Cancelled animated films

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After reading a post in the disney forum in this site, reading that King of elves has been canned.{And yes there is sources of it} I think we should discuss about animated films that have been planned but had later been canned. From what I hear on Don Bluth's website he wanted to do something on Dracula, but couldnt find a story for it.

Anyone know canned animated films that never got made?
 
There are plenty of ideas for animated films that never get off the drawing board or our of the idea stage, so it's more baroque when an animated films is ultimately made, rather than when it isn't.

Anyways, some that I remember off the top of my head:

IIRC, Disney had planned to do a film version of Reynard the Fox, but in time that film evolved into their animated version of Robin Hood.

There was also at one time going to be a animated film version of Cats, which I think would've been handled by Don Bluth, but those plans were scrapped.
 
Don Bluth donated a lot of his art from his movies to my college. Out of the collection was a movie about a whale who lost his mother to whale hunters. It was canceled due to lack of funding.

Disney's Florida studio was developing an animated movie called "A Few Good Ghosts" (or something like that), that was scrapped when the studio shut down.
 
Wasnt there going to be a film that had advertising mascots come to life? (I believe it was going to be called "Food Fight") I think there was some promotional material including screen shots, but it seems to have gone into oblivion.
 
In the late 1990's, a CGI theatrical movie based on the PS1 game Tekken was in development between Sony's US branch and a film company I can no longer remember. There was an article about it in an issue of GamePro magazine from 1998, I believe. Nothing's been said about it since.:sad:

Regarding Disney, they once had the rights to make an animated Where the Wild Things Are film in the early 1980's. The only thing that came out of this project was an animated test film which has turned up online.
 
I remember that Disney was going to make a sequel to Dumbo, which was canned. IIRC, they had a sneak peak on one of the Dumbo DVD's. I also heard of sequels for Snow White and Hercules.

I am not sure if this counts as animated, but I heard of a movie called Spy Jam that was the sequel to Space Jam starring Jackie Chan.
 
I believe Disney was going to do an adaptation of the Chanticleer story during the '40s but was never pleased with the results in pre-production. Bluth revived the idea when left Disney, though why he turned it into Rock-a-Doodle is beyond me.

As for Disney, that Salvador Dali movie they were going to collaborate on was technically canceled at the time, but nephew Roy ended up finishing it decades later. Also, there were the updated versions of Fantasia that Disney wanted to put out during the '40s but that didn't end up happening until Fantasia 2000 (again thanks to Roy).
 
I remember when I was a kid, Disney was going to do a Pinocchio sequel called "Pinocchio II" with a new villian named Balto Tyson and a new character named Claire.

But it only was shown in a theatrical trailer and on a poster. The sequel didn't sell that well.
 
Yes, I've seen that, and that clip was better than the entire Wild Things movie that did come out. Man, was that movie boring!

Disney was going to make a movie out of a series of Uncle-Remus-type books called the Catfish Bend series. I read one of those once. The characters were all animals living in the South in the swamps and the Mississippi River, and the main character was a raccoon.
 
Spy Jam was originally intended as the sequel to Space Jam, it was being developed in the early 2000's. I don't remember whether Jackie Chan was in talks or if he actually signed on to play the main character, but whatever Spy Jam was eventually became Looney Tunes: Back in Action I'm assuming.

Does anyone have any info on Spy Jam? I'm sure it would have been awful.
 
There was a planned Betty Boop feature in the '90s. Some of the scenes apparently made it to the animatics stage (one of which was posted online few years ago by someone who worked on it).
 
Man Spy Jam sounded a lot better than the sequal we have now. I imagine it would have been about Bugs and Daffy being secret agents and working with Jackie chan. That might have been pretty cool. Some movies are better left cancelled, some would have been awesome to have been made. There are some out there I can think that I would have loved to have seen, so sad :(
 
Not quite the same thing, but an interesting story nonetheless: in the late '90s, Disney was working on a movie called Kingdom in the Sun that was almost cancelled. It was your typical epic fairy tale thing - prince, princess, evil witch, the whole deal. But none of the story sessions or advance screenings went well, and it got so bad that the Disney suits said "Turn this thing around in two weeks or we're pulling the plug." The artists decided, what the heck, let's at least try to have some fun with this thing, and they started throwing in some crazier gags and an all-around goofier tone.

The film eventually became The Emperor's New Groove.
 
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