Hoppers 2 is within reach, but Pixar must crack one make-or-break problem

Right, so a quick update for anyone who got into Hoppers when it landed earlier this year: there’s plenty of talk around the prospect of a sequel, but as you’d expect with Pixar, it’s not all green lights and cash grabs. They’re game to do a follow-up, but only if they can actually crack a worthwhile story. Hardly the most radical approach, but these days, you can’t take it for granted.

The State of Play: Hoppers 2?

If you missed it, Hoppers dropped in cinemas on 6 March 2026, and didn’t just show up to look pretty. It’s pulled in glowing reviews pretty much across the board—the usual Rotten Tomatoes stats: currently sitting at 94% from critics, and a near-identical score from audiences. More to the point, it raked in over $380 million worldwide on a $150 million budget—which, if you’re counting, is exactly the sort of result that attracts sequel talk in Hollywood boardrooms.

Unsurprisingly, fans and studio execs have started asking, ‘Where’s Hoppers 2 then?’ So, what’s the holdup?

Daniel Chong Opens Up (Sort Of)

Director Daniel Chong recently popped up in conversation with ComingSoon's Tyler Treese, and while he wasn’t exactly laying out the roadmap, he did have a few things to say about what might come next. Apparently, he’s just come back from a break after releasing the film—fair enough. But when asked about sequel plans, he summed it up like this:

'All I can say is there’s a lot of desire for it to happen from everybody, and we’ll see what happens. Pixar is notorious for not making anything if there’s no story there. They will scrutinize the hell out of it. We’ll just see what happens and go from there. We definitely cut a lot of stuff out of the movie because this movie was never short of ideas. There’s definitely a lot of material we could pull from for a sequel if we had one.'

So, in other words: no official confirmation yet, but nobody’s ruling it out, either. It’s less ‘we don’t want to’ and more ‘we’re not doing it unless the story actually works’. That feels very Pixar—stubborn, but you’d have to say it’s worked for them so far.

Quick Recap for the Uninitiated

• Plot: Follows a girl who uploads her mind into a robotic weaver—yes, that old chestnut—and what follows from there.
• Main voice cast: Piper Curda as Mabel Tanaka, Bobby Moynihan as King George, Jon Hamm as Jerry Generazzo, plus Kathy Najimy, Dave Franco, Eduardo Franco, Sam Richardson, Meryl Streep. Not much of a slouch in the casting, frankly.
• Producer: Nicole Paradis Grindle
• Executive Producers: Pete Docter, Peter Sohn, Kiri Hart
• Streaming: It made its way onto Disney+ earlier this month, fresh off a strong box office run.

There’s your lot—Pixar’s keen, but not desperate. The sequel hinges on finding the right story thread amongst the pile of ideas (and apparently, that pile is already pretty big).