Metro (DisneyToon Studios)

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Metro was a cancelled movie by DisneyToon Studios that marked the studio's third (and final) attempt to produce a feature centered around trains. It was set to be directed by Steve Loter and Sunil Hall. Concept art for it surfaced a couple of days ago on 4Chan.

Here are some concept posters developed for the film.












Here's what the directors had to say about it.

I can’t talk too much about it, but I can tell you some fun facts. I would have directed it with Sunil Hall as my co-director and head of story. It would have been art directed by Ryan Carlson with Jermaine Fowler as the lead voice and Raphael Saadiq doing the score as well as cover of Stevie Wonder’s Living In The City as the end credit song. Story wise it was a cross between a specific Walter Hill film from the 70’s and a specific Scorsese film from the 80’s. Also, most of the film would have been real time with no time jumps. We had full access working with the MTA. It would have been great.

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Born and raised in New York. I had to do subways. It would have been the grittiest and edgiest Cars film. It also was in real time.

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It was moving the franchise into a new place.

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I developed this for four (?) years and I was really disappointed I didn't get a chance to finish it.

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Q: Do you know when this was supposed to release before it was cancelled?

Steve Loter: I think 2021?

Q: In what state did the film managed to stay before it's cancellation?

Steve Loter: We had developed it for a while and had different versions of the story. When the amazing Sunil Hall came onto the film, we got the script.

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I worked on this and it would have been a very unique and unexpected take on the Cars universe. Still bummed we never got to take it past development, but it's nice to see some of the art has made it out into the wild.

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Q: In a world of sentient vehicles, the existence of the train must be some kind of existential nightmare. They are prisoners of their tracks, forced to travel the same routes day after day, fully aware of their situation for their entire lives with no hope of escape.

Sunil Hall: Yeah, we totally leaned in to this. Steve wasn't afraid of exploring the darker implications of what a trains life would be like.

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[DisneyFan09]

So this was supposed to be another vehicle-centered spinoff by Cars, huh?