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Cars 2 is a computer-animated 3-D film that will be produced by Pixar Animation Studios and is the sequel of the 2006 film Cars. It will be distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, and is scheduled for release on June 24, 2011. Ratatouille producer Brad Lewis takes over from John Lasseter as director. In the film, Lightning McQueen and Mater travel around the world.[1]
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Cars is the second Pixar film to have a sequel (the other one being Toy Story). Cars 2 originally was scheduled for a 2012 release, but Pixar moved the release up a year. It is the first of two films that Pixar will release in 2011 (the second being The Bear and the Bow), marking the first time that the studio will release more than one film in the same year.[2] Lasseter conceived the sequel's story while travelling around the world promoting the first film. "I kept looking out thinking, 'What would Mater do in this situation, you know?' I could imagine him driving around on the wrong side of the road in the UK, going around in big, giant travelling circles in Paris, on the autobahn in Germany, dealing with the motor scooters in Italy, trying to figure out road signs in Japan," he said.[3]
By late 2008, three cast members of the original Cars had died; Joe Ranft (Red) was killed in a car accident in August 2005, during the production of the first film, George Carlin (Fillmore) died of heart failure in June 2008 and Paul Newman (Doc Hudson) died three months later after losing an ongoing cancer battle in September 2008. No announcements have been made as to whether the roles will be recast or simply written out of the sequel.[4]
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