Finding Nemo: No one will see this sequel, and it’s probably for the best

By the mid-2000s, Pixar Studios had already proven that they were now among the main characters in the animation scene, but they were not yet standing on their own two feet.

Not yet officially acquired by Disney, they still had to abide by the contract that all of the characters in their first feature films were legally owned by Mickey’s company, which therefore had the right to use them as it pleased.

• It’s one of Pixar’s best movies, but without this little change at the last minute, it could have been a complete failure.

Circle 7 studio era

Toy Story, Monsters & Co. And especially after the significant commercial success of Finding Nemo, Disney executives were determined to offer new adventures to the characters of these films.

Despite disagreements between Michael Eisner (the CEO of the Walt Disney Company at the time) and Steve Jobs (the CEO of Pixar), a small studio was formed at the time with the goal of building this sequel. At Circle 7 Animation, several feature films began to be developed outside of the Pixar artists, much to the latter’s dismay.

Toy Story 3, in which Buzz Lightyear is sent back to his factory in Taiwan for repairs, a new Monsters & Co, in which Bob and Sally visit Little Owl for his birthday, and thus… Finding Nemo 2 .

Finding Nemo 2 What was it about?

As can be seen from the consultation The script of the film (Signed by Laurie Craig, available online and recently broadcast Collider), in this new adventure, it was Marin’s turn to catch him and therefore cross the ocean to save Nemo.

To do this, the little clownfish is accompanied by the inscrutable Dory (who has completely regained his memory) and Remy, who is the biggest news of the film because he is just Nemo’s brother, has been lost for many years (probably since the tragic barracuda attack at the beginning of the first film).

As for Marin, overwhelmed by his role as a father and feeling unable to properly raise his two sons, he ends up at a water amusement park where he meets a dolphin (Percy) and a polar bear (White).

With the official takeover of Pixar by Disney in 2006, the Circle 7 studio was finally closed and all of its projects were abandoned. Even if it’s obviously impossible to know what this sequel to Finding Nemo would have yielded, we can imagine that without the inspiration of its original creators and a somewhat mechanical script that began essentially for commercial reasons, the result wouldn’t have been very interesting. .

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