Finnick in Disney has got to get it Right!
Finnick has a conversation with Nick about his concerns with the sequel to Zootopia.
Yeah, I've been locked up in my attic "office" and I'm bored, so you are going to have to suffer through yet another story. Apparently, I finally managed to catch Covid and it seems like I've just got a very bad cold. Unfortunately, I have also lost both my senses of smell and taste, which is not so bad around the chicken coop, but I am surely missing the heavenly aroma and delectable flavor of the wife's baked bread. At least it's off-season at the farm, and with Young Goat taking care of things, I'm really not that busy.
I do not own the rights to Zootopia or any of its characters. Thank you to Disney for the movie. This story was written solely for the reader's enjoyment and without any profitable purposes. All names, characters, locations, and incidents portrayed within are being used in a fictitious manner.
Walt Disney World, Florida
Listen, Wilde, they've only got one chance to get a sequel to our movie right," the fennec fox in the dark blue dress shirt and khaki slacks growled while he paced across the apartment's floor, his footpaw claws clicked on the cheap linoleum tiles.
"Come on, Finn, I'm sure everything will be perfectly fine. Disney has some of the best creative talents in the world working for them," the larger red fox lounging on a sofa replied after he turned off the television and tossed the remote onto a nearby coffee table.
"Sometimes I just don't understand you. You're just sitting there like everything is going to be…how did you put it? Oh yeah, 'perfectly fine!'"
"Why worry your big ears over something you can't control? The team at Disney is the best at what they do."
"Obviously you didn't watch Strange World. Disney lost millions upon millions on that movie."
"A swing and a miss, it happens sometimes," Nick replied before he brushed some crumbs, from the sandwich he had been eating, off of the gray tee shirt he was wearing. There was the image of Mickey Mouse on a skateboard and the words "Skate All Day" printed on the shirt.
"Red, where did you get that tee shirt?" Finnick asked while he shook his head. "I never thought you'd ever buy something like that."
"Nope, it was a gift from Goofy. Actually, I think they may have ordered too many of these and they were trying to dump the shirts by cutting the price."
"In the dump is where Goofy probably found that shirt," the small fox snickered.
"All of this coming from a fox who wears an elephant costume?" Nick sarcastically replied. "Aw, is little Toot Toot jealous because he wants one too?"
"I may have worn an elephant costume in the movie, but you wouldn't ever catch me in that shirt."
"Don't worry, they don't make them in toddler sizes anyways," the red fox laughed.
"Just shut up and look over some of these ideas that I have for a script."
"Wait, just why do you think that the writers need your help?" Nick laughed after he reached over and picked up the small tablet the other fox handed him.
"I'm sure that no one would object to a little creative help," Finnick replied with a shrug.
Nick scrolled down the page.
"What do you think?" the smaller fox asked.
"The massive pursuit car...Judy sat down...he grabbed... fallen tree on the side of the road...Nick began to read aloud before he looked at the smaller fox in surprise. "Wait a minute, I've read some of these stories before! Finnick, this is a cut-and-paste job from various fanfiction stories!" he exclaimed in surprise. Clicking the screen with his claws again, the larger fox now silently scanned the next idea and then the next. "You can't plagiarize other writers' works!"
"Why not? Look, I'm not plagiarizing anyone."
"Really, then please explain to me what you think you are doing?"
"Let's just say that I'm repurposing some of their stories into ideas that will help guide the Disney writers. There are a lot of talented fanfiction writers out there who could contribute ideas, after all, they kept our story alive for all the years after the movie came out. Fans who added to our story through the dark days of Covid and stayed united even while the world seemed torn apart."
"Repurposing?"
"Yeah, repurposing."
"There are also several untalented fanfiction writers, such as Old Goat," Nick sighed before he set the tablet on the table.
"Who's Old Goat?" Finnick asked.
"Exactly!" the larger fox replied with a dismissive flick of his paw. "I'm sure the Disney writers can come up with their own ideas, in fact, I'm pretty sure they have some plans already in the works."
"I hope that these plans are not being made by the same folks who wrote Tod's movie sequel. The Fox and the Hound 2 was terrible."
"That was released directly to video years ago, way back in late 2006."
"They should have released it directly into the nearest trash can," Finnick snickered.
"Please go ahead and tell me how you really feel about it?" Nick sarcastically commented with a shake of his head. "Finn, I'm pretty sure that they are using the same talent who wrote Zootopia. Also, those specials they did for Zootopia Plus were really good."
"So says the fox who didn't have to wear an elephant costume again! Do you have any idea how embarrassing it is to go into a store and see a plushy toy of yourself in that damned outfit?"
"Not all the toys have you dressed like little Toot Toot."
"I am definitely not wearing that thing in the next movie or even one of those stupid bowling shirts. Do I even look like the kind of fox who would go bowling? No, I'm more of a pool shark than a ball roller. They should dress me in a nice suit with a burgundy shirt, maybe with a flower tucked in my lapel. Something classy."
"Classy...you?"
"I can be classy when I want to be."
"Dude, I've heard you belch the alphabet while drinking a six-pack."
"That was years ago during college spring break at the beach and I thought it would impress the girls."
"It didn't." Nick chuckled while he leaned back on the sofa. "It wasn't spring break either, it was on Fox Day at Rollins College and there isn't much of a beach on Lake Virginia."
"Shut up, Wilde."
"Are you even sure that you're going to be in the sequel?"
"They need someone in the movie who is ruggedly handsome and a real sex symbol," the smaller fox scoffed.
"Well, did you realize that after Zootopia came out there was a boom in the illegal sale and ownership of fennec foxes in China?"
"Are you going to blame me for that?"
"No, but they say that you fennec foxes make terrible pets," Nick replied while he held his right paw up and began counting down. First, you are territorial. Second, you are difficult to house train. Third, you are destructive…"
"Since you like counting down with your fingers so much, here let me help you!" Finn interrupted as he held his right paw up and extended his middle digit toward the larger fox. "One, red foxes are the same."
"Point taken."
After a few moments, Nick picked up the tablet again and scrolled through some of the stories that Finn had downloaded. "You seem to be missing several...ah, repurposing ideas from some of the much more interesting fanfiction stories," he finally stated while he gave his best friend one of his infamous smirks.
"Come on, Wilde, you know that a Zootopia sequel has to be rated PG," Finnick answered while he gave a knowing grin.