Overview
- Disney Animation Chief Creative Officer Jared Bush disclosed the project during an interview with Collider at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival.
- Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde will remain the central protagonists anchoring the story.
- The third film will add birds to the Zootopia ecosystem and may be the first to take the story outside Zootopia City.
- Disney has not set a release date and says the studio is keeping the production schedule flexible, with animated features often taking several years to complete.
- Conversations about adding new species began during the original film’s development over 15 years ago, a history that the studio says informs its plan to expand the franchise’s world and characters.