Summary

• Despite its success and positive reception, Disney has not yet made a sequel to "Big Hero 6", but Pixar's "Incredibles 2" showed that waiting over a decade for a sequel can still lead to massive box office success.
• "Big Hero 6" made $657 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing Disney animated movie without a sequel, but the potential for a franchise is still low after 10 years without any updates.
• The similarities between "Big Hero 6" and "Incredibles 2" suggest that a sequel to "Big Hero 6" could potentially replicate the massive box office increase seen by "Incredibles 2", especially with the continued interest in the characters and the popularity of animated superhero movies.

Disney has yet to make a Big Hero 6 sequel, but Pixar's success with a $1.2 billion animated movie proves that the superhero franchise is still worth continuing. Released in 2014, Big Hero 6 arrived at what seemed to be a perfect time for Walt Disney Animation Studios. The superhero boom in Hollywood created by the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Dark Knight trilogy brought increased interest to comic book adaptations. Since Big Hero 6 is based on a Marvel comic concept, it appeared that Disney would launch an animated superhero movie franchise with the release.

Strangely, Disney has ignored Big Hero 6's franchise potential for the last 10 years. The film received incredibly positive reviews upon its release from critics and general audiences alike, and the warm response paid dividends at the box office. Big Hero 6 made $657 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing Disney animated movie not to receive a sequel. With a decade ing by without any clear update on the possibility of a sequel, hopes for the franchise's continuation are quite low. However, Pixar proved it is not too late for this underrated superhero movie to become a franchise.

The Big Hero 6 comic team was introduced to Marvel Comics in 1988 and created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau.

Incredibles 2's Box Office Almost Doubled The Original Superhero Movie

Disney saw proof of how a Big Hero 6 sequel could be huge six years ago with Pixar's release of Incredibles 2. The second installment in the Incredibles franchise came out 14 years after the original superhero movie. The long wait to see Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, and the rest of the Parr family again could have led to diminished returns at the box office, but the opposite was true for Pixar. Incredibles 2 made $1.2 billion at the box office, which was almost twice as much as the original movie made in 2004.

This performance by Incredibles 2 proved that making audiences wait over a decade to see the sequel to The Incredibles did not deter excitement. After the first movie made $633 million at the box office in 2004, Incredibles 2 sured that total in less than a month. It went on to break box office records, such as becoming the highest-grossing animated movie domestically, the fastest animated movie to make $1 billion, and Pixar's highest-grossing movie of all time. While a larger sum was expected, the final tally of Incredibles 2's box office exceeded expectations.

A Big Hero 6 Sequel Could Repeat Incredibles 2's Massive Box Office Increase

There is a chance that Big Hero 6's sequel could replicate Incredibles 2's box office increase. Comparing the two properties is natural given their superhero movie statuses, but the similarities between them go much further. Big Hero 6 and The Incredibles had almost identical box office performances a decade apart, with only $24 million separating their totals. It's also been a decade since A Big Hero 6 was released, which is exactly the same time frame for when Disney began officially developing The Incredibles' sequel.

The appreciation for the original movie and continued interest in seeing Hiro and Baymax's stories move forward means that a Big Hero 6 could become a bigger box office hit, like Incredibles 2. Audiences have become even more accustomed to animated superhero movies in recent years thanks to the Spider-Verse franchise, and Disney could take a page out of this other Marvel franchise to revamp the animation style. With so much time ing, Disney might be missing out on a major box office hit by not giving Big Hero 6 a sequel.