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It's like Christmas morning.

What is it going to be?

And then when you actually get there and you read it, then saying, oh, oh my,

this is a little farther and higher than I thought it was going to be.

Okay, one, two.

Okay, everybody, coast is clear.

It was the first computer animated feature.

Toy Strews.

In my mind, it was just something that a bunch of us were doing for fun,

basically in our garage.

Hold on, this is no time to be hysterical. I had no idea what animation

was about.

Whole days of grunting and groaning. It's very, very difficult.

Hello?

There's so much of Woody, the character in Tom Hanks, and I think there's so

much of Buzz. When we're together, you go, good God, this is Buzz and Woody.

It's been too long, cowboy.

Working with Tim in this has been one of the best things that ever happened to me

as a guy.

Everybody grew up and loves Toy Story. They're here!

That's why we love it so much. It feels like an old friend.

I was just blown away.

I couldn't believe that I was part of it.

Well, it might surprise people to learn that the very first Toy Story, the film

that revolutionized animation, almost never happened.

We showed them a screening, and they said... shut it all down, fire all your

animators. I just don't think I can take that kind of rejection.

We didn't know what you were doing.

Now, 31 years later, Toy Story 5 is hitting theaters. It's good to be back.

And the stakes couldn't be any higher.

Toy Story is one of the most beloved film franchises maybe in the history of

cinema. It needs to be excellent, so the bar is incredibly high.

So high, Pixar recruited the biggest pop superstar in the world to do the song.

Sometimes you just have a lightning bolt moment where you're like, I have to

write this now, and I've never had it happen that quick, actually.

So it was really special.

Come on, bullseye!

This is... Don't mind me.

Just really like the movie.

Two and...

I was five when I first saw Toy Story, the first film, and I actually still

have my VHS tape from 1995.

I think it really speaks to if you've made resounding, meaningful art, if

somebody has kept their VHS tape for 31 years.

You know you're in rarefied air when one of the biggest superstars on the planet

wants your autograph on one of her most cherished possessions.

But that's what happened at Toy Story 5's red carpet premiere in Hollywood.

Taylor Swift, take one.

I was absolutely dazzled by it. I felt very strongly that it is my favorite Toy

Story movie.

So, who's responsible for all this?

Welcome to Disney's Pixar Studios, the birthplace of the first feature-length

computer animated film, Toy Story.

Now, Pixar has been around since 1986 or so. Since 2000, this campus has been

home to an ever-expanding number of creative and innovative people.

Technical directors, artists, writers, all dedicated to one idea, reinventing

the animated film. We had the dream of doing a feature. No one had done it with

computers.

I remember there was this feeling of anticipation, like we had something

really, really special that we were making that the world had no idea about,

and we couldn't wait to get it out. You had these kind of upstarts at Pixar who

kind of felt like they were flying by the seat of their pants and were

creating things that nobody had seen before, but were somehow doing it

without seeming to know what they were doing.

We're going to have to break a few rules, but if it works, it'll help

everybody. This is a whole, don't we call it a new art form?

They have a new language, so no one's seen before, but a language

that's totally appealing, this visual computer language.

It was a very big risk.

It was innovative.

Disney has always been at that intersection of innovation and

technology, and the team at Pixar blends those two superpowers so well.

Let's move!

Now, 40 years later, this scrappy band of upstarts is again light years ahead.

And now comes the latest sequel in the franchise that has changed animated

storytelling forever.

Woody! Toy Story 5.

The toys are back, and they're dealing with a problem that I think is way

bigger than any they've faced before.

Oh, thank you, thank you!

Hi there, I'm Lilypad.

Let's play!

Toy Story 5 pits toys against tech in ways that make them unsure of their

future.

Extinction! Not again!

Not only is it in this new shape in Lilypad, this device that is just so

much more advanced than any toy, even Buzz.

I don't know, Jesse.

Toys are for play, but tech is... It's for everything.

The writers on the film of Toy Story 5, they were like, okay, the reality is

there's technology, we all have phones, we have tablets, our kids do.

What does that do to us?

It's a struggle, daily.

Tech's invaded our house too.

It's all about answering this big question of what are toys going to do in

the face of technology.

Our kid needs to learn how to make friends and your screen ain't helping.

And Toy Story 5 is not just about how screens are stealing playtime. For those

of us who might be old enough to remember actually buying a ticket to the

very first Toy Story, the toys themselves are starting to show their

age. What are you? Some sort of old man toy?

What? She thinks you're old because you're bald, Woody. I would call it a

cradle cap.

I'm shiny.

Someone needs a brown marker.

Every man should have a little bit of a sharpie with the right color of the

hair. Who goes there? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Sorry.

We had a lot of fun coming up with what do we do about Woody.

because we knew he'd been gone for a little bit, but we wanted to have fun

with it. We just tried to go, what's interesting about Woody's life that

hasn't been told before?

We all kind of love teasing him and torturing him a little bit.

She really let things go.

Oh, my. Oh.

We're definitely like the toys in that we are seeing kind of the world go by

and trying to kind of figure out where our place is in that and kind of make

peace with how the world is changing.

Well, I guess they're used to that at Pixar because in 1995 they changed the

world with Toy Story, a seminal event not unlike the release of Snow White

back in 1937 by Walt Disney Studios.

There's a kind of a funny connection between Toy Story for Pixar and what

Snow White was for Walt Disney.

Founded in 1923, Walt Disney Studios had done a lot of short films,

groundbreaking short films, and they were amazing.

But the future of the company was still uncertain. Walt Disney wanted to make

Snow White as his first feature film, and he wanted to make it with a kind of

deeper film than people might have expected from animation.

He said that he didn't make films for children. He made films for the child in

the adult.

And what a difficult task that was, and how many in Hollywood laughed at Disney.

saying this was the film that was going to bankrupt the Walt Disney Studio

because there was no way in the world they were going to pull it off.

But as we know now, it was unwise to bet against Walt Disney.

Snow White became the highest grossing movie of the year 1938 and held the

record for the highest grossing animated film for the next 55 years.

Snow White was monumental for Disney. It set the tone for everything moving

forward. And the success of Snow White saved the fledgling studio and paved the

way for so many Disney classics that we've come to know and love.

After what we might call a dry spell in the 1970s and 80s, there was definitely

a renaissance of Disney animation.

In 1994, we get The Lion King, which I mean, one of the greatest soundtracks of

a film of all time.

And then that film goes to Broadway just three short years later, in 97.

So Disney found themselves once again on a roll, king of the hill when it came to

animated movies. What they may not have known is that up the coast in

California, 370 miles away, there was a group of creative upstarts who were

going to change everything about animated movies.

There was a sense of, like, we're going to be the rebels.

Let's move!

We're not going to make a musical. We're not going to make a fairy tale. It's not

going to have magic.

So it was very much about what they weren't going to do, and it wasn't going

to be Disney.

Walt Disney once said of the company he founded, I only hope that we never lose

sight of one thing, that it was all started by a mouse.

For Pixar, it all started with a lamp.

Luxo Jr.

was essentially our calling card, our way that we introduced what we could do

with our technology.

That technology was developed in the early 1980s by the now legendary Ed

Catmull, the computer scientist who was one of the founders of Pixar.

It was the name of the computer box that we built.

Since it's working with pixels, the elements of a picture, we named the

company Pixar.

George Lucas, flush with his money from Star Wars, is interested in developing

digital filmmaking tools.

And he brings in this team, Pixar.

Lucas called them his little rebel group.

They constantly talk about what they call the movie.

which would be a movie made entirely out of computer graphics.

But before they can make their movie, George Lucas sells this upstart tech

division to somebody who knows a little bit about computers, Apple founder Steve

Jobs. So we need storytellers. Man, I'd never touched a computer before I got

there, and neither had you. No, not really, yeah. And you look back, and it

looks illogical that we ever survived it. Yeah, and why did they hire us?

The initial part was to make short films.

And we were amazed by what the people were doing with computers, and they

seemed amazed by what we could do with our pencils.

At the core, it's about having the audience fall in love with and empathize

with the characters up on the screen, even though it's all artificial.

It's pixels.

It's the secret sauce of Pixar.

So they are, in the late 80s, early 90s, still cooking up the idea of a feature

-length computer animated film. And that would be a bold endeavor.

Inspired by the success of the Oscar-winning short Tin Toy, they decide

that their first feature will be about toys.

The old-fashioned tin toy in the short film, in their imagining, becomes a more

modern spaceman.

Buzz Lightyear, who was a space ranger.

Very cool kind of astronaut toy that all the kids would have wanted.

An early name for Buzz Lightyear was Lunar Larry.

We also had a version where he was called T-Core and Tempest from Morph.

Early versions of Woody were as a ventriloquist dummy.

In fact, he was called Dummy. He also has that kind of articulated jaw.

And they just decided it didn't work.

and they thought what could kind of contrast with this new and exciting

space toy a western cowboy toy their first choice to

play the voice of woody they're aiming high one of the most popular actors of

the 1990s tom hanks who's just coming off of a league of their own there's no

crying in baseball now how to convince tom to do it we

did a test We did a really crude test.

Nobody had seen anything like it at the time.

They showed me Woody screaming a line from Turner and Hooch.

Oh, no, no, no, you're eating the car!

Don't eat the car!

Not the car!

Do the arms, come on. Don't eat the car! You're eating the car! Why are you

eating the car?

No, you stupid!

And we showed it to him, and he couldn't stop laughing. As soon as I saw it, I

said, boy, get it? Okay, let's go.

Now, for the Space Ranger Buzz, Pixar wants a comedian, a comic actor, who can

go way over the top with the character.

So we signed on Tim Allen.

We had pictured somebody overdone heroic.

Yeah.

Very heroic. I'll save you. That was the original, very big, brassy, hey, Buzz

Lightyear, I come in peace, I do all, it was all the same tone. So he had this

bravado. He didn't catch that he was delusional.

he thinks he's real he's not but he was right uh he wrote everything never

having made a feature film pixar decides to partner with the walt disney company

under the deal disney would finance and distribute toy story and thereby retain

the rights disney knew how to do a feature we tried to be really good

students

But when Pixar first screens Toy Story for Disney executives, let's just say

Buzz and Woody aren't going to infinity and beyond.

In fact, they go over like a lead balloon.

We showed them a screening, and they said, this is just not working. Shut it

all down.

It was existential for the company.

Everything was riding on this. This was Black Friday.

Get them off!

My name is Woody.

I come in peace.

Used to live here.

All right.

So today in Toy Story 5, we know Woody as affable, lovable.

He's a cowboy you can count on.

Woody!

Came here as fast as I could.

But the Woody who appears in this rudimentary version of the very first

Toy Story, really just voice and storyboards, that's shown to Disney in

1993, that Woody is frankly...

Kind of a jerk.

So shut your mouth and get them off the bed!

Do it.

Now, Slank, or I'm throwing you off!

That screening was born out of fear.

We were desperate to make something that worked. Disney knew how to do a feature.

We tried to be really good students.

And so we got a lot of advice that we took too literally.

We kept getting these notes that it was too juvenile.

too cute and so we kept getting edgier and edgier and edgier until we sort of

were just annoying and unappealing woody i'd just like to wish you luck i i i

know you'd do the same for me woody was very unlikable slinky slink slink slinky

get up here and do your job are you deaf i said take care of

them uh i'm sorry woody We showed them the screening, and they said, this is

just not working.

Shut it all down.

Fire all your animators. Move the story crew to LA, and we're going to work with

you guys. So this was Black Friday.

We were just like the punk kids in the back of the seat fighting in a car.

Hello. Whoa,

whoa. Didn't elevate the concept of friendship or getting to know each

other. Luckily, somebody wisely said.

give us one more shot are you threatening me just give us a couple of

months and we'll we'll turn this around at this point we had to rethink things

so this is the sequence where woody and buzz first meet they had to redo the

relationship between the two so that you understood both of their problems and

then you liked them and you cared about them everything was riding on this so

that's the pressure that's now on this team, and in that pressure, there were

some times where they were, like, magical.

It's in good shape. First, we have the dialogue.

No, listen, no one's getting replaced.

We got into the characters.

You got it all wrong, Potato Head. There were toys that were still in the bedroom

for our kids that were in the bedroom when we were kids.

If there were toys that seemed to have stood the test of time, why not put them

in?

Hey, Etch, draw.

Etch was from our childhoods, right? We knew Etch-a-Sketch, and it was fun to

have that there, but it gives a little authenticity because you're putting real

-world toys along with our characters. It gives a sense of scale, familiarity,

nostalgia.

Hey, Slinky?

Right here, Woody.

I'm ready this time.

So it kind of set the tone in a way, so it's a believable world.

But to breathe comedic life into these inanimate objects, they decide to call

on some of the most talented funny people around, like Mr. Warmth himself,

Don Rickles.

Hey, look, I'm Picasso.

I don't get it. It's like perfect casting, right?

Age is three and up. It's not supposed to be babysitting Princess Drool.

He could be really acerbic and he could be really biting and sarcastic and kind

of mean even in a playful way.

You want cultured swine?

What are you looking at, you hockey puck?

To play deeper into the nostalgia, Pixar opens the film with the plastic green

army men from the 1950s. This becomes the first completed sequence in the

film. Joe Rampt, who was our head of story, had these little green army men.

A lot of us did, but would often play act with them as kids.

They pull out their guns just to, you know, make sure the coast is clear and

everything's safe.

Sergeant?

Establish a recon post downstairs.

Code red.

You know what to do. Yes, sir!

Like military grade, you know, guys not messing around at all.

We are code red. Recon plant Charlie.

Execute. Let's move!

These little plastic toys glued to the boards, you know, so they can't move.

They created a little rig, and then the animators would put the shoes on and try

to figure out what their physicality might be. Like, would you hop? Would you

kind of tip from side to side?

Sarge turns around, gives him the silent hand signal to freeze. The bazooka man

down on one hand, the mortar guy, the minesweeper, everyone's just frozen.

What in the world? Oh, I thought I told him to pick these up.

Sorry. And by softening Woody's hard exterior... Buzz, I can't do this

without you.

I need your help. ...the Pixar team has written themselves out of a crisis.

Now reimagine the cast and crew gather in Los Angeles to screen the film. That

was the first time we showed the movie to outside eyes.

You just couldn't ignore how big the crowd was and how vocal they were.

You'd think they'd never seen a new toy before.

Well, sure, look at him. He's got more gadgets on him than a Swiss Army knife.

And Annie Potts was sitting in front of us with her husband, and the minute the

lights came up, she turned around and goes, you guys are going to make so much

money.

I'll say it again.

Wow. One of the best movies of the year.

I don't want to give away the ending, but if they didn't make it safely, Buzz

wouldn't be with me here today.

And then that it was seen and reviewed well and did well enough that people

were like, you guys get to do another one. We were like, what else is there?

What do we do? And so I remember talking about something with bugs.

Ants don't serve grasshoppers.

It's you who need us.

In the next...

10 years. You call yourself a monster?

Scary feet, scary feet, scary feet. Oh, the kid's awake.

Pixar was like on this trajectory.

First day of school. Wake up, wake up. Come on, first day of school.

Of crazy success.

Finding this freshness that, you know, audiences were just loving and just

hungry for.

Bob Iger, who started here at ABC, is going to be the new chief executive.

When Bob Iger came in.

He was very smart. He knew how important, obviously, animation was to

Disney. He understood no one was doing it like Pixar is. And in one of his

first and what would be boldest moves, Bob Iger officially brings Pixar into

the Disney family in 2005.

It was a total win-win. Pixar wouldn't become part of Disney animation, but it

would retain its culture.

It can be tinted more. This is a little bit more leaning into that.

all caps and then they'll put a little effect on it too i think it did bring

out the best of both studios in many ways because i think we actually had a

closer relationship we took advantage of each other's kind of brilliance

music has always been a huge crucial part

of the work that we've done it's as though it's tailor-made did you just

come up with it it was a very swift answer it really was

These Pixar people continuously amaze me.

They come up with characters of great human dimension.

The zeitgeist here is amazing. This is a magnificent building.

They have cubbyholes that people goof around in. Build forts, you know.

You go to Pixar headquarters, and it really is a playground.

There's a freedom to it.

Just like no other place.

Most people don't have a workplace like this.

At Pixar, it's all about cultivating the unexpected and that sense of wonder and

playfulness you can sense in the movies.

What are we going to do, Buzz?

Use your head.

And as with any successful film, it's expected that there would be more Toy

Story movies.

We hold ourselves and each other to very high standards when we go back in,

especially for Toy Story.

So it's scary. It's scary when we go back in. And when they do go back in to

make Toy Story 2, there's at least one substantial difference.

Toy Story 1 was kind of a man's world. And so in Toy Story 2, in comes this

female character, Jessie.

Yee-haw!

Who is a lot of things I love.

It's really you!

Enthusiasm, positivity.

We're finally going!

Can you believe it? She knows who she is.

Chiller!

Toy Story 2 was arguably even better than the first film. It took a while for

Pixar's alchemy to change from being quite male-dominated.

to women actually having input.

It's been the most important thing I've done in my whole life and that's what

kids watch.

So to do something like that where

you're contributing to their world was, you know, fun to think about.

Toy Story 2 shattered the record for a Thanksgiving weekend. Every movie is

different. Every movie is alive.

It has its own point of view. We need a staff meeting. Everyone, a staff

meeting. Toy Story 3 is a majestic achievement.

It's one of the best films of that year.

Glad I could catch the train!

Toy Story has dealt with a lot of...

very adult, mature, wise themes about growing up, about saying goodbye to your

kids. So you're Bonnie?

I'm Andy.

The most emotionally resonant scene is when Andy

reconciles with the loss of his favorite toys

as a necessary step.

to his adulthood.

I'm getting teary-eyed.

I saw it with my kids on Father's Day.

Our mission with Andy's complete, Woody.

You realize this is what's happening at Pixar.

It's time for the next kid.

Turning these characters over to a new generation of people who will create

fresh stories from their perspective.

For Toy Story 4, one of the things I had the most fun with was to embrace sort of

girl world of toys a little bit.

Bo Peep is part of a lamp, but she's also kind of now an action toy.

Hold on!

Huh?

Whoa! She kind of portrayed one idea of a girl character, and we really took her

in a different direction.

What's fun about every Toy Story is there's new characters, right? One of my

favorites in 4 was Forky.

because Forky is a toy anybody can make. Forky is so open.

I mean, his arms are literally like this.

He's a really vulnerable, sweet, open character.

I'm a spork. Be quiet. I was made for soup, salad, maybe chili, and then the

trash. And he thought himself as trash.

And it's like, no, you're not trash.

You've got value. You are meant to love and to be loved.

At Pixar, they just have this way of walking a very fine line to take really

intense topics and to just bring life and comedy into it. And the people who

are writing these stories, they're the people who watched the original Toy

Story films as children themselves.

When I saw Toy Story, I think I was 14 years old and thinking, maybe I want to

work there.

Car!

And then we also have these new filmmakers coming in.

Kenna, you know, is the co-director on this film, co-writer of Toy Story 5.

I was born the year Toy Story came out, essentially.

It was amazing to get to work with Andrew because he wrote my childhood,

practically.

half my age and my daughter's age, but was exactly the age I was when I started

on the first Toy Story.

I was surprised by how quickly we clicked.

I think, if anything, Andrew, in so many ways, was Woody, and I was Jessie. And I

felt a little bit of a passing of the badge, kind of like in Toy Story 4.

And Jessie was my favorite character growing up.

When I first met Jessie, I was probably four or five, I think.

Even though you're not moving, you feel like you're alive.

I'd never felt the way I felt before.

Watching Jessie reveal parts of her past, that was when I knew I wanted to

make stories.

And I knew that she loved

me.

And that song that brilliant song. Our hearts were broke for Jessie in that

moment. So this character, Jessie, that I've loved for so long, she goes through

such an amazing story arc.

And I really, really wanted to show in Toy Story 5 that Jessie's not like

Woody. I'm going to let this device know how things are run around here.

Jessie is absolutely a leap before you think kind of person. I love that we get

to shine more of a spotlight on her.

I'm the definition of calm.

And as the world of Toy Story expands, one of the biggest stars on the planet

joins the journey. I'm so lucky that I get to be a part of this.

Andrew Stanton and Kenna Harris really wanted to bring me in to write something

for Jessie.

I knew exactly what I wanted to write for her.

There's an event in the park, and it's a whole night show.

The culmination of the show is the Mark Twain steamboat comes by.

And on it is every classic Disney character, Minnie and Donald and Goofy

and all those princesses. And there also is Woody and Buzz.

When I saw that once, my daughter, she's burst out in tears.

I looked him dead in the face and said, Dad, this is your legacy. It lasts way

beyond us. Look at everything that Walt has built that is still there, that we

still celebrate.

Woody will still be there.

These characters and stories are in all of our theme parks, on our cruise ships.

It's just an instant interaction that makes you feel good and remember these

timeless stories.

It's incredible to kind of start from the very germ of an idea and then look

behind me and see that it not only made it to the screen, but then made it into

an entire whole world.

We really try to collaborate closely with our teams at Imagineering. All the

sculpting, all the painting, the little kids that go in there.

You can see the excitement on their faces.

It's a little depressing, actually, because it should be 11 acres of just

Buzz Land.

That's what I pitched.

Buzzerama.

It could be to infinity and beyond with Buzz.

You know what I mean? You see where we're going with this. You are a sad,

strange little man, and you have my pity.

Farewell. Toy Story is the most successful franchise on Disney+. One of

the most beloved film franchises, maybe in the history of cinema.

So every time the Pixar team has an idea to add another installment to the

franchise, the bar is incredibly high.

Nice poncho.

I said, well, let me write what I think might be interesting just as a fan to

watch it. And the first thing I thought of was Jesse.

Come on, bullseye!

The second thing I thought of was 50 Buzz Lightyears.

And then the third was device.

Bonnie, screen time's over now. Okay.

I love thinking back to that time when they did the first film.

If somebody had said, hey, this is going to go on 31 years.

And the fifth one is going to deal with technology that's going to be a huge

part in everybody's life.

You know, it's so surreal.

Technology is not going away.

But the whole angle of this is that it will never replace true connection.

You won't get away from that. Bonnie still needs us. In five, we've got a

bunch of new characters. And I love, love, love Mr. Smarty Pants, Atlas, and

Snappy. And I love how they fit into the story.

Smarty pants.

That is a weird character. Yeah, it is. Yeah.

You can do it. You can do it. If I can shoot you, you can boo-boo.

You know, Conan O'Brien is a potty training toy. Much like his real

personality.

Atlas is extremely helpful to the gang.

He's an old school GPS.

If we go south five blocks, then east for two, we might be able to head them

off before they reach the highway.

He's unofficially...

the star of the movie, but I don't want to get into that. Bonnie, there's a

package for you.

I'm Greta Lee and I play Lilypad.

Hi, Bonnie.

What should we do today?

Initially, she was potentially a more villainous character, but it became

really clear that she's actually much more human-like.

She's basically just a complicated person.

There's a group of about 70 animators bringing her and all the other

characters to vivid life, led by animation supervisor Brett Parker.

We're looking at size and shape and color and where are the eyes and how

frog-like is she or not.

The drawings start to become more realistic and closer to what the final

design is going to be.

You're not even listening to me. I'm always listening.

See? Now look here.

The directors are, I would say, just as obsessive as the animators.

I'm catching a lot of things that need a little bit more emphasis or accuracy.

They change the story in tiny little ways over a period of years.

When you formerly said, oh, no, now

they want you to say, oh, no.

Andrew's very great at talking about character.

So she'd be the most pro Lily right off the bat. But usually what I was kind of

there for in the room was to kind of like bring us up high.

If you want to have him pulling her around and she's just like, I want to

make sure that we're just laughing our freaking butts off through all this

movie.

Are we getting donated?

Donuts. No, sweetie.

Donated. The storytelling is so rich, it's so layered, and yet

there's a huge sense of nostalgia.

I had no idea when I first started working at Pixar that I was a part of

making films that were going to last for generations.

It's a really special experience that not many filmmakers get to have.

I realize we've been...

Working at Pixar longer than we've been not.

Over half our lives. Over half our lives now.

We were doing these movies for ourselves in our garage, it felt like. Still

remember driving down the freeway and going like, there's a billboard for this

movie we were just working on in our garage.

That's crazy.

You never take it for granted, but it's made all the better because you get to

work with guys like this guy.

And I have to work with him.

Now, as Toy Story 5 comes, a new era for the film's music.

I hope the happiness it brings is quite swift.

It was a night only Hollywood could conjure up. A celebration not only with

screen luminaries, but the new CEO of the Walt Disney Company, Josh DeMauro.

And the celebration didn't stop.

on the red carpet.

Music has always been a huge, crucial part of the work that we've done.

36-year-old Taylor Swift motivated to return to her country roots, recording I

Knew It, I Knew You just for Toy Story 5 with music producer Jack Antonoff.

just blathered out like we have to write this song because for for us to have an

opportunity to write for this film as the first songwriters outside of randy

was really special for both of us by randy

she means of course randy newman composer of the music and lyrics for all

four previous toy story films and they are iconic

Randy's music makes everything feel so big.

It gives you that extra sense of wonder that you're feeling when you're

discovering these worlds.

So what a lot of people may not know is that Randy Newman, who's now 82, has

been writing songs since the 1960s. He's a legendary, brilliant, accomplished,

and acknowledged as great songwriter. He's won two Academy Awards for Pixar

films, seven Grammys, and three Emmys.

He comes with so much.

energy and it is this battery that supercharges i think all the films and

he did such a great job with toy story 5's score and now

inspiring this toy story fan and this film's original song life has ways of

leaving those days along with this adorable video posted to her instagram

featuring a young taylor she said Writing this song felt like a musical

departure and coming home at the same time.

Taylor's certainly one of a kind. She's singular as a performer and a singer,

and she loves the franchise.

We've all seen the tape of when she was five years old, and that love comes

through within her new song.

And just as amazing, the shroud of secrecy that hung over Swift's

involvement.

This was dead, total secret. They literally pulled us into a room. Shut

the door. I thought they were going to say aliens are real.

Greetings. And it was this surprise duet that melted hearts.

Randy Newman.

And enchanted ears at the glittering premiere.

Some folks might be a little bit.

Smarter than I am. No one's smarter than you.

For me, all of the Toy Story films have just these incredible scores, theme

songs. Randy Newman has just honestly so delicately woven

together a signature sound for these films. And I think that's something that

I'm just in awe of. And I'm so grateful to be a part of it.

Of course, it's the spunky toy cowgirl, Jessie, that Taylor feels a special

connection to.

For Jessie's story, I feel like the line, I watched you drive around the

bend for what I thought would be the last time I saw my friend.

What I thought would be the last time I saw my friend.

That hits me really hard because that movie just broke my heart. So I'm really

happy to give her a happy moment.

I hope the happiness it brings is quite swift in its understanding of

how important it is. It's as though it's tailor-made for the

film.

It's an incredible franchise that has unbelievable heart and humor, and the

characters are loved around the world.

I love these films in a way that doesn't feel, like, scary.

It just feels warm and cozy and bright and nice and ambient. That's why we love

it so much. It feels like an old friend.

It's been too long, cowboy.

I think each of the three generations who have been able to experience this

film feel an ownership of Toy Story.

Toy Story 5 feels like the continuation of a great story with friends

who you love and characters who come to life in incredible ways.

Go back to your lives,

citizens. Show's over.