'Toy Story 4' release date news: 'Toy Story 4' swaps release dates with 'Incredibles 2,' coming June 2019

"Toy Story 4" and "The Incredibles 2" have swapped release dates.

Disney recently announced that the long-awaited fourth installment to the beloved "Toy Story" franchise will arrive a full year later than expected as it will be releasing the highly anticipated "The Incredibles" sequel first.

"Toy Story 4" will hit theaters on June 21, 2019, while "The Incredibles 2" will arrive on June 15, 2018. The Hollywood Reporter said that the release dates for the two high-profile Disney Pixar sequels were switched due to an accelerated production schedule for the second "The Incredibles" film.

"Toy Story 4," which was initially scheduled to come out earlier, will arrive almost an entire decade after "Toy Story 3."

According to Entertainment Weekly, not much is known about the fourth "Toy Story" film's plot apart from that it is a love story between Woody (Tom Hanks) and Bo Peep (Annie Potts) and that it will be based on the marriage of Pixar boss John Lasseter. There will reportedly be new additions to the cast, including "Medium" alum Patricia Arquette. The screenplay is being written by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack.

"The Incredibles 2," which comes 14 years after the acclaimed original film was released, will be directed by Brad Bird, who also helmed, wrote, and voiced a character in "The Incredibles." Bird has revealed that that the sequel will focus more on the Parr family dynamic than on the superhero aspect of the film.

"For me, the interesting thing was never the superhero part of it," Bird told Cinema Blend last year. "It was more the family dynamic, and how do superhero things play into that. So the movie is a step further in that direction," he added.

Pixar has been remarkably cautious about coming out with sequels. Disney announced "The Incredibles 2" in March 2014, nearly an entire decade after the original film came out. In an interview with EW earlier this year, Pixar president Jim Morris said, "Most studios jump on doing a sequel as soon as they have a successful film, but our business model is a filmmaker model, and we don't make a sequel unless the director of the original film has an idea that they like and are willing to go forward on."

Apart from "Toy Story 4" and "The Incredibles 2," there are four other Disney Pixar films lined up for release until 2020. These are "Cars 3," "Coco," and two as yet untitled Pixar projects. Morris has confirmed that both untitled projects are original films.