you cant fuck the fraught and troubled production history of toy story 1. in the late eighties, pixa
you cant fuck the fraught and troubled production history of toy story 1. in the late eighties, pixar (originally a tech company who produced animated shorts to showcase the capabilities of their software) were contracted by disney to produce the first fully computer generated feature film, an idea that director/evil bastard john lasseter had been fired for, by disney, a few years earlier. the developing story outline was constantly revised by the then-head of disney’s film department jeffrey katzenberg, who pushed for the script to contain more adult jokes and “edge”. although a large amount of material from this period had been completed, production was almost shut down in 1993 after executives viewed a story reel in which woody, originally a despotic ventriloquist dummy, throws buzz out the window and states that “it’s a toy-eat-toy world”. this screening was later called The Black Friday Incident. a new script was hastily developed within two weeks, with writer andrew stanton “retreating into a small, dark windowless office, emerging periodically with new script pages”. katzenberg left the disney company in 1994 to co-found dreamworks animation. -- source link