I’m honestly amazed that it has taken this long for Frozen — the highest grossing movie of 2013 — to get a sequel. The movie grossed well over a billion dollars at the box office, beating out the likes of Iron Man 3, Despicable Me 2, The Desolation of Smaug, Catching Fire and Fast & Furious 6. It raked in nearly double what Man of Steel made that same year and stayed in theaters for the better part of a year. And it’s only now getting a sequel.
Well, not now, exactly. Although Disney has reportedly been working on the follow-up to their insanely popular take on the Ice Queen since 2014, they’ve only now set a release date for it: November 27, 2019. Fans of the first Frozen will have to wait another two years before finally seeing what happened to Anna and Elsa after returning to Arendelle.
In a way, it’s refreshing that Disney’s taking its time with this one. I grew up in the 90’s, when a movie this popular would have gotten two or three straight-to-VHS movies and an TV series by now: none of which would have come close to the quality of the original film. You’d get your timely sequel, sure, but at the expense of animation quality, script quality and the original cast. And while you might get a decent musical number here or there, it wouldn’t be anything close to the “Just Can’t Wait to be Kings” and “Beauty and the Beasts” that we fell in love with the first time around.
Six years is a long time, sure, especially now that we’ve come to expect sequels at an increasingly rapid-fire rate, but it’s a small price to pay for quality. From what little we currently know about the movie, it will feature the return of the original cast, directors and writer. It will undoubtedly feature the same exceptional animation quality as the firsts, and the best musical numbers that money can buy.
Although 2019 is admittedly quite a way away, the big studios are starting to fill in the release dates for their most anticipated blockbusters. Frozen 2 is currently set to release between two live action Disney fairy tales, one at the beginning of November and one in late December. That same time frame will also see the release of another musical, Wicked, and another animated movie, a currently untitled project coming from Sony.
Even against such admittedly stiff competition — some coming from Disney itself — it’s a safe bet that Frozen 2 will easily outpace the competition. In fact, I’d be shocked if it didn’t end up being 2019’s top-grossing movie. At any rate, between this, Avengers 4 and Star Wars: Episode IX, 2019 is unquestionably going to be the year of Disney.
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