Superteams in Action
The Black Friday looked like the end of the road, but the Pixar team who worked on Toy Story wouldn’t just give up… When Pixar struck a US $26 million deal with Disney to make three movies, Toy Story was the first. Inspired by the ambition to create the world’s first computer-animated film, though, the Pixar team still had to rely on the support and expertise of The Walt Disney Studios. It was on Friday, the 19th of November, 1993 at Walt Disney Co., Burbank, California that they screened the first half of Toy Story for Disney Executives. After viewing it, the consensus across the table was that the film was awful. As the novice film-makers from Pixar worked hard to please the intimidating head of the Walt Disney Studios, Jeff Katzenberg, who wanted to give the film an edge so that it’d appeal to children, teenagers and adults alike, the film had lost its cinematic bearings. Peter Schneider, President of Walt Disney Feature Animation orders a shutdown of the project, threatening