While Zootopia 2 keeps getting closer to breaking into the list of ten highest grossing movies of all time, we just found out that Disney's original animated movie could have looked very different – like a James Bond-type spy movie set on an island.
According to original co-writer and the sequel's co-director Jared Bush, the story was going in a different direction when he was first welcomed into the creative team for Zootopia. "When I first got here, he [Zootopia director Byron Howard] had pitched this notion of, 'It's going to be a world of talking animals and they're going to have technology and wear clothes,'" he said during a recent appearance on the podcast The Town with Matthew Belloni.
