Will there be a FROZEN 2?

There's no denying the pop phenomenon the Walt Disney animated movie FROZEN has created. It’s currently the top selling Blu-ray and soundtrack on Amazon. It's also recently been re-released in some theaters. Plus, there's that popular song that makes the movie itself a pop sensation. If we consider the commercial behavior of Hollywood nowadays of "striking the iron while it's hot" ...it's a sure thing that making a sequel is obviously on Disney's calendar. But that doesn’t mean that it's happening tomorrow.  Disney has no reason to rush when the original is still riding high. In an interview with Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn, he said that one of the other reasons why is that Disney is, instead, primarily focusing on the Frozen musical.  Disney loves bringing their animated features to the stage, and a Frozen stage musical is a license to print money. [hit the jump to continue]

Yesterday, Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn talked about Star Wars: Episode VII, but he also touched on some of the studio’s other major projects.  After the monster success of Frozen, it was assumed that Disney would fast track a sequel.  However, according to THR, Horn says that Frozen 2 “hadn’t even been discussed.”  Perhaps there have been no serious discussions when it comes to finding a story or hiring cast and crew, but you don’t get to a over a billion dollars worldwide without someone saying, “Hey, maybe we should do a sequel.” 

Collider notes that it’s important to remember that musicals take a while to put together, and if Disney doesn’t want to run this franchise into the ground, they have to make sure it reaches a certain level of quality.  This isn’t like Mulan or Aladdin where Disney is digging into their back catalog and to give a property a second life.  Frozen is alive and well and will be for some time.  In the long term, it’s better not to run it into the ground with a slapdash musical or rushed sequel. Fans should take heart in that rather than be disappointed that we won’t be returning to Arendelle in the near future.

Personally, I think that "Frozen" was indeed one of those flawless Disney movies that deserves to have its name in the throne-room of Disney classics. Trying to create a sequel will only just deteriorate the integrity of this one great movie. What do you guys think? Hit the comments!