Everything We Know About ‘Incredibles 3’ (So Far)

Let’s begin with a recap of Incredibles 2…

After a destructive attack on the city during the fight against Underminer, the government shuts down the Superhero Relocation Program, making Supers illegal. Telecommunications company DevTech steps in to help legalise Supers. CEO Winston Deavor (Bob Odenkirk) and his genius tech sister, Evelyn (Catherine Keener), set out to create good PR so the world views Supers in a positive light.

They select Helen Parr/Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) to be front and centre fighting crime in New Urbem. Helen uncovers a new villain, Screenslaver, a hacker who can hypnotise people through any screen. A body camera on her suit builds the public’s trust in Supers. With Elastigirl busy working with the Deavors, Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) takes on the role of stay-at-home dad and connects with his children. He faces challenges with each child, while being envious of his wife reliving the glory days of being a Super.

Winston achieves his dream, announcing at a party the capture of Screenslaver and that he will host a summit for world leaders on his yacht to sign an accord making Supers legal on live television. After the party, Helen believes the capture of Screenslaver was too easy and begins to investigate the truth. She discovers the boy believed to be Screenslaver was being controlled by the goggles he was wearing. Upon learning the truth, those same goggles restrain Helen. The plot twist reveals that the real Screenslaver is Evelyn. Her endgame is to make Supers illegal forever.

Evelyn lures Mr. Incredible and gets the goggles on him. Evelyn’s hypnotised Supers set out to capture the children, Violet (Sarah Vowell), Dash (Huck Milner) and Jack-Jack (Eli Fucile). The kids escape, but Lucius/Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson), who arrives to protect them, is subdued and controlled with the goggles. Now the three kids must save the adults. They make their way to the yacht with a supercar Bob once owned.

On the yacht, the accord is signed and the hypnotised Elastigirl gives a villainous speech to the live broadcast with Mr. Incredible and Frozone standing beside her as the yacht’s course has been locked in to crash into Municiberg. The children find their parents and Frozone. Jack-Jack removes the goggles from Helen and in turn removes the goggles from Bob and Lucius.

Together they free the other hypnotised Supers and save the day by preventing the yacht from colliding into the city. Helen thwarts Evelyn’s escape, and she is caught and arrested.

A disaster is prevented, and Supers are now legal. Sometime after this catastrophic event, Tony (Michael Bird) gets picked up by Violet and her family on their way to the movies for their date. Suddenly a police chase passes by; the Parr family decide to help. First, they drop off Tony at the cinema, promising to return quickly. They drive off and put on their masks in the car, ready to be Supers.

What we know about Incredibles 3…

Incredibles 3 will be set weeks after the ending of Incredibles 2. The first film focused on Bob. The sequel put the spotlight on Helen. According to the announcement at the D23 Expo for this threequel, the storyline will focus on the kids and how they navigate handling their lives while being Supers.

Violet and Dash try to gain independence from their parents, who are convinced they aren’t ready to be Supers. Part of proving their parents wrong is sneaking out at night to protect the city. Meanwhile, Jack-Jack’s unpredictable powers continue to spiral out of control.

Pixar’s Pete Docter announced at D23 that Bob is “grappling with his own relevance in a world of Supers that may have outgrown him”.

Unlike the previous films, this time the villain actually has superpowers. Docter teased that there would be “a super villain with more power than all the family put together and all of the Supers,” but he was cut off by Edna Mode (Brad Bird) not to spoil the film.

Why won’t the characters be older?

Besides the obvious reason of the plot being set weeks after Incredibles 2, in an interview with The Direct, Bird said that he believed making teen Violet, pre-teen Dash and baby Jack-Jack older would “lose the archetypal aspect”. Bird believed each member of the Parr family represented certain parts of growing up. The best way to show different ages and moments of life is through each family member’s journey arc.

A new direction…

Director/writer Brad Bird of the two films won’t be in the director’s seat for Incredibles 3 due to working on his animated sci-fi noir, Ray Gunn (expected to release 18th December on Netflix). Bird will stay on as a writer and executive producer. The director’s chair has been passed on to Elemental and The Good Dinosaur director Peter Sohn.

Sohn has been involved in this franchise from storyboarding The Incredibles to being in the senior creative team for Incredibles 2. On The Pixar Show, Sohn spoke about taking on this directorial role and working with Bird on Incredibles 3 as a full circle.

“Brad gave me my first job on Iron Giant. It’s so much about the worlds and the characters that were created then. So, it versus just storyboards or designs. It’s like really getting to understand those characters in a deeper way that I never thought I would. A great honour and feel lucky to be working with him on it.”

Despite director changes, it’s the core voice cast that will stay the same. Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Brad Bird, Sarah Vowell and Huck Milner are set to reprise their roles for Incredibles 3.

Incredibles 3 is set to release July 15, 2028 in Australia, 10 years after the release of Incredibles 2.