Zootopia 2 (Disney Animation) (2025)

[Jake Lipson]

Title: Zootopia 2 (Disney Animation) (2025)

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman

Release: 2023-11-26

Plot: The sequel to Zootopia (2016.)

 

[Jake Lipson]

Bob Iger just confirmed that another Zootopia movie is "in the works."

‘Frozen’, ’Toy Story’ & ‘Zootopia’ Sequels In The Works, Disney CEO Bob Iger Says

Animated sequels to ‘Toy Story,’ ‘Frozen’ and ‘Zootopia ‘are in the works, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced on the February 8 Q1 earnings call.

deadline.com

The forum software wanted a release date to make the thread, so I added today's date. Obviously, that is not the case. I will update the release date whenever Disney announce more information.

 

[Edwin-S]

Bob."Barrel Scraper" iger is back. Why is he announcing sequels to Toy Story and Frozen like as if they never had any? Did he forget that Tory Story has already had 3 of them and Frozen has had one?

Zootopia is about the only film out of all of them that warrants a sequel.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Why is he announcing sequels to Toy Story and Frozen like as if they never had any? Did he forget that Tory Story has already had 3 of them and Frozen has had one?

Of course he knows that. He called them "some of our most popular franchises."

I love all three of those, so I would certainly welcome new installments if they are good. But I hope they have stories worth telling and they aren't just brand extensions for the sake of brand extensions.

 

[Sam Favate]

Good. Zootopia had a great world that’s ripe for exploring.

 

[Edwin-S]

Good. Zootopia had a great world that’s ripe for exploring.

That's the only one with any room for expansion.

 

[Malcolm R]

How a bout a sequel to The Princess and the Frog? Isn't that the movie about which they're re-doing Splash Mountain? Seems like they'd want to bring that back with something current.

How about another Tangled?

And are these all going to theaters, or just for D+?

 

[Jake Lipson]

And are these all going to theaters, or just for D+?

Toy Story 3 and 4, both Frozen films and Zootopia all made a billion dollars each. Why wouldn't they go to theaters? These are exactly the kind of franchise films that Disney excels with in the theatrical marketplace.

How a bout a sequel to The Princess and the Frog?

That movie was hand-drawn. I genuinely don't know if Disney has enough traditional animators left to do another full-length feature film like it at this point. They might or might not. The hand-drawn animation sequences in Mary Poppins Returns were outsourced to another studio instead of having Disney do them in-house. The last time Disney made a hand-drawn animated film was Winnie the Pooh in 2011. However, Tiana is getting a Disney+ series, which I suspect will be a bunch of shorts like the Baymax and Zootopia ones last year. There has been no word as to whether the Tiana show will be hand-drawn.

How about another Tangled?

Walt Disney Television Animation already did that with a Disney Channel TV series that produced 60 episodes. Alan Menken won his Emmy (the final award which completed his EGOT) for writing one of its songs.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Zootopia 2 has been scheduled for November 26, 2025. I have updated the release date in the first post accordingly.

‘Zootopia 2’ Lands 2025 Theatrical Release, ‘Alien’ Movie Gets Title

'Zootopia 2' is hitting cinemas over the Thanksgiving break on Nov. 26, 2025.

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Along with Moana 2 announced today, this will give Disney two consecutive sequels releasing in their traditional Thanksgiving window. That happened once before with Ralph Breaks the Internet in 2018 and Frozen II in 2019, respectively.