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Ellen Degeneres Reportedly In Talks To Reprise Role As Dory In ‘Finding Nemo 2′

August 22, 2012 by 9 Comments

Ever since Finding Nemo made its way into theaters, Ellen Degeneres, voice of scene-stealer Dory in the film, has made it quite clear that she would like Pixar to make a sequel. She may get her wish, as last month it was reported that the animation powerhouse had started exploring a follow-up after director Andrew Stanton came up with a great idea. While that remains unconfirmed by both Pixar and Disney, another report has emerged that claims Degeneres is in talks to reprise her role as the blue fish.




The Hollywood Reporter (which cites no sources) reported late last night that the daytime talk show host is “in negotiations” to return for a follow-up to the smash hit which until Toy Story 3 was Pixar’s highest grosser at the box office. If the story is true, I see no challenge in getting Ellen back, considering her many calls for a sequel.

What remains to be seen is whether Finding Nemo 2 would be a sequel or a prequel (a la Monsters University). However, while Monsters, Inc. had a perfect ending in the sense that the audience was given the task of imagining up its own conclusion, the Finding Nemo simply had a happy finish. This makes it a bit easier not to tread on the toes of the original film, whether the next film is a prequel or a sequel.

While all of this is still unconfirmed, the film would be on track for a release no earlier than 2016.

What are your thoughts on a possible Finding Nemo 2? Yay or nay?

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About Samad Rizvi

Samad is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Pixar Times. His favorite films include The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Vertigo, Back to the Future, Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, and of course, Pixar's Monsters, Inc., WALL-E and Up.

  • Piyero

    May be it’ll be called Finding Dory =P you know, she forgets her own name one day, and hears someone trying to find a fish named Dory, and she starts to swim trying to help finding her, and Nemo an his dad found out she’s lost doing this, so they go out to find her as well, and they create a whole drama about the fact tha she loses her identity, and what an identity is, ist it the memories? is ti a more solid concept?… XD hahahahaha too much?

    Sorry for my lame english, it’s not my birth lenguage =P

    • otterprods

      The idea of lost identity/memories seems like the most solid concept to explore. That’s more or less what I was thinking about when I said they might delve into something around Dory’s mental challenge without getting too dramatic about it. My guess is that if signing Ellen isn’t just a rumor, it’s because they’re going for something like this, with Dory as the main character this time. Themes around watching children grow up and leave home have already been covered really well in the TS trilogy and The Increds.

  • Anonymous

    I kind of hope this doesn’t happen. I’d like to see Pixar work on more stand-alone, original films (i.e. not part of a franchise) and not do sequels for the sake of sequels. I know Pixar has said they only do a sequel if the story is strong enough to be it’s own story and not ride the coattails of the original, but it kind of seems like this might just be seizing the opportunity to play on the success of the first movie. That being said, if it does happen I’ll still watch it, and hope for the best considering it’s Pixar. I just have one last hope: that it isn’t called “Finding Nemo 2″ or “Finding _____” or anything with “Finding” in it. Because in all honesty, is Nemo just going to get lost again? That seems pretty silly.
    Nevertheless, I have faith that you’ll not do something unless it’s REALLY worth doing, Pixar! :)

    • otterprods

      “I have faith that you’ll not do something unless it’s REALLY worth doing, Pixar!” SO… did you not see Cars 2?

      • The Same Anonymous from Before

        I actually liked Cars 2. The point wasn’t to be an emotional powerhouse like Wall-E or Up were. John Lasseter said that he wanted to make a fun, spy movie. The point was to be fun. And it was. I think people can’t just have fun at the movies anymore. It has to fundamentally change you as a person or else it’s not a good movie. People need to lighten up a bit. Granted, it wasn’t quite at the same level of amazing that we’ve come to expect from Pixar, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t decent.

        • otterprods

          That’s fine. I never said that Cars 2 was terrible or anything. But you yourself said that you expect Pixar to only make movies that are REALLY worth doing. So you think anything that’s a ‘decent’ amount of ‘fun’ (your words again) is REALLY worth doing?

  • otterprods

    Gill was still just a little fishy at the end of the first movie, so there are still plenty of themes to explore around raising a child as a single parent. There are also lots of things they could focus on around Dory and her mental ‘challenge’ without getting too dramatic. If Stanton has indeed come upon a fresh premise, there’s no reason a sequel (or a spinoff) couldn’t work within such a vast world. But, as Samad pointed out, the HR article did not cite any sources, so this is still not officially out of the rumor mill by any means.

  • http://twitter.com/alexfpc Alejandro Fantino

    Well, I’m feeling very skeptical about it. Having already seen it in 3D, it’s easy to realize what made Finding Nemo so special. It’s a very conclusive tale with a solid start and a solid ending, a piece of self-contained storytelling that doesn’t really need any kind of expansion. However, it’d be nice if what Stanton came up with some sort of spin-off, keeping the story within the “Nemo Universe,” but leaving the characters from the original film untouched.

    But with news like this, the possibility of a spin-off is less likely.

  • Chris Etrata

    I am a bit skeptical of Finding Nemo 2 for obvious reasons. This had a perfect ending so would the sequel be Finding Nemo Again? However, if they choose to do a completely different plot, it may be criticized for using the Finding Nemo brand name when it could have been an original film.