#Jeffrey Katzenberg

[cheer-deforest-kelley]

Some wonderful behind the scenes shots from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

How does one not love the cast in blue jeans (De’s legs go on forever) or Leonard in a robe.

Original pictures are from @citizenkampbell and @westworldparty19

[themousefromfantasyland]

My biggest grievance is Jeffrey Katzenberg involvement with Shrek.

Shrek as a franchise is meant to poke fun at the silliness and hypocrisies of the Walt Disney Company. Nothing wrong with that.

But I think the movie would bring the point closer to home if one of the producers wasn't literally directly responsible for several of the worst Disney actions.

[astridhoff03]

DreamWorks Animation SKG (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen)

I am recently really worried about DreamWorks Animation because of their many lay offs and the fact that they will do Animation not in House anymore. It’s just sad to see this fantastic company suffer. I honestly think it wasn’t the best idea to make the guy, who is responsible for the minions the head of a studio that isn’t like Illumination at all. Its like Universal wants DreamWorks to be Illumination, but this wouldn’t work. I am also very worried about the upcoming httyd remake, which I personally don’t need or think it’s necessary, but I take it any day over a fourth movie. I know DreamWorks is the King of Sequels and maybe also the King of Trilogies, because their Trilogies come better together as full stories as some from other studios. I just instantly hope that they don’t go the way Disney goes with its endless remakes or Illumination with its fun but not really heartwarming movies. DreamWorks has their own animation style and they made some of the greatest animated movies ever. I really hope they recover from this Dark Age and get back their greatness and glory. I hope this company will continue to exists even if I’ve been an old woman at these days. They really deserve to get their amazingly well trained animators back. I mean what is DreamWorks without its many talented animators, who do hard work to make the movies reality that we love today.

[hedgypipes]

I think It’s Time For The Animation Guild to start early. Also David Zaslav Sucks and it’s funny how that last tweet came from the Same CEO who told his Workers to listen to a song from “Trolls” and telling them that they were losing their job when Quibi became a failure of a streaming service.

[lewishamiltonstuff]

Pierre Gasly was right when he said that Lewis is the most connected guy.

[alanshee-keeper-of-realms]

What do you think of Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner?

Oh these two don't get me started on the drama they caused during the '80s, 90s amd 2000s at Disney, they are both pieces of work that have more cons than Pro

At least with Walt Disney or any of them they have shit that balances out the bad these guys they were just flat out me me me,

You know why DreamWorks was founded? because Jeffrey over here kept bragging about a job that he was going to have after the fact his so-called friend who had had the job before died in a helicopter crash!

It wasn't even a week later this asshole was walking around bragging about how he was going to get the job when they told him no and in fact fired him that's when he went and founded DreamWorks,

He also told animators to edit out scenes in the '80s when everything was still hand drawn, you couldn't edit out scenes. He was so obstinate on this that they had to get Eisner to stop him from destroying the film because he wouldn't listen to the animators behind it -.-

Also, blame Jeffrey for the reason why we do not have 2D animation in Disney anymore he tossed it out the window, and I quote because there is no money in it.

Jeffrey is definitely on my shit list I want to respect him but how can I respect him when he won't even listen to animators when they try to tell him you can't do certain things.

Eisner was a train wreck of a CEO did you know crime at the parks literally spiked, a kid was shot and killed in the Disneyland parking lot because of gang activity because of all the clubs he had added to the parks for teenagers and yes adults if you went to what they called Pleasure Island yes they had a land called Pleasure Island, it even had a lingerie store themed after Jessica Rabbit and Jessica Rabbit was actually the one sitting on the archway to the island,

I will say the majority of teens have good memories about one specific club called Videoopolis. However, the rest of the clubs were known for being well, not so good,

Team members of gangs would go to these clubs and hire kids out of them this went on for years,

He renamed the Zippity Doo Dah ride to Splash Mountain not because they were retheming it to actually fit the H2O splash mermaid movie. No, he just renamed it because he wanted to,

If anybody got a swift kick in the ass from Mickey Mouse, it would be Eisner. He about bankrupted the company a few times because originally no Hong Kong and Paris were absolutely bleeding money when they were initially built because they went so badly over budget because of Eisner!

He was a stubborn hard ass of a man who if anybody told him no he would throw a temper tantrum and figure out how to make it work anyways,

But the worst of the worst I will bring his name in is still chapek somehow chapek has beaten Eisner for being the worst CEO so Eisner isn't my most I do not like you on my list of Disney staffers but he's damn near close.

[whynot-movies]

The Road to El Dorado (2000)

[punster-2319]

Reading through Don Bluth’s autobiography and got to that part where Bluth talks about that confrontation he had with Roy E. Disney at the pub…I never thought Katzenberg’s pettiness could be rivaled, but Roy came close (then again, Eisner could probably rival both of them).

[homesickpiranha]

The Road to El Dorado (2000)

"You know that little voice people have that tells them to quit when they're ahead? You don't have one!"

[closetofcuriosities]

Dive! Steven Spielberg's defunct nautical-themed restaurant

[cherryblossomshadow]

The Shield put FX on the map. Mad Men put AMC on the map. House of Cards put Netflix on the map. Writers did that. Not some CEO.

Know what you get when you put CEOs in creative lanes? You get Quibi.

- Sal Calleros, FX's Snowfall writer-producer

[otnesse]

Since I mentioned a few times the Jim Cox draft of Beauty and the Beast and how Jeffrey Katzenberg screwed him over back then, I'll provide the source for it. It's in Tale as Old as Time: The Art and Making of Beauty and the Beast. Pages 28-31 to be precise.

"The process that actually led to the making of the film began when Jim Cox submitted two treatments in early 1988. Cox had written the screenplay for Oliver & Company and was already writing The Rescuers Down Under. He recalls, "They asked me what I wanted to do beyond Rescuers; they had five ideas they were interested in, and at the bottom of the list was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I said, ' "Beauty and the Beast!" ' " "Jim shifted the story to rural France in the fifteenth century. He kept the two older sisters from the original story and gave Beauty three feckless suitors. Her father became a befuddled but loveable inventor. At the Beast's castle, the father encounters an array of enchanted but silent objects, including dishes and utensils that serve him dinner, and a shy tabletop candelabra. "I loved the [Jean] Cocteau film, the simple magic of the arms sticking out of the walls holding the candelabras," says Jim. "The candelabra character was kind of an homage to Cocteau's film. The central idea for the animation magic was that the staff of the castle had been turned into the objects of the castle---I loved the idea of anthropomor-phizing objects. I also thought that if her father were an inventor, there would be opportunities for funny interactions between him and the objects, because he would think of them as inventions, like the things he made." "Overwhelmed by the beauty of their unexpected guest, the enchanted objects stumble over themselves in their efforts to please her. On her first night, The fantastic images of the day coalesce into a musical dream. All the mute items of the household have voices and sing to her. Jim also added a scene of Beast rescuing Beauty from a timber wolf. "Beauty's would-be suitors and her conniving sisters make their way to attack the castle to attack Beast and steal his treasure. At the moment Beauty's kiss transforms the Beast into a prince, the suitors and sisters turn into animals that reflect their faults: a peacock for vanity, a pig for greed, and so on. "The executives really liked the second treatment," says Jim. "I was down in Mexico with my wife [Penny Finkelman Cox], who was producing Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and somehow Michael Eisner reached me at the house we'd rented---this was before cell phones. He told me how much he loved the sotry, and they were going to make it, and congratulations." "Cox expanded his treatment into a script---and was rejected: "Jeffrey Katzenberg called me and said, 'Jim, you've done a great job, but no one bats a thousand. We're going to go in a different direction with it.' I don't know what they didn't like about the script."

So, long story short, Jim Cox tried to write an initial treatment of Beauty and the Beast, which was of high enough quality that Michael Eisner, back when he actually CARED about keeping Disney wholesome, had to track Jim Cox and his wife down to congratulate him (likely sinking quite a bit of money into communications revenue in the process ESPECIALLY considering this was before cell phones), and then Katzenberg up and out rejects the script on a whim, doesn't even bother to give Cox an actual reason for why it was rejected. This apparently all happened in 1988, about a year or so before The Little Mermaid hit theaters. The book later indicates Katzenberg was already considering having Linda Woolverton write the movie, but first tried to do Richard Williams, or if not him, certainly Richard Purdum, only to then reject them for the "too dark, too dramatic" take on Beauty and the Beast (bit ironic considering his later role in a certain Pixar draft, but that's a topic for another day). Then after a research trip to France as well as getting the guys behind Cranium Command, we basically got the film we got.

Honestly, this is just the first time Katzenberg screwed Cox over (he'd more infamously do that with the whole Ferngully/Aladdin blowup that Robin Williams got caught in the middle of and led to Williams' feud with Disney until they sincerely apologized). And quite frankly, I'd argue the development suffered as a result, especially when the film we DID get if you ask me was so radically different from the actual fairy tale that it was essentially an in-name movie, and when you think about it, actually was pretty similar to Shrek regarding a more mean-spirited take on Belle's predecessors (Linda Woolverton made no secret to how she wanted to supplant Ariel and had little respect for Ariel's predecessors), that plus most fairy tale tropes. Heck, Belle didn't so much as even get foils, at least, not foils that were DIRECTLY relevant to true beauty coming from within (the closest she had to foils, the closest analogue to her sisters in fact, were those triplets who crushed on Gaston, and quite frankly, they were too nice, and they don't even become villains in the second half unlike Gaston).

Assuming I can find a good scanner, I'll even make sure to post the scanned pages for you to see.

EDIT: Correction, Katzenberg actually screwed Cox over THREE times (Katzenberg was responsible for Rescuers' Down Under bombing in theaters, purely because Home Alone had an initial edge).

EDIT 2: Something else to consider, this also might have been the actual start of the Eisner-Katzenberg feud. Think about it, do you REALLY think Eisner would actually WANT Katzenberg to basically toss out Cox's treatment after he very likely sunk resources just to contact him personally at Mexico (let's not forget, cell phones didn't exist yet, so he had to go through a LOT of effort just to track Cox down, likely pay a really hefty phone bill and expenses to locate him) and request for him to do a full-fledged screenplay? That would mean Katzenberg most likely rejected the screenplay behind Eisner's back. No wonder Eisner kept Katzenberg out of the loop regarding that new animation studio a little while afterward.

[weirdgirl92]

Whether you love or hate FernGully, I think we can all agree that Jeffrey Katzenberg was NOT the right person to run Disney.

[disbear]

[derekfoxwit]

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