John Lasseter, then chief creative officer at Pixar and director and original story writer on the first two instalments, was originally set to direct the fourth outing. But in spring 2016, finding himself wholly occupied with his dual role running Pixar and Walt Disney's animation studio, Lasseter stepped away and co-director Josh Cooley took sole control. It was 18 months later that Lasseter announced he was taking a sabbatical from Pixar (he left the company altogether in 2018) because of unspecified "missteps" that had made some employees feel "disrespected or uncomfortable". Around the same time, according to reports, original Toy Story 4 writers Rashida Jones and Will McCormack left the project, citing "creative and, more importantly, philosophical differences". Looking back, Cooley admits that for the Toy Story 4 team, Lasseter's departure from Pixar was "a big thing. I'm not going to say it was easy, because it wasn't. It was a shock. I had to talk to my crew and say, 'We're going to keep going forward and making this film the best we can.'" The departure of Jones and McCormack and the subsequent overhaul of the script was much easier to cope with, the filmmakers insist. "That's like a Tuesday for us," Cooley jokes. Pixar projects, adds Nielsen, "have different needs, creatively, along the way so it's not uncommon for us to have a writer for a season and then to change and move on to another writer for the next season".
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