If you had read my Blu-ray review of the massively successful Pixar Animation Studios film The Incredibles, you likely noticed that I’m a huge fan of director Brad Bird‘s (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) CG animated story about a family of superheroes. Much like other fans of the film, I’ve wondered for almost seven years why there has yet to be a sequel featuring our favorite family of “Supers”.

Brad Bird recently spoke with the fine folks over at Movies.com and addressed that very question. Check out what he had to say below!

“I think the reason it hasn’t [happened] yet is because the studio would like me to do it, if there were another Incredibles,” he explained. “And I’ve told them that I’m not really friendly to have someone else take away my child.” He indicated he had come up with several concepts which he thinks would make for a good sequel, but refuses to rush them into production just for the sake of the film’s moneymaking potential. “I would like to think that I have several good ideas that could be incorporated into a next Incredibles, but I don’t have a whole movie yet, and the last thing I want to do is do it just because it would open big, or something like that.”

Bird also said that he will only embark on a sequel to The Incredibles if he feels it can top the original, much like Toy Story 2 had accomplished.

“I want to do it because I have something that will be as good or better than the original,” he insisted. “Toy Story 2 was, to me, a perfect sequel, because it absolutely respected the first film but found new places to go without selling out its characters. So if I could come up with an idea that is to Incredibles that Toy Story 2 is to Toy Story, I would do it in a second.”

The Incredibles hit theaters in 2004, and hopefully we will see a sequel some day!