Netflix does not give one of lime without having prepared one of sand. If not so long ago that he decided to recover ‘Nimona’, a film that Disney rejected and that was close to being finished, today we know that has rejected, in the middle of its shooting, the new animated film by Gore Verbinski, ‘Cattywumpus’. Once again, streaming services paying your frustrations with animation.
From Oscar to none
To make the ugly like this to Gore Verbinski you have to be reckless or be very sure of what you are doing. Recall that Verbinski is the director of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and won the Oscar for best animated film with ‘Rango’. Netflix has given merciless scissors to his new movie about space catsbut this does not mean the end.
And it is that, just as Warner has done with the productions that it canceled outright, Netflix has given Verbinski permission to find another production company to cover the costs that entail finishing the film, which has been in production for two years. The weird thing is that on Netflix doesn’t seem like a move against animation per se: Only this year they will premiere ‘Pinocchio’ (by Guillermo del Toro) and ‘Wendell & Wild’, among others.
With the layoffs of Netflix in the last year to try to cover its bad numbers, the situation arises that the people who bought the rights to ‘Cattywumpus’ are not the same people who are now making the decisions. A few months ago they left Melissa Cobb, who created the fame of the company’s animation department, aside, and it shows. In the end, the goings-on of the management departments we suffer the spectators, that we do not know if we will be able to enjoy the new Verbinski somewhere one day. It only remains to cross your fingers and believe in space crawlers.