![]() ![]() This version of the film was released in theaters, and was a commercial and critical flop. However, after missing deadlines for completion due to his perfectionism, and with Disney coming out with another similar film, Aladdin, the film was taken away from William's hands and given to a Completion Bond company, who cut a large chunk of all of the finished footage out, added in generic musical numbers, and gave the mute characters voices. Over the course of nearly thirty years, Williams and his animation team meticulously drew every frame of the film by hand, some scenes being so well animated they could easily be mistaken for CGI graphics.Īt one point, Williams was hired to direct the animation for Who Framed Roger Rabbit? After the huge success that turned out to be, Williams was given proper funding to finish The Thief and the Cobbler from Warner Pictures. In 1964, Richard Williams began work on an animated film in his free time later known as The Thief and the Cobbler, taking on animating other films and television projects to fund the production of his film on the side. Considering how many people would need to see the film, or buy the DVD, just to make some kind of profit off of the film, around 50,000 signatures will be required to show Disney that there is a large interest in Richard Williams' magnum opus. ![]() Almost twenty years after the original cut of The Thief and the Cobbler was released to the public, we're asking the Walt Disney Company, who currently already once attempted a restoration of the film, to finally get a proper team of animators together and finish this forgotten masterpiece of a film.
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