![]() “It’d become a tiny people movie, as opposed to a Toy Story film. “So there’s definitely an element of that, but it was clear that it couldn’t just be that,” Cooley says. Director Josh Cooley recalls that era and how he quickly veered away from it. “It was sort of rooted in its romantic comedy roots,” producer Jonas Rivera tells me of early memories of the project. With a physicality that was at least partially inspired by Geena Davis in A League of Our Own, the Bride in Kill Bill, and Aly Raisman on the uneven bars, she comes like a blast out of the past into Woody’s life as an ex-flame who teaches him the beauty and joy in what he once used to fear-that of being a lost toy.īut it wasn’t always the case, originally conceived as a romantic comedy crux, the Toy Story 4 originally being whispered about at Pixar five years ago (back when its codename was “Peep”) appeared quite different than what is in the finished film. While she retains her hoop dress, it is now a Robin Hood-styled cloak, and her shepherd’s hook is a martial arts staff. The result is a Bo is more physical than Woody and also more versatile than almost any toy we’ve seen. While she remains true to what you remember from the early Toy Story movies, the fact that she hasn’t been in a film for 20 years gave the opportunity to enhance her design from the original 1995 picture. “Folks from Story and from Art and from Animation, and Cloth, that really rallied around the idea of keeping Bo as a really special and unique standout character that didn’t fall into tropes or anything you’d typically see in an action film.” The result was a radically redefined Bo. “Team Bo is what we called them, the kind of group within the team,” producer Mark Nielsen says during a Q&A. Hence why Pixar from the beginning was dedicated to developing a group across all fields in developing a Bo who was more dynamic than what we first remember. Despite being one of the legacy characters from the original 1995 movie, and one with a crackling personality in large part thanks to Annie Potts’ vocal performance, she only has a few minutes of screentime in the first two films before being written out entirely of Toy Story 3. It is not a spoiler to say that Bo Peep has never been given her full due in previous Toy Story movies. ![]() ![]() As Story Supervisor Valerie LaPoint explicitly said during our visit of Pixar Animation Studios, she’s the very “reason to make this movie.” Yet an interesting thing became clear to us as we met the animators and artists working to make Toy Story 4 a worthy successor of the trilogy that came before: in doing Bo Peep justice, she changed the very direction of the film. Bo Peep was always going to have her moment in Toy Story 4.
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