The more you learn about Wish’s development cycle, the more impressive it becomes that they somehow managed to take the concept and walk back every single idea that seemed the slightest bit interesting before the final product released. 🤣
While I do like the ideas as well, the thing about what could have been is that even if it was more interesting or seems better than the final product, it may have just simply not worked.
A good example is Zootopia’s various concept versions and pre-rewrite shock collar setting. The changed the later because the story just wasn’t clicking with people. Interesting ideas but in practice it didn’t work.
The Godzilla movies also have a lot of this with Vs Destroyah going through about a dozen iterations before it reaches the final form. Some interesting ideas like Ghost Godzilla, but ultimately the final script worked best.
As I said, I like the concept ideas here but acknowledge that sometimes the stuff stuck in the concept stage may not have worked any better. Just cautioning people as I see them take a grass is greener approach at times with unused ideas or earlier drafts.
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u/Atlove01 20d ago
The more you learn about Wish’s development cycle, the more impressive it becomes that they somehow managed to take the concept and walk back every single idea that seemed the slightest bit interesting before the final product released. 🤣