After my film was shown at USC's First Look in 1993, I was contacted by Hanna-Barbera (recently purchased by Turner) and got a couple interviews, and was asked if I had any script ideas for a new animated film, with an emphasis on a more adult theme. I did, and I tried really hard to develop them. I was never really happy with them, always too dark and not the satire I was hoping for. Also it is not clear what happened to Hanna-Barbera/Turner, as they never talked to me again, and it does not seem they hired anybody else or went anywhere near producing any such films.

I was shocked at the similarities of my plot with Avatar, and I feel I really should post this, just in case the sequels, now in production, have any resemblance to how the idea developed. I do not think James Cameron stole my idea. Instead I think we both stole from the movie Fern Gully, and perhaps other stories and movies, with attempts to add twists to make it more interesting and plausible.

I think I was also satirizing HB's own Once Upon a Forest, which I knew about even though I have never seen it.

The Original Script for Guardian of the Forest