The first movie in Pixar’s franchise was released in 1995, with the fourth film, Toy Story 4, dropping in 2019 and Disney has now announced that the fifth will be released in 2026.
All four movies so far have featured Tom Hanks as Woody and Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear.
Disney CEO Bob Iger announced in February last year that there would be a fifth movie but did not give any details.
However, in November 2023, Allen revealed he and Hanks had both been approached about reprising their roles.
Speaking on The Tonight Show, the actor said: “Bob Iger, head of Disney, said it was on and actually said it was going to happen. They have reached out to Tom and I to reprise the roles. They’re not saying anything about it. You wonder if four was too many. Is five going to be too much?
“According to the scuttlebutt, the writer that’s doing it wrote one of the better ones and said, ‘If I didn’t get this right, I wouldn’t do it’. It could be a very, very interesting way to reunite it.”
In the fifth movie, Buzz and Woody will need to be reunited after the fourth film ended with them going their separate ways as the pull-string cowboy toy left the rest of the gang to stay with Bo Beep.
