Angus Fletcher
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If you want, I mean, I can tell you how the story started and then Gary, you want to, do you want to?
So basically I get a phone call from Gary and Gary and I are old friends.
We've worked together on a bunch of screenwriting projects.
Gary is one of the most famous and eminent screenwriters in Hollywood.
If you love the end to Total Recall, you can thank Gary for that.
So Gary calls me up and he goes, Angus, have you seen Disney's latest movie?
And so he tells me this story of how he goes to Disney, how he pitched him this idea, how he wrote it down on a physical document, which he gave to Disney.
And he goes, I think they might have stolen my idea.
I said, what's on this document?
And Gary goes to me, OK, well, in my pitch, it says, when you grow up, quote, if you want to be an elephant, you can be an elephant.
And in Disney's movie, it says, quote, you want to be an elephant when you grow up?
You can be an elephant.
And in Gary's pitch, it says, this is going to take place in a land where, quote, an animal can be whatever it wants to be.
And in Disney's movie, it says, this is going to take place in a land where, quote, anybody can be anything.
And then I say to Gary, what is this land?
And Gary says to me, in my pitch, it's called Zootopia.
And amazingly, in the Disney movie, it's called Zootopia.
So first of all, I just want to point out that you have the writer of Total Recall, which is generally considered to be one of the greatest stories of all time, telling you that Total Recall is nothing compared to Zootopia.