The debut feature from Josh Cooley (a long-time Pixar employee in the company's large art department), Toy Story 4 is set to arrive next summer. Already an Oscar nominee for co-writing Inside Out, Cooley appears more than ready to take over the directorial reigns from John Lasseter and Lee Unkrich, having started at Pixar as an intern! Yes, dreams do eventually come true if you stay with them long enough. 

The teaser trailer has just dropped and you can check it out below.


While Toy Story 4 represents Cooley's feature debut, it's actually not the first Pixar production he has directed, having helmed the short, Riley's First Date, a brief spinoff set in the world of Inside Out, several years prior. It's inspiring that Pixar has now entrusted an in-house rep with their biggest franchise and the only unfortunate thing is that we'll have to wait eight more months to see it.

Woody and Buzz (and the whole gang) will be back in theaters on June 21st, 2019