Andrew Stanton’s tweet was a response to a narrative shared by Mike Mozart, a product reviewer for the JeepersMedia YouTube channel. Whereas chatting with SuperCarlinBrothers, Mozart mentioned Pixar’s Joe Ranft relayed the story about Andy’s father to him after Mozart was known as in to work as a toy advisor on one of many motion pictures. The story unfold from there, however is there any fact to it?
Whereas Stanton’s declare has extra behind-the-scenes advantage than Mozart’s story, Redditor u/LegoK9 posits that the YouTuber would possibly nonetheless have had that dialog with Ranft. “I suppose Joe by no means mentioned these items with Andrew Stanton. Or possibly Joe was BS-ing and made all of it up on the cease after the actual fact.”
An identical sentiment was echoed by one other Reddit person, who famous that Stanton may have shared extra data to debunk the speculation extra sufficiently. “All he did is say ‘nah,’ and ‘Toy Story’ had 4 writers. I hoped for some precise statements on why the backstory didn’t work.”
Is it attainable that Ranft got here up with the backstory and did not inform Pixar’s different employees members? Was he messing with Mozart? Did the dialog even occur in any respect? This matter hasn’t been settled but, however hopefully the upcoming “Toy Story 5” will clear up the story of Andy’s dad.