@northern haste  
Well, I meant is what they could have done instead of either used the sequel concepts for a TV special (even though Mike Vogel debunked that claim) or rebooting MLP for the fifth time.
 
I mean, the 2017 movie made four times its budget, which in anyone else’s eyes it means box office success. And movies that were box office hits obviously gets sequels. Sadly, MLP G4 as a feature film isn’t one of them.

@Hollowfox Jaeger  
Yep, something like that.

@Hollowfox Jaeger  

 
To my knowledge it was never said that Tara Strong will not be in G5. However, they will likely have her voice another pony other then G5 Twilight since they aren’t supposed to be the same as their G4 counterparts.

@Hollowfox Jaeger  
You said what could have been critically redeeming like we knew exactly what it was going to be. it could have been anything

@Background Pony #D5EF  
Sounds like a pilot film like the Jimmy Neutron film.

@Hollowfox Jaeger  
Actually, the 2021 movie is a prequel to a 2D series that will start airing in 2022.

@northern haste  
The first FiM movie got a 48% on Rotten Tomatoes. It means a rotten rating because critics don’t understand source material fidelity when it comes to this film.
 
I mean, was that movie live-action? No. If it does it would be inaccurate to the source material.  
Is it based on Friendship Is Magic? Yes.  
Did the voice actors come back to join the celebrities? Yes.
 
That’s why I wanted a critically-redeeming sequel so critics can understand that it’s faithful and respectful to the show as opposed to other films like all Bayformers films, Battleship and Jem 2015 and also understand that MLP is a beloved property no matter how crazy the fanbase is or what the target demographic is, and Hasbro threw that away by disguising a “hard reboot” film for 2021 as a “standalone” movie.
 
>we actually knew what it was going to be
 
Uh, What do you mean, Haste?

@Hollowfox Jaeger  
The critically-redeeming part got me confused like we actually knew what it was going to be

@northern haste  
No?
 
But they could have started developing it since Equestria Daily says “Second My Little Pony Movie is on the Way” or they saw that the movie made four times its budget despite its underperformance due to marketing and the fandom being small at the time. Even if Hasbro cancelled FiM with the announcement that Season 9 is the last one.
 
I mean, A Phineas and Ferb movie is going to be made for Disney+ despite the show being finished for crying out loud! Why Can’t FiM get more movies?

@Hollowfox Jaeger  
Did they even start writing for the sequel?

@Dashie41 YT  
Idk, it’s a niche franchise and last time they made a movie, they lost their chance of resurgence in popularity and made G4 still lesser-known since around 2014-2015. And not even the 64 million dollars gross out of a 6.5 million budget would salvage it from mainstream obscurity or have another chance at redemption. The 2017 movie deserves better and critics should understand that it’s faithful to the source material by NOT being a live-action movie like Bayformers, Smurfs and Alvin and the Chipmunks.
 
This movie is going to be a hard reboot (because Hasbro canceled what could have been a critically-redeeming sequel last year) and people won’t know this new iteration as much as Friendship Is Magic and its spinoff (i.e. Equestria Girls and Pony Life) unless the film does it well.
 
What I am afraid is what people will think of this new iteration since people started disliking reboots of past properties such as Thundercats Roar, Rise of the TMNT, Bakugan: Battle Planet, Littlest Pet Shop: A World of Our Own and even Mega Man: Fully Charged and started missing their precious predecessors (such as TMNT 2012, LPS 2012, Thundercats 2011 (that deserves better), Bakugan: Battle Brawlers and the classic Megaman style). And what worries me more is that Tara Strong will no longer be in future MLP media and I don’t know how to cope with that since the show ended, the MLP movie sequel is cancelled and Pony Life is not getting any praise from FiM fans.
 
However if it ends up as good as FiM and other good reboots (like DuckTales 2017 and DC SuperHero Girls 2019) with the storytelling and took risks and doesn’t get into “gender identity politics” hot water like Birds of Prey and Captain Marvel, there’s a chance it might end up being more successful than the FiM movie.

@northern haste  
Long time

How long until we get some actual information about this movie?

@Beau Skunky  
That would be awesome

They need Jim Carrey to be the villain.

@Dashie41 YT  
Dare to dream.

Let’s see if the movie does well like Sonic The Hedgehog did