The Prince and the Pig

The director of the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson, had written an "epic poem" about a prince and his pet pig while he was a student at USC.  Reported on July 17, 2003, Disney paid 6-figures for the pitch, and were going to make The Prince and the Pig into an animated film.  The plot of the poem was the prince and pig go on an adventure to either steal the moon or steal a piece of the moon.  Jane Goldenring was slated to be the film’s producer.  Disney’s VP of Creative Affairs, Leo Chu, and Director of Creative Affairs, Karen Rupert, were slated to be supervisors on the film.

In 2011, students in the Commercial Arts program at Blue Ridge Community and Technical College had an assignment to design posters for this movie!  And a DeviantArt user made a poster for a "Disney movies that could have been" contest! 

(EiteToast, DeviantArt)

(Lyle Douglass, BRCTC)

(Autumn Thompson, BRCTC)

(Catt Wright, BRCTC)

(Kevin Smith, BRCTC)

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Document URL

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Thompson, A. (2011). The Prince and the Pig, Regional School Unit. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/a/rsu1.org/autumnthompson/home/the-prince-and-the-pig on 5/20/12.
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Wright, C. (2011). The Prince and the Pig, Regional School Unit. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/a/rsu1.org/cattwright/the-prince-and-the-pig on 5/20/12.
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-Amy