Rio franchise and an animated function model of the Night time on the Museum film franchise for 21 Laps Leisure and Disney Plus.
The press launch made it unclear whether or not Hecht is writing Rio 3, the Rio spin-off that was beforehand teased, or a spin-off that we don’t but learn about. Regardless, followers can relaxation assured understanding that they’re getting one other chapter within the franchise.