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Newt: A Tale of the Only Cancelled PIXAR Film

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Originally slated for the summer of 2012, Pixar’s Newt was to follow the last two blue-footed newts in the world. Here is a statement regarding the movie from a 2008 Disney press release…

What happens when the last remaining male and female blue-footed newts on the planet are forced together by science to save the species, and they can’t stand each other? That’s the problem facing Newt and Brooke, heroes of “Newt,” the Pixar film by seven-time Academy Award® winner for sound Gary Rydstrom, and director of Pixar’s Oscar-nominated short, “Lifted”. Newt and Brooke embark on a perilous, unpredictable adventure and discover that finding a mate never goes as planned, even when you only have one choice. Love, it turns out, is not a science.

Newt would have been Pixar’s fourteenth feature-film and was going to be directed by Gary Rydstrom, who worked on previous Pixar films such as Finding Nemo and Toy Story. According to Rydstrom, Newt was to be a “good old-fashioned romantic comedy”. As mentioned above, the film was slated to debut in the summer of 2012 after having been pushed back a year (the first predicted release was in summer 2011).

Soon after, being pushed back to 2012, it was announced that Brave would take the place of Newt in the summer 2012 spot and no further information was provided regarding Newt or its new release. These circumstances gave rise to speculation that Newt had been cancelled. A source from within the studio commented that “We [Pixar] have taken Newt off of our development schedule to allow our creative teams to focus on these upcoming projects…” John Lasseter, however, did not officially comment on the cancellation of the project. 

Sorry to break the news, but you did not report the person behind that blog. Instead, you reported me. And I am still suffering the consequences.

I did not run that blog. Yes, they used my image. All my pictures from Facebook and Instagram, my statuses, even the captions. And then interspersed them with animal abuse images, fantasies about beastiality, other fucking disgusting sentiments.

You people found my Facebook, where I listed my wildlife rescue group. You didn’t think, for a moment, that it was odd that none of these abuse fantasies appeared on Facebook. A girl who was apparently willing to put her face, her location, the names of her family her local fucking vet clinic on her zoophilic Tumblr page, strangely had none of these thoughts on a just-as-public Facebook page.

Not one single person thought, “This is a bit odd, maybe I should reach out to this person just to confirm that it’s them.”

You people, high on some fantastical idea of justice, called the authorities. And I did not even know about the existence of the blog until the RSPCA showed up on my doorstep one night.

THEY, thankfully, had the sense to believe me. As soon as they showed me the page and I broke down in tears, they got the idea. So they told me to go to the police. The police palmed me off to ACORN (a cybercrime body) who dismissed the case because “nobody in the images was under the age of 18.”

Meanwhile, Tumblr had taken the page down, only for it to resurface again last year.

I then pursued a civil case. Emailed lawyers in my local city. They advised me only to take it to Tumblr, who shut down the page a second time. No further action was taken.

I never received another call from wildlife rescue because I was unable to prove that I did not run this disgusting blog. Wildlife is my biggest passion in the world and I may never work in that industry until I can clear my name.

So I messaged this page - report-a-predator. They told me to prove it - fair enough. So I sent them EVERYTHING. The screenshots, my emails to ACORN and SAPOL and Tumblr and the lawyers. They did not respond. I emailed them again, begging them to clear my name. They did not respond.

I am furious. I am fucking enraged that this post even still exists on their page, because the actions of this so-called “justice group” has directly impacted the life of an innocent person and they will do nothing to acknowledge it. Not even respond to a simple email. Not even take down the incriminating post.

I know my blog is tiny, I know nobody follows it, I know this will probably never be seen. But I am not going to be silent.

Here another of those horrible Minecraft unofficial novels. The group responsible for this and many other similar cash-grabs is called Innovate Media (look up “Innovate Media books” on Google to find them), they predominantly make these as well as incredibly cheap looking guides.

Personally, I support fan fiction as a way to practice and improve writing skills while having fun. Not as a way to make money from children who don’t know better.