Malcolm Gladwell
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
What period of time are we talking about here?
Fast forward nine years.
Goldman's doing a project with a comic book legend, Stan Lee, for Disney.
And he goes to the Disney exec he's working with, and he says, I have this idea.
Gives them an eight-page outline of the concept.
It's about an animator who creates an animal world called Zootopia.
He has drawings of the animals who are going to inhabit the Zootopia world.
Roscoe, the hyena, who is cynical and obnoxious.
His sidekick Mimi, the squirrel, who is cute and curvaceous and optimistic.
Goldman thinks that this is the best idea he's ever had for a movie.
The world where all this took place was Zootopia.
Gary takes his idea to the executive he's working with at Disney.
The executive, according to Goldman, basically says, this is interesting.
Should I give it to the folks over at Animation?