Here in the UK, we’ve still got a couple of months to wait until the arrival of Disney’s video game-inspired CG-animated offering Wreck-It Ralph (and sadly, we’re embargoed from telling you how good it is). However, the film has already proved a big hit with audiences and critics alike across the pond (not to mention giving the studio its best-ever opening for a non-Pixar animated feature) so it won’t come as much of a surprise to learn that talks are already underway about a sequel.
“Some of the big muckety-muckets at the studio, who I just saw the other night, were like ‘We’re talking sequel!’” says John C. Reilly (Step Brothers), who voices the eponymous villain-turned-hero. “The movie made $150 million dollars in eleven days, it broke the box-office record for Disney animated movies on opening weekend. If that’s any indication that we’ll be doing a sequel… I bet we’ll be doing a sequel.”
Meanwhile, director Rich Moore also seems confident that Disney will give the green light to Wreck-It Ralph 2 – and this time, we might just see the inclusion of everyone’s favourite moustachioed Italian plumber: “At dinner last night we were already talking about it. So we’re talking ‘What could do they do? What kinda of things could happen? Who could be in it?’ We’ll really come up with something good for Mario to do. To be able to present him in the sequel, would be great.”
Wreck-It Ralph is out now in North America and opens in the UK on February 8th, 2013.
Originally published December 8, 2012. Updated April 10, 2018.
