Animated movies that never were

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lucii_nixxerz

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Surely there were at least some animated films out there that just disappeared. Looking around, I've seen mentions of a Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers film, a canceled DTV sequel to The Aristocats and apparently Pixar was going to do something called Newt.

Are there any others of note?
 
I heard about that movie too. It was going to be a crossover between the cast with the Duel Monster and GX series. I think Sartorius was going to challenge some of the duelists in Domino City and there was some idea to bring Atem back to life somehow, which might have been the reason Kazuki Takahashi eventually canceled the movie project. While it didn't happen, they did use some ideas from it for the second season of GX with Sartorius as the main villain and the GX cast heading to Domino City for a few episodes. It still might have been kind of cool to see this movie, especially if it could have given some screentime/significance to the story to some of the GX characters that really didn't get much during the course of the season. Not to mention it would have been pretty cool to see some of the DM characters duel again along side the GX characters.
 
I read in Comics Scene magazine that there was going to be an animated film version of Cats, not Cats Don't Dance, but the Broadway musical, which eventually hit the vapor trails.
 
Yeah, Takahashi-sensei didn't want Atem to come back as it contradicted the original story and he didn't want to betray that. They basically used those ideas that didn't involve Yugi/Atem and made GX season 2. You can read about what was planned at the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki.
 
In a 1990 TV Guide animationfocused issue, it was mentioned that Ralph Bakshi was "readying" a flick called Psychedelic Zoo.
 
As the story goes, there was indeed going to be a 2nd Hey, Arnold! movie which would have dealt with Arnold searching for his missing parents, but the lackluster performance of the 1st film killed the project.
 
Back around 2004 or so, DreamWorks announced a project called Punk Farm, which is based on a series of children's books of, well, a punk rock band consisting of farm animals. They must have canned it for some reason, since no other information was released.
 
*nods* the tv special The Journal was a prequel to that. If I have the information right, Arnold Saves the Neighborhood was to be a tv movie and The Jungle Movie was to be the theatrical release, but things obviously didn't turn out that way.
 
Yeah, I suppose that recent sequel attempt might also end up on this list. It seems unlikely it will be made now as it's been six months or so since we heard any news about it.
 
How come I never heard about this one? Infomation on this one would be really helpful. Speaking of Bakshi. Ralph Bakshi and John K were going to do an animated film called Bobby's Girl. Which was supposed to be an animated film that would be a parody on the teen comedy genre. But that never happened.

If anyone has the DVD of Howard the Duck and listen to the DVD commentary. It mentions that they were talking about doing an animated feature of Howard, but the studio wanted a live-action film for a summer release. Animated howard would be a whole lot better than a live-action one, and it isn't hard to see why :shrug:.

Speaking of comics, The Spirit was supposed to get animated feature Brad Bird had a script for an animated feature of The Spirit in the 80's, but it was canned due to Hollywood believing that it can't work for animation. Rumor had it that the creator of Tank Girl wanted an animated feature, but had a bit of a fallout with the studio that was making it.

Around 1995, Milton Knight did concept artwork from an Warner Bros animated film called "Day of the dead". Ironically, this project was dead. As for that sequel to Roger Rabbit(The Toon Platoon), I remember hearing that Steven didn't like the idea of Roger being in the hard times. Which I find odd since Steven himself has done films in WWII.

Also, before Disney did Aladdin. Walter Lantz had planned on doing an animated feature based on Aladdin, but the lackluster peformances of some animated films(Fantasia, Mr.Bug Goes to Town) canceled the idea of it. Oddly enough Mr Bug's failure also canceled feature plans from Terrytoons and Warner Bros.
 
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