20 years after it hit theaters, The Polar Express 2 is now in development.
The Polar Express was a movie adaptation of the 1985 children’s book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg. Set during Christmas Eve, a young boy gets the experience of a lifetime when a mysterious train stops outside his window.
The animated movie featured Tom Hanks voicing multiple characters and was made using what was, at the time, a novel animation style.
The movie wasn’t the biggest box office success, but fans have always wondered about a sequel.
Now, producer Gary Goetzman tells ComicBook.com that The Polar Express 2 is in the works but doesn't provide much more. Here's what he did say.
"Listen, I'd love to. I'd love to do a sequel of Where The Wild Things Are. There's a lot of the things that we've done, if it established itself, branded itself, those movies, studios want another one. That's the way it goes. I'm up for Mamma Mia 3, man. That would be a ball to do right about now. But it becomes, there's so much involved with, 'Who's artistic property would that be? Would that be?' It's just not like, 'Hey, let's go do another free sailing! So, they all take time and that's okay because we don't mind things going slowly. But that is trying to be worked out now, for sure, Polar 2. Yes."
There is no Polar Express 2 book, meaning the sequel would seemingly be an original story.