Wreck-It Ralph 2 Announced “Ralph Breaks the Internet”

Announced on Twitter today, Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2, with its strangely backward title, is official. Ralph escapes the arcade and apparently, it's off to the internet.

David Hollis, head of distribution for the Walt Disney Studios, revealed the title and announced that Jane Lynch, Jack McBrayer, John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman will all be returning for the movie. The team behind the original movie is also back, who won an Oscar last month for Zootopia. This includes directors Rich Moore and Phil Johnston.

“To take these characters we love and have them enter the enormous world of the internet has given us so much to explore,” said Moore. “Our production team has been hard at work designing a world that takes something we all think we know – the internet – but shows it in a whole new, imaginative way.”

Johnston also added, "We’re so excited to be working with Ralph, Vanellope von Schweetz, Fix-It Felix and Sergeant Calhoun again, and we have new characters we look forward to unveiling. At the center of this film, as in the first one, is the relationship between Ralph and Vanellope, two once-outcasts, who in each other, found true friendship.”

When Wreck-it Ralph first released in November 2012, it was the highest opening weekend ever for a Walt Disney Animation Studios film at the time of release. It was also nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for best animated feature, winning the PGA Award for outstanding producer of an animated theatrical motion picture.

Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 opens in U.S. theaters on March 9, 2018.