The rock star talks about his cartoon work.
"I remember Jeffrey Katzenberg showing me 'The Lion King' about four weeks before it came out, and it had no 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight,'" John remembered in a conversation with TheWrap. "I was so upset, and I told him so. And he put it back in and it won an Oscar." ...
Sir Elton has had other animated projects that were up and down.
"[Gnomeo and Juliet] died so many times and was resuscitated so many times," said John, who also produced the "Romeo and Juliet"-style story about a pair of garden gnomes from feuding yards. "We were determined to get it made, and in the end it happened."
But there were some near death experiences for G & J. TAG blog reported on one of them back in 2006:
Disney's animated feature "Gnomeo and Juliet," which has been in and out of development for some years, is allegedly out again... The flick, with a garden gnome as a central character, is now cancelled. Insiders say a well-known Pixar executive asked last week at a meeting: "Why are we making this?" After a long silence (SFX: crickets), the exec said "Well, we're not." So, farewell for the second time to "G & J". It was fun while it lasted.
The exec was John Lasseter. After he cut the project loose, it bounced around, finally getting produced in Canada under Kelly Asbury's direction and ultimately grossing $193,967,670 in theaters around the world.
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Just to compare the two Johns, Lasseter and Elton, and their respective films. Last year I watched Gnomeo and Juliet and Cars 2. Surprising I though Gnomeo and Juliet was a better film. Well, not only me, check rotten tomatoes for other critics opinion. It's difficult to tell which one was financially more successful, I believe their costs was widely different. In the end, Disney made good money on both sides.
Katzenberg is also famous for not liking "part of your world" in the little mermaid. I believe at one point it was out of the films as well before leadership fought to get it back in.
But... but... that was her "I Want" song! You can't have a Disney movie without an "I Want" song!
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