Eventually, Toy Story 4 found its story by realizing that the first three movies weren’t about Andy, but actually all about Woody, which meant there was clearly story left to be told.
As Jonas Rivera told me…
Last month I got to sit down with Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley and Producers Jonas Rivera and Mark Nielsen, and the three of them spoke to me about how, while they agreed that the ending of Toy Story 3 was something special, it wasn’t quite the ending that many people thought it was.