Tim Johnson and Brad Lewis, the co-directors and producers of Antz respectively, were slated to direct and produce the project, and Morgan Freeman, Jodie Foster, Garry Shandling, Dana Carvey, Bruno Kirby and Don Knotts were part of the cast. In their travels, they encounter a wide variety of dangers, including a band of marauding poachers. It would have been an original story chronicling a herd of elephants crossing southeast Asia. In December 1998, DreamWorks and PDI announced their third computer-animated project titled Tusker, which was meant to follow Shrek. The idea was scrapped, but after production on Madagascar started, director Eric Darnell decided to revive the penguins and make them a commando unit instead of a rock band.
In 1998, DreamWorks and PDI started development on a film parodying The Beatles, which featured a Beatles-esque penguin rock band. Eventually, these two studios resolved their conflict and didn't try to sue the other company. Also, under the same name of Antz, Pixar Animation Studios debated with DreamWorks over whether Antz was a rip-off of their 1998 film A Bug's Life.
By early 1999, when DreamWorks closed its television animation unit and merged the direct-to-video unit with the feature animation, the sequel was still planned, but eventually the project was cancelled. Like the first film, it was planned to be produced by Pacific Data Images, and was also considered for theatrical release. Ī direct-to-video sequel to Antz was in development at DreamWorks at the time of its release. Despite a developed script and some test animations made to pitch the film, The idea was scrapped when the studio was picked up by DreamWorks to make Antz which said film shares many aspects. One of which was a film called Bugs: Lights Out about microscopic insect-like robots who were responsible for the entropy of electronics and machinery. Prior to Toy Story and even the DreamWorks company itself, The animation studio PDI was shopping around many pitches for a computer animated film. PDI/DreamWorks, Oriental DreamWorks, Aardman Animations, Columbus 81 Productions, Jay Ward Productions, World Events Productions, Double Dare You Productions, Scholastic Corporation and Amblin Entertainment), as well as sequels to their franchises. These also include the co-productions the studio collaborated with in the past (i.e. Some of these films or shows were, or still are, in development limbo.
The following is a list of unmade and unreleased animated projects by DreamWorks Animation.
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