Doogal (Butch Hartman version)

Doogal is a 2006 animated film which is a US dub of the 2005 film The Magic Roundabout and was considered one of the worst animated movies ever made, Originally Butch Hartman (creator of The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom) was chosen as the lead writer of this version, but after the film come out most of his original script was re-cut, re-written and re-dubbed by Harvey Weinstein as he revealed in a 2017 interview during the scandal surrounding and following Harvey Weinstein during the MeToo and Time's Up movement.

Plot
The US version would have been the same as the original 2005 film.

Cast

 * Chevy Chase
 * Jimmy Fallon
 * Kylie Minogue (reprising her role from the original version but with an American accent)
 * Whoopi Goldberg
 * Bill Hader
 * Judi Dench
 * John Krasinski
 * William H. Macy
 * Kevin Smith
 * Jon Stewart

Why It Was Cancelled

 * 1) Hartman revealed the film was originally going to include a live-action frame story similar to The Princess Bride but it was later scrapped and rejected due to budget costs and was replaced with narration from Judi Dench.
 * 2) Butch Hartman's original script was meant to stay in sync with the animation same with the 2005 version and unlike the final version with much of his script was supposed to be recorded by the actors (Chevy Chase, Jimmy Fallon, Kylie Minogue (who reprised her role from the original version but with a American accent), Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Hader, Judi Dench, John Krasinski, William H. Macy, Kevin Smith and Jon Stewart) who star in the film, with most of them being directed by Hartman.
 * 3) Hartman also said that the original U.S. movie poster had his name and his production company Billionfold Inc. on it, until they were removed in later posters in copyright favour of both Pathé and Action Synthese's credits.

Results

 * In the end, when the film was released, much of Hartman's original script was re-written and re-recorded without his consent by producer Harvey Weinstein and his distribution and production company with a screenplay by Hoodwinked! co-director Cory Edwards. Only 3% of his material made it into the final cut.
 * The final version by Harvey Weinstein had an overabundance of pop culture references and flatulence jokes, neither of which were presumably present in Hartman's script.
 * Doogal was a critical and commercial failure and it has been since considered one of the worst animated movies ever made.
 * Butch Hartman has since disowned the film after most of his script was recut, rewritten and re-recorded by Harvey Weinstein without his permission.
 * The American failure of the film led Action Synthese to strictly only produce TV shows like the reboot of The Magic Roundabout (which only aired for a limited time on Netflix in America) since then, and, 7 years after Doogal was released, the company was subject to bankruptcy causing their planned films (A second Magic Roundabout film, a adaptation of Xilam television animated series Space Goofs and a remake of The Wizard of Oz'') to be cancelled.
 * Doogal has been considered as one of the worst animated films ever made.
 * The Weinstein Company has been shut down in 2018, following the Harvey Weinstein scandal and reformed into Lantern Entertainment and Spyglass Media Group.