Toy Story 4 (found original script of Pixar animated sequel film; 2013-2017)
The original teaser poster.
Status: Found
Date found: 06 Sep 2019
Found by: Calm-Hawk, and YoshiKiller2S
Toy Story 4 is an animated film produced by Pixar and was created to conclude the Toy Story film franchise. It was released on June 21st, 2019.
Plot
The final version of the film revolves around the toys trying to protect a spork named Forky, which was transformed into a toy by Bonnie, the toy's owner. For a time, the only facts known about the original version were that it would have been a romantic comedy and that it would have had a separate storyline to the previous films.[1]
The plot of the unused script still revolves around Woody and Bo Peep, much as the final film does, but with significant changes to the overall plot, though some characters from the early draft were used in the final film.
The Original Plot
In the original script, Woody and Bo Peep are shown in flashbacks to be separated after Bo Peep is given away by Andy's mother to an expecting couple. Returning to the present time after Toy Story 3, Bonnie has noticed Woody's voicebox has been running down and his overall appearance is wearing. Bonnie's mother places Woody on a shelf in The Hall, alongside other old toys such as Baba, Bonnie's first doll, a stuffed owl named Hal, and a nutcracker.
When Woody overhears a TV auction Bonnie and her mother are watching, he's amazed to see Bo Peep is up for auction and quickly sold to a woman in the same town Bonnie lives in. While the other toys try to convince Woody to go after her, he believes it was better for her to go off and 'be there' for another child rather than stay with him forever.
Bonnie then takes her toys to her cousin Lance's house, a hyperactive child who pulls Woody and Buzz's heads off and puts them onto each other's bodies. While Buzz is relatively alright in Woody's body, Woody begins to have hallucinations based around the Buzz Lightyear franchise and becomes separated from the others, meeting Ducky and Bunny, two characters who show up in the final version as carnival prizes, but here, are discarded toys behind Lance's dresser.
Due to a few mix-ups and the toys attempting to find and fix Woody and Buzz on their own, Woody winds up finding Bo Peep at a pawn shop and is dismayed to learn that the expectant couple threw her out the very next day after receiving her. Since then, she has been passed from one person to the next, never to be kept, and has become bitter toward Woody for having urged her to leave at all.
Woody tries to make amends for what has happened, but only causes more problems as his Lightyear-induced hallucinations cause him to blurt out strange things and act like a 'space cadet.' Eventually, however, Woody and Buzz are able to regain their original bodies, and Woody is able to make things right with Bo just in time after they realize her new owner, Beatrice, lives in a trailer unsuitable for toys as breakable as Bo.
Unlike the final movie, Bo is convinced to come and live at Bonnie's house with Woody and the toys, plus Ducky and Bunny, mail themselves back to Bonnie's home under the guise that Lance "fixed" Bonnie's toys and has returned them. Bonnie is overjoyed by her new lamp, Bo, with the script ending at Bonnie falling asleep with Woody in her arms and Bo Peep on her nightstand.
Availability
In an interview with Annie Potts (the voice of Bo Peep), she stated that after the writers Rashida Jones and Will McCormack left the film's production, Disney threw away the 75% of the script which was finished and restarted production, causing the film to be pushed back to June 2019.[2]
Finding
On August 12th, 2019, user Calm-Hawk found a listing for an early Toy Story 4 script by Ben Karlin on scriptcity.com, a site for buying and selling Hollywood scripts and stageplays, the listing remained unnoticed until September 6th, 2019, when Lost Media Wiki user YoshiKiller2S purchased the draft and uploaded the PDF file later that day.[3]
Similar Incidents
Oddly enough, every previous Toy Story film has had a version that was intentionally scrapped: Toy Story 2 had a different script that was scrapped and reworked in the last nine months of production, a different version of Toy Story 3 was in production by the Circle 7 Animation before the studio was shut down, and the original film had the infamous "Black Friday Reel" version, which nearly got Pixar itself shut down.
See Also
Toy Story
- Toy Story 2 (partially found Bullseye dialogue test footage from Pixar animated sequel film; late 1990s)
- Toy Story & Toy Story 2 (partially found intermissions for 3D double feature re-release of Pixar animated films; 2009)
- Toy Story "Black Friday Reel" (partially found rough cut of Pixar animated film; 1993)
- Toy Story "Jessie" (found Patsy Montana Award acceptance speech animation of Pixar character; 2000)
Advertisements
- The Incredibles (found full version of McDonald's Happy Meal commercial for Pixar animated film; 2004)
- The Incredibles (found online promotional trailers for Pixar animated film; 2004)
- Pixar (partially lost early CGI animated commercials from animation studio; 1989-1998)
Animation (Disney)
- Alice in Wonderland (partially lost original draft of Disney animated film; 1939)
- Aladdin (found Howard Ashman treatment of Disney animated film; 1988)
- American Dog (partially found original version of "Bolt" Disney animated film; 2007-2008)
- The Black Cauldron (partially found deleted scenes of Disney animated film; 1985)
- Chanticleer (partially found production material of cancelled Disney animated film; 1940s-mid 1960s)
- Chicken Little 2 (partially found production material of cancelled sequel to Disney animated comedy film; 2006)
- Disney Circle Seven Animation (partially lost production material of cancelled Pixar sequel films; 2004-2006)
- Dumbo II (partially found production material from cancelled Disney animated sequel film; 2000s)
- Fantasia 2006 (partially lost production material for cancelled Disney animated sequel film; 2002-2004)
- Fraidy Cat (lost production material of cancelled Disney animated film; 2004-2005)
- Frozen (partially found early drafts of Disney animated film; 1937-2012)
- Gigantic (lost production material of cancelled Disney animated film; 2013-2017)
- The Jungle Book (lost Bill Peet version of Disney animated film; 1963-1964)
- Kingdom of the Sun (partially found original version of "The Emperor's New Groove" Disney animated film; late 1990s)
- The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (partially found production material and deleted scenes of Disney animated sequel film; 1995-1998)
- Maleficent (lost production material of cancelled Disney animated film; 2003-2005)
- Music Land (lost Disney animated anthology film; 1955)
- My Peoples (partially found production material of cancelled Disney animated film; late 1990s-early 2000s)
- Phineas and Ferb (lost production material of cancelled theatrical film of Disney Channel animated series; 2010s)
- The Search for Mickey Mouse (lost production material of cancelled Disney animated film; 2002)
- The Seven Dwarfs (partially found production material of cancelled direct-to-video prequel to "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Disney animated film; 2000s)
- Tangled (partially found early drafts of Disney animated film; 2001-2010)
- Tinker Bell (partially found first draft of Disney animated film; 2007)
- Treasure Planet II (lost production material of cancelled Disney animated sequel film; 2002)
- Wild Life (lost production material for cancelled Disney animated film; late 1990s-2000)
- Zootopia (partially found pre-rewrite version of Disney animated film; early 2010s)
Animation (Pixar)
- A Tin Toy Christmas (lost production material of cancelled Pixar animated Christmas TV special; early 1990s)
- Cars 3 (lost deleted scene of Pixar animated sequel film; 2017)
- The Good Dinosaur (lost original version of Pixar animated film; 2011-2013)
- Inside Out (lost original Bing Bong death scene of Pixar animated film; 2015)
- Made in Point Richmond (found miscellaneous content from Pixar DVD; 1986-2000)
- WALL·E (partially found original treatments of Pixar animated film; 1994-2008)
Audio
- Enchanted (lost deleted song from Disney live-action/animated fantasy comedy film; 2007)
- Fantasia (partially lost original audio of Disney animated film; 1940)
- Jack Wagner (partially lost Disney Park background music collection from American actor; 1970s-2001)
- Mars Needs Moms (found Seth Green vocal performance of Disney motion-capture animated film; 2011)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (lost original Vincent Price audio of Disney stop-motion animated film; early 1990s)
- Pinocchio (lost Mel Blanc's "Gideon the Cat" dialogue from Disney animated film; 1940)
Live Action
- 101 Dalmatians (found "Spotted Landmarks" teaser trailer of Disney live-action film; 1995-1996)
- Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (found deleted scenes from Disney live-action film; 1993)
- Sleeping Beauty (partially found live action reference material for Disney animated film; 1959)
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (lost original cut of Disney dark fantasy film; 1982)
- Walt Disney (lost physical Mickey Mouse animation reference footage of animator; late 1930s)
Short Films
- Alice Comedies (partially lost series of Walt Disney animated short films; 1920s)
- Blowin' in the Wind (found Pixar animated short film; 1985)
- Lafflets (lost series of Walt Disney animated short films; 1922-1923)
- Language Arts Through Imagination (found series of Disney educational short films; 1988-1989)
- Mickey and Minnie Mouse (lost unauthorized pornographic animated short film; existence unconfirmed; 1936)
- Mickey's Man Friday (partially found production material of unproduced remake of Disney animated short film; 1939-1941)
- Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (partially lost series of Walt Disney animated short films; 1927-1928)
- Poor Papa (found "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" Walt Disney animated short film; 1927)
- The Princess Academy (lost production material of cancelled Disney animated short film; 2009)
- Short Subject aka "Mickey Mouse in Vietnam" (found unofficial animated short film; 1968)
- Tales from Radiator Springs "To Protect and Serve" (lost episode of "Cars" animated miniseries; 2015)
- Totally Twisted Fairy Tales (partially found Disney animated short series; 1997)
- Uncle Walt (lost unauthorized Disney short film; 1964)
References
- ↑ The article stating the known facts about the film. Retrieved 20 Jul '19
- ↑ The interview explaining what happened to the script. Retrieved 20 Jul '19
- ↑ Google Drive link to the original Toy Story 4 script. Retrieved 06 Sep '19