Is it getting chilly in right here? It could be, as a result of in response to John Leguizamo, a sixth movie within the prolific Ice Age franchise could also be on the way in which. Throughout a visitor look on the Wait Wait…Do not Inform Me! podcast on NPR, Leguizamo mentioned “We’re about to do Ice Age 6!” in his finest Sid the Sloth voice, though the Encanto star did not increase on the information a lot past that one assertion. The Ice Age IP is now beneath the stewardship of The Walt Disney Firm following its merger with twentieth Century Studios, although Disney has but to make an official announcement that Ice Age 6 is within the works.
The information {that a} sixth Ice Age film is in early improvement is each a little bit of a shock and never a shock in any respect. It is stunning within the sense that the animation studio behind the long-running collection, Blue Sky Studios, closed its doorways in 2021, thus seemingly placing the Ice Age collection on ice (so to talk). That being mentioned, the Ice Age saga has confirmed itself as one of the priceless animated franchises within the business, as evident by its six characteristic movies and a number of other spin-off shorts and specials. To not point out, the Ice Age collection can be the fourth highest-grossing animated franchise of all time, surpassing even that of Kung Fu Panda, Inside Out, and (paradoxically sufficient) Frozen.
What’s the ‘Ice Age’ Story So Far?
The Ice Age story started over twenty years in the past with the unique installment, the place we primarily observe a grieving wooly mammoth named Manny (Ray Romano), a slipshod sloth title Sid (John Leguizamo), and a grumpy saber-toothed tiger named Diego (Denis Leary). The unlikely trio embark on a cross-continental quest to get a younger human child returned to his household, the place they type a lifelong bong within the course of. That, in fact, is only the start of the story for Manny, Sid, and Diego, as they’ve confronted nearly every part you’ll be able to consider within the many movies that adopted.
We noticed the heroes of Ice Age face a worldwide disaster in Ice Age: The Meltdown, face prehistoric reptiles in Ice Age: Daybreak of the Dinosaurs, outsmart a charismatic band of pirates in Ice Age: Continental Drift, and even forestall an extra-terrestrial menace in Ice Age: Collision Course. Following the closure of Blue Sky Studios, the Ice Age collection nonetheless lived on with the franchise’s first ever spin-off movie, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, although a lot of the forged from the unique movies didn’t reprise their roles aside from Simon Pegg. Adventures of Buck Wild was developed by Bardel Leisure, and Bardel’s official web site does listing an unannounced Disney+ undertaking on their web site, so that would probably be a sign that they are persevering with to work on the franchise for the sixth official installment.
The remainder of the Ice Age collection is out there to stream on Disney+.
