Earth Farm

Earth Farm was a planned computer-animated family science-fiction comedy disaster film produced by Universal Animation. The film was to be written and directed by William Jennings in his directorial debut, co-written by Thomas Lennon and Erica Rivinoja based on an original idea by Jennings, and produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

Plot
Steven Fischer lives an ordinary life with his wife Marcella and their two teenage children, Nate and Kate. However, one day, their home planet Earth gets abducted by a mysterious giant alien named Murolg who takes it to his home planet to give it as a gift to his son Zog on his 13th birthday. Zog then plays with Earth like a toy or an ant farm by attacking it, causing the whole world to get wrecked and destroyed. It is up to Steven and his family to stop the chaos caused by Zog before it is too late.

Why it was cancelled

 * The concept and premise was too similar to their own 2010 animated feature Computeropolis 3 as well as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

Result

 * Brandon Minez later went on to produce the fifth Computeropolis installment.