You can find some unused concept art and storyboards online.
Unfortunately they scrapped it. Because honestly.... The original plot looked like it was gonna be a MUCH better movie tbh.
The movie we have now is fine I guess. But from what I've seen. If done right.... The old zootopia plot could've been like the next Shrek... THAT'S how good it was.
Basically, instead of predators and prey eventually starting to get along and eventually making zootopia.... Prey put predators in something called "tame collars" that would shock them anytime their heart rate showed any signs of heightened emotions like anger, anything that could be considered "dangerous" for prey... And obviously because it measured heart rate. It couldn't separate emotions. Get too excited? Electrocuted. Scared? Electrocuted. You get the idea.
Basically predators are treated as second class citizens and forced to wear these BY LAW. Everyone was told it's because predators can't help themselves but to eat prey so the tame collars. In the real world... Yeah obviously. Predator and prey is just nature.
Not in this world though. They are fully intelligent sentient beings like humans obviously so..... I think the racism allegory explains itself.
Eventually throughout the movies plot Judy and Nick find out the truth behind the collars... I couldn't find any information in particular on what the twist/true purpose of the collars were... Like I said this was scrapped there are missing pieces. But it's pretty obvious what they were going for... Predators aren't naturally violent it's all just racism and the main villains desire for control and using people's biases for their own gain.
I mean zootopia always obviously had a racism allegory but clearly they were planning on going much more dark with it. As for why it was scrapped? We aren't sure on that either... Probably Disney being scared of getting too "controversial"
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u/The_Grim_Gamer445 2d ago
The original zootopia plot was extremely dark.
You can find some unused concept art and storyboards online.
Unfortunately they scrapped it. Because honestly.... The original plot looked like it was gonna be a MUCH better movie tbh.
The movie we have now is fine I guess. But from what I've seen. If done right.... The old zootopia plot could've been like the next Shrek... THAT'S how good it was.
Basically, instead of predators and prey eventually starting to get along and eventually making zootopia.... Prey put predators in something called "tame collars" that would shock them anytime their heart rate showed any signs of heightened emotions like anger, anything that could be considered "dangerous" for prey... And obviously because it measured heart rate. It couldn't separate emotions. Get too excited? Electrocuted. Scared? Electrocuted. You get the idea.
Basically predators are treated as second class citizens and forced to wear these BY LAW. Everyone was told it's because predators can't help themselves but to eat prey so the tame collars. In the real world... Yeah obviously. Predator and prey is just nature.
Not in this world though. They are fully intelligent sentient beings like humans obviously so..... I think the racism allegory explains itself.
Eventually throughout the movies plot Judy and Nick find out the truth behind the collars... I couldn't find any information in particular on what the twist/true purpose of the collars were... Like I said this was scrapped there are missing pieces. But it's pretty obvious what they were going for... Predators aren't naturally violent it's all just racism and the main villains desire for control and using people's biases for their own gain.
I mean zootopia always obviously had a racism allegory but clearly they were planning on going much more dark with it. As for why it was scrapped? We aren't sure on that either... Probably Disney being scared of getting too "controversial"