Editing Toy Story (section)

=== Production shutdown ===
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Every couple of weeks, Lasseter and his team showed Disney their latest storyboards or footage. Disney was impressed by Pixar's technical innovation, but less so of the plot. Katzenberg discarded most of Pixar's script ideas, giving his own extensive notes. Katzenberg primarily wanted to add "more edginess" to the two main characters,{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=207}} as Disney wanted ''Toy Story'' to appeal to both children and adults, and they asked for adult references to be added to the film.<ref name="EWToyWonder" /> The characters ended up being stripped of their charm,{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=207}}{{sfn|Price|2008|p=129}} with Hanks, while recording Woody's dialogue for the story reels, pointed out that the Woody character had been made into a "real jerk".{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=207}} Pixar screened the first half of the film for Disney executives on November 19, 1993—an event they later dubbed the "Black Friday Incident".<ref name="EWToyWonder">{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2010/06/29/toy-story-inside-buzz/ |title=Toy' Wonder |date=December 8, 1995 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=March 11, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205204251/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,299897,00.html|archive-date=December 5, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=208}} The results were disastrous, and Disney's head of feature animation, Peter Schneider, halted production.{{sfn|Price|2008|p=130}} Katzenberg asked colleague [[Thomas Schumacher]] why the reels were bad, to which Schumacher answered, "Because it's not their movie anymore; it's completely not the movie that John set out to make."{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=208}}

Lasseter was embarrassed by the current state of the film, later recalling, "It was a story filled with the most unhappy, mean characters that I've ever seen." Katzenberg allowed him to take the script back to Pixar for rewrites,{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=208}} and the production crew shifted to television commercials while the head writers worked out a new script, being funded personally by Jobs until Disney resumed production.{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=208}} Although Lasseter attempted to keep morale high by remaining outwardly buoyant, the production shutdown was "a very scary time" according to story department manager BZ Petroff.{{sfn|Price|2008|p=131}} Schneider appealed directly to Eisner to cancel the project altogether.<ref name="autogenerated2005">{{cite AV media |title=Toy Story (10th Anniversary Edition) – (Filmmakers Reflect) |medium=DVD |publisher=Walt Disney Home Entertainment |date=September 6, 2005}}</ref>{{sfn|Price|2008|p=124}} Stanton and the other story artists worked to quickly produce new script pages, with help from consultants such as Whedon, and the first revisions were completed in two weeks as promised.{{sfn|Price|2008|p=131}}

Pixar's script rewrites took three months, and saw Woody transformed from a tyrant to a wise leader. It also included a more adult-oriented staff meeting amongst the toys rather than the juvenile group discussion that had existed in earlier drafts. Buzz Lightyear's character was also changed "to make it more clear to the audience that he genuinely doesn't know he's a toy".<ref name="autogenerated2005" /> Katzenberg and Schneider resumed production with the new script by February 1994,{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=208}} and the voice actors returned one month later to record their new lines.<ref name="EWToyWonder" /> The crew grew from 24 people to 110, and now included 27 animators and 22 technical directors.<ref name=ew7 />{{sfn|Price|2008|p=133}} In comparison, ''[[The Lion King]]'', released in 1994, required a staff of 800.<ref name=ew7>{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2010/06/29/toy-story-inside-buzz/ |title='Toy Story': The Inside Buzz |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=December 8, 1995 |access-date=July 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112201126/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,299897_7,00.html |archive-date=January 12, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> In the early budgeting process, Jobs was eager to produce the film as efficiently as possible, impressing Katzenberg with his focus on cost-cutting. However, the $17&nbsp;million production budget was no longer going to be sufficient, and Jobs requested more funds from Disney to compensate them for the time lost in rewrites based on Katzenberg's notes. Catmull was able to reach a compromise on a new budget, but the incident led Jobs to rethink their deal with Disney.{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=208}}