Disney fans get look at ‘Incredibles 2,’ ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’

ANAHEIM » When it comes to Disney, they like to keep it in the family, whether it’s getting a football team’s worth of original Disney princesses to cameo in “Wreck-It Ralph 2,” reuniting “The Incredibles” fourteen years after the original film hit theaters, or securing a new director for “Toy Story 4.”

John Lasseter, the chief creative officer of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, led a confetti, joke and song-filled presentation of the upcoming animation slate for the studio Friday at the star-studded biannual fan convention D23 in Anaheim, just steps from Disneyland with appearances of people from Kristen Bell to Samuel L. Jackson.

Sporting his signature Disney-themed Hawaiian shirt (this time with “Inside Out” characters) Lasseter, who was also identified as a “former Jungle Cruise Skipper,” announced that he would no longer be directing “Toy Story 4.” The job is going to “Inside Out” screenwriter Josh Cooley, who was previously going to co-direct with Lasseter. He assured the thousands of fans in attendance that he would be mentoring and guiding Cooley through the process as an Executive Producer. “Toy Story 4” is set for a June 2019 release.

Disney is also getting its most beloved princesses together from Ariel to Mulan for “Wreck-It Ralph Breaks the Internet,” in a humorous scene in which Sarah Silverman’s Vanellope decides to mess with the princesses and finds them to be cooler than she expected.

Some of the familiar voices audiences can hear when the film hits theaters on March 9, 2018, will include “Beauty and the Beast’s” Paige O’Hara, “The Little Mermaid’s” Jodi Benson “Mulan’s” Ming-Na Wen, “Moana’s” Auli’I Cravalho, “Pochahontas’s” Irene Bedard, “Tangled’s” Mandy Moore, and “Frozen’s” Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell.