Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Ep 432: When Tim Allen almost played the Cat in the Hat

 Drew Taylor starts off by revealing what he saw at the preview event for this year’s D23 Expo. Then Jim Hill shares a history of Genndy Tartakovsky’s never-completed “Popeye” 

Over the course of this episode, listeners will learn about:

• Which D23 Expo events are going to presented this time around over at the Honda Center, rather than inside of the Anaheim Convention Center

• Why did Robin Williams want Walt Disney Productions to fly some Imagineers over to Malta back in 1980

• Which sequel did Sony Pictures Animation officials ask Genndy Tartakovsky to work on out ahead of proceeding with his feature-length animated version of “Popeye”

• Why did Bluto get replaced with Brutus back in the early 1960s

• How did the cancellation of the “Sprockets” movie factor into Mike Myers agreeing to play the title role in Universal Pictures’ “The Cat in the Hat”

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