How One Untold Part Of Jessie’s Backstory Inspired 'Toy Story 5' Into Existence

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If you saw Toy Story 5 on the 2026 movie schedule and wondered why we’re getting yet another Toy Story sequel, there’s actually a good reason for it. Jessie the Cowgirl has been a beloved character in the franchise ever since she was introduced in Toy Story 2, but she’s never quite been center stage before. Writer/director Andrew Stanton wanted to change all that when writing the upcoming Pixar movie, and he told us why.  I had the chance to see half of Toy Story 5 on behalf of CinemaBlend and then sit down with Stanton and some of the movie’s other key filmmakers. What struck me the most about what I’ve seen from the movie so far is how instrumental Jessie is to the storyline. During the film, she even finds herself back in her previous bedroom from before she met Woody and co.

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00:00when was the like moment you guys realized that you wanted to bring jesse back into her childhood

00:05kind of her own childhood room yeah from the get-go from the get-go i i i knew that

00:11uh there

00:12was i well i hope i'm not giving too much away because it's right at the top of the movie

00:16but

00:16i knew that nobody's ever seen the back of her chaps and nobody knew that she was a pull string

00:22doll but she always was if you go back that she was always designed just like woody and so just

00:27and knowing her backstory from toy story 2 and knowing that she was running bunny's room and

00:31those two elements i i just as a writer i was like oh there's so much to be had here

00:37that we can

00:37dig into yeah and then we got to kind of specify it along the way it was interesting to think

00:43about

00:43like yeah we know that we are again like ruminating on the emily of it all but then being able

00:49to bring

00:49in like well what if there was this person who kind of took over the place that you started at

00:54and the place that you have all these memories with someone else and that's kind of how blaze came

00:59into being

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