Why Were These Animated Movies Cancelled??

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Today i took a deep dive into the world of canceled/scrapped animated movies :)
I talked about Newt, Me and My Shadow, Popeye,Gigantic and many more!

I also talked about the scrapped spongebob movie! part 2 when we hit 1 million views?? :0

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edit : part 2 sometime after the summer :)

[jedrfelt]

hey look i made that thumbnail :0 nice

[ajziggy]

The fact that we live in a universe where poppy playtime gets a movie and not Plants vs Zombies says something about the movie industry

[genericnamewcue]

About me and my Shadow -

it was such a good concept. Hearing that it was half-finished means that they could at least put a piece of the film in front of their full length. Then at least some of the work would still be seen.

[christianavendanocross]

You forgot the best part of why Wild Life was cancelled. Roy Disney was watching a screening of the movie and got very offended by it (especially a joke about two gay men entering a sewer and then one of them says "have you ever been down a manhole before?"). He then ended the films production.

[sidneyorin]

Fun Fact: the reason why Me and My Shadow was cancelled was because in 2014 DreamWorks's 2 movies called Mr. Peabody & Sherman and Penguins of Madagascar where both release and flop at the box office.

[EncyclopediaQuirkstonia]

The thing that's sad about this is that sometimes companies have no idea what they're doing and start cancelling movies left and right, and then all of the movies that do get released are all trash.

[ocarinagirlandthestories]

One Disney movie that I wish hadn’t been canceled is “shade makers”. It was going to be a stop-motion film directed by the same guy who directed “Coraline”. I think the plot was about a boy who could manipulate shadows with his fingers or something like that. There is sneak-peak picture that shows him playing with the shadow of a young woman. The movie was like 2-4 years into production but it got canceled because of financial reasons. Really a pity

[irene_thee_rat]

tbh as an Australian, it kinda upsets me that larrikins was canceled because there are barely any movies out there that are set in Australia (i know their rescuers from down under but it was kinda bad ngl) and bilby's are an amazing animal and should get some more appreciation (especially that they are endangered)

[original_demonic]

I think the worst scrapped movie is called The Shadow King. It was a stop motion animation that Disney originally greenlit and was written by Henry Selick. It was about a little boy who had a deformity in his fingers, which caused him to hide them in his jumper. He would then learn to use his hands to make elaborate shadow puppets, and then has to go up against an evil shadow villain. There was fully animated scenes completed (you can find some of them on YouTube) and $50, 000, 000 dollars put into the project before Disney backed out of the deal.

The good thing is that Henry Selick still has not given up on this movie, and still has all the rights to pitch and produce this movie at some point. No one has picked it up yet but fingers crossed we see the full movie someday, even though it’s been almost ten years since it’s cancellation.

Edit: so Henry Sellick has announced that if Wendell and Wild was a success, he will revive the shadow king…we haven’t heard anything on whether he thought it was a success or not, but hopefully we get an update in the next few years :).

[KrispHeree]

I like hearing about scrapped movies. Would be cool if companies had an area where they showed more concept work for the movies :D

[wespapes]

What was even cooler about Me and My Shadow was the blend of 2D/3D animation.

[abhiveerbirdi]

Netflix picking up nimona is about the only good thing theyve done in a while but my god it was so well done

[dinonuggies]

I really liked the idea of gigantic. It sounded fresh and a good take on an old fairytale, and I liked the idea of the giant and the adventurer bonding, especially with the fact the giant would be a young girl, and the adventurer would be or atleast look like an adult. Most movies with a child and an adult bonding, it’s just a normal “mother/father bonding or understanding a kid that they have known their whole life” But the idea of the plot sounding so unique and charming, I just don’t get why they canceled it :, (

[rated-pg]

One scrapped movie that I thought would be fantastic is the original idea for Zootopia. The story was that all predators wore a collar that helps them stay calm or something, and the main character would have been Nick, not Judy. (I can’t remember the idea exactly, I just watched one of the bonus features on the disk) One of the specs for the movie would be a polar and his son. I think at a certain age, the predators will get a collar. So the dad was really sad because his son has to wear the collar. The idea was so good, and I would have definitely watched it.

[naywingalaxyanimatord]

there was going to be a plants vs zombies movie But it got canceled because Disney or dreamworks I think WHY DREAMWORKS THIS MOVIE WILL BE THE BEST There is just so many good movies just get scrap away

[dreamguardian]

Don't forget, Netflix cancelled a lot of good shows too. Like Season 2 of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and the idea of a comic becoming a series called Bone. Not to mention, Legendary Don Bluth planned to make and show a 2D animated movie of Dragon's Lair, but they cancelled it and planned to have it be live action instead, and starring the man who played Deadpool being Dirk. What is this world coming to?

[realsanmer]

Larrikins is probably the one that hurts me the most, the snippets we got look so good

[pnkicecreem]

There should be a company that buys the failed movie projects rights and turn them into really good movies.

[ooglyboogly]

I got so invested in your telling of the movies that I forgot they were scrapped. 😭

[SlyFrye]

I've actually never watched the snippets from that 3D animated Popeye movie but I have heard about it and seen brief clips shown in reviews by other YouTubers that talked about other movies and referenced it and wow I actually am quite shocked that Popeye movie was never released. the animations looked incredible and knowing that it's being attempted to be made again but this time by dreamworks which don't get me wrong I think DreamWorks is incredible, it's just the animation style that Sony has probably would work better with those characters.