Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Ep 432: When Tim Allen almost played the Cat in the Hat

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🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Drew Taylor starts off by revealing what he saw at the preview event for this year’s D23 Expo. Then Jim Hill shares a history of Genndy Tartakovsky’s never-completed “Popeye” Over the course of this episode, listeners will learn about: Which D23 Expo events are going to presented this time around over at the Honda Center, rather than inside of the Anaheim Convention Center Why did Robin Williams want Walt Disney Productions to fly some Imagineers over to Malta back in 1980 Which sequel did Sony Pictures Animation officials ask Genndy Tartakovsky to work on out ahead of proceeding with his feature-length animated version of “Popeye” Why did Bluto get replaced with Brutus back in the early 1960s How did the cancellation of the “Sprockets” movie factor into Mike Myers agreeing to play the title role in Universal Pictures’ “The Cat in the Hat” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to fine tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.
0:06.0	I'm Entertainment Writer Jim Hill and Mr. Taylor, whose writings on the industry you can regularly read over on the ramp and whose musings on the Mission Impossible movies
0:15.2	you can listen to on Light the Fuse, the official Mission Impossible podcast.
0:20.8	He and I are recording this week's show on Wednesday, March 20, 2024.
0:27.0	Spring officially began yesterday, Drew, the 19th, evidently because
0:32.0	2024 is a leap year, the Vernal Equinox happened one day earlier.
0:38.2	So how did you spend the first day of Spring Drew? I spent it like I spend every other day, Jim,
0:46.2	working until I have to close my eyes
0:49.5	and then I go to sleep and I wake up early
0:51.6	to record this beautiful podcast so that's how I did it.
0:55.6	Well okay but but we were going to record on Tuesday but but you know you had other things to do you you had to make a trip
1:06.2	over to Glendale right yeah to my old stomping ground well across the street of my old
1:10.3	stomping grounds we were in the air terminal.
1:12.8	Which, have you ever been in there since they've remodeled it, Jim?
1:16.1	No, and I've wanted to.
1:18.4	They, you know, that the old Glendale Airport building.
1:22.0	I hear it's lovely. Yeah, it was really neat. I've been in there a couple of times. That's where the D23 offices are, so they had a whole song and dance about that.
1:35.0	Oh wow.
1:36.0	And yeah it was just kind of getting a low down on what D23 is this year, how it operates.
1:44.1	Yeah, it's gonna be, it's gonna be huge this year.
1:48.6	Yeah, and all right, and just to sort of lay out the basics here. Okay, so the
1:53.4	Expo this year is going to be held August 9th, 10th, and 11th and
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