Pixar’s Toy Story has become a bona fide classic, but the tale of an anthropomorphic group of toys — led by a pull-string cowboy named Woody (Tom Hanks) and an astronaut action figure named Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) — almost featured totally different heroes. In fact, the original treatment for the film had quite a number of differences than the movie we “know and love,” according to creativity researcher Keith Sawyer’s book Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Creativity. The Atlantic created a thorough timeline that outlines all the versions of various characters and narratives. For starters: Woody, for example, started out as kind of a jerk. ("An early scene," Sawyer notes in the book, "had him abusing Slinky Dog, and...
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- 7/2/2014
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
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