Brad Bird, who wrote and directed Pixar’s first two Incredibles films, explained why the third movie won’t have a time jump to age up the characters. Bird is writing and executive producing Incredibles 3 while Peter Sohn takes over as director.

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In an interview with The Direct, Bird said that aging up Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack would “lose the archetypical aspect” of the story.

“They were meant to represent parts of life that you go through,” he said, before explaining the symbolism of each.

The baby of the Incredibles family is Jack-Jack, who exhibited several different powers in the first and second films. “So, everyone has been a baby, and they know what babies are. Babies are… who knows what they are, right? They might be amazing. They might be the next bum on the corner. You don’t know. Babies are an unknown. They might have all the powers. They might have none of the powers. You don’t know.”

Regarding young Dash and teen Violet, he said, “When you get to 10. People are energetic, anxious, all over the place, short attention span… Sugar[y] breakfast cereal. Go, go! That’s 10-year-olds. Teenagers are insecure. They want to be invisible. ‘Don’t look at me. Don’t look at me. I’m not feeling comfortable. I’m defensive. I’ve got force fields…'”

The symbolism extends to the parents, Helen (Elastigirl) and Bob (Mr. Incredible). “Moms are pulled 10 different directions at once, like taffy, so it makes her elastic. Dads are expected to be strong, you know.”

“And so, those are family archetypes, and aging them up doesn’t help that at all,” he concluded. “People just keep thinking that aging them up is going to make them somehow hipper or cooler, or more like them, and it’s like no, it won’t.”

The Incredibles was released in 2004, followed by Incredibles 2 in 2018. Despite the gap, they are set one right after the other. Pixar hasn’t announced story details about Incredibles 3, but it seems we can expect it to follow in the footsteps of the previous films.

Incredibles 3 is scheduled for release on June 16, 2028, 10 years after Incredibles 2 and 24 years after the original.

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