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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 23: Why it took Disney 18 years to produce its animated “Peter Pan”

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🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by discussing Pixar veteran Darla Anderson’s decision to sign a multi-year deal with Netflix. They then discuss why it took Disney Studios nearly two decades to produce a full length animated version of J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If a small flock of cartoon bluebirds didn't help you get dressed this morning,

0:05.0

that just means you haven't yet listened to.

0:08.0

Fine-tuning with Jim Hill and Drew Taylor.

0:12.0

No, the black dress. Jim Hill and Drew Taylor.

0:16.0

No, the black dress slacks please.

0:19.0

Thank you.

0:22.0

And now, Jim Hill.

0:28.0

Welcome to fine tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary. I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill.

0:31.0

You know on previous shows we had wondered what was going to happen

0:35.9

where Darla Anderson was going to end up.

0:38.4

Yeah, so last March right after Coco won the best animated feature, Oscar, literally days later,

0:46.2

she announced that she was leaving Pixar, which you and I both found bizarre for a number of reasons. Number one is her wife still works at Pixar as a producer and is producing

0:57.3

the next feature onward after Toy Story 4 so that was kind of weird but you know also she just won an

1:04.4

Oscar so we finally got our answer literally as we started talking about the

1:10.3

show today got a news alert that she is headed to Netflix to oversee

1:15.8

animated features and series. That's huge news. Huge. Not all that surprising. I know you and I had talked about that, but what's kind of interesting is that when we were sort of moving

1:29.4

the pieces around the board, we were assuming that Darla, given all the years she worked with John, she was going to go sort of clear the path for John at a place like in Netflix. So for me it's fascinating to now have John basically set up shop over at

1:44.8

Sky Dance and to now have Darla at Netflix and just last week we're talking

1:49.7

about Lee-Ungridge and again taking time off to spend time with this family but it's going to be

1:54.9

Gonna be interesting to see where he lands after his year or so sabbatical

2:00.1

He's gonna go back to work at some point So where he goes will be anybody's guess. I mean all the streaming platforms are really gearing up for animation that seems like so I don't know where he'll be.

2:11.0

Since we just touch on Pittsburgh, it's worth noting that today Tom Hanks tweeted, or actually it was

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