the policy of Disney spending cuts is also affecting Pixar, as the studio has had to lay off 75 workers. Among them there are two that stand out with their own light, the first is that of Angus McLanedirector of ‘Lightyear’, and the second is that of Galyn Susmanthe production company that avoided an unprecedented disaster at the time with ‘Toy Story 2’.
The story is well known that a Pixar worker accidentally deleted practically all of what had been done at that time from the sequel to ‘Toy Story 2’. Luckily, Susman was teleworking at the time, which allowed him to recover All the files. Yes indeed, this minor miracle ultimately didn’t amount to much, as the studio decided the movie wasn’t up to scratch and they rewrote it entirely. Some scenes rescued by Susman were discussed, but almost everything became different.
For his part, MacLane’s firing is probably motivated by the huge box office flop suffered by ‘Lightyear’. It has been of no use to him to be working at Pixar since 1997 or co-directed ‘Finding Dory’, that was a great success, to save his position within the studio.
Disney’s savings policy
It is true that 75 casualties within a workforce of 1,200 workers does not sound like that much, but it remains to be seen whether it will be the only round of layoffs, since at Disney they want to do without 7,000 workers to save 5,500 million dollars. What would not surprise me at all is that Pixar now focus even more on sequels to their greatest hits to avoid greater evils.
The last time Pixar made multiple layoffs at once was in 2013.when the postponement of ‘Arlo’s trip’ and the release of the film from Bob Peterson as director he was accompanied by 30 layoffs within the studio.
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