Director Andrew Stanton told Entertainment Weekly that he made Finding Dory because he felt that Dory’s story was something that needed to be explored.
Pixar’s Finding Dory is off to a massive start.
Finding Nemo was Pixar’s highest grossing film of all time when it was released in 2003, a title it held for seven years.
If Pixar wanted to simply cash in on that success they would have made a follow-up much sooner than today.