We're here to bust criminals and break news stories. And we're all out of criminals. Yes, just in case that reference didn't quite make it obvious enough, Sony Pictures Animation's brilliantly bonkers 2021 joint The Mitchells Vs The Machines is officially getting a sequel — wahoo! Per Variety's reporting, The Mitchells Vs The Machines 2 is currently in the works at Sony, with production due to get underway in January 2026 and Netflix already lined up to release the movie.
While the first movie — which saw Katie Mitchell (Abbi Jacobsen) and her dysfunctional family's cross-country road trip disrupted by an evil AI instigated robot apocalypse — was directed and co-written by Michael Rianda and Jeff Rowe however, with Phil Lord and Chris Miller producing, its sequel is set to see a bit of a creative shake-up. The original film's head of story, Guillermo Martinez, is set to make his directorial debut on The Mitchells Vs The Machines 2, helming alongside The Bad Guys 2 co-director JP Sans, while The Great North's Molyneux sisters — Wendy and Lizzie — will be penning round two in the Mitchells' war with the machines. For all the changes however, Lord and Miller will be back on producing duties for this one, guiding the project as Sony Pictures Animation continues to build on a hot run that's most recently seen KPop Demon Hunters become a global phenomenon.
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While we don't know who of the original movie's voice cast will be returning for the sequel just yet, or indeed where the story will go (spoiler: The Mitchells very much beat The Machines first time out), it'll be interesting to see where things pick up. Last time we saw the Mitchells, Katie seemed to have found a girlfriend at the California College of Film, her kid brother Aaron was getting closer to his crush Abby, and robots Eric and Deborahbot had become fully fledged members of the family. How — if at all — any of that will factor into the sequel remains to be seen, but of one thing we can be certain: we will be watching. Okay… of two things we can be certain, because we also want more Dog Cop!