Stop making me worry. D':

What's next. :<

Good question, I suspect this is where we get to learn how the story earns its title.

Clearly, she didn't have a warrant, so all the charges were thrown out due to the illegal search and seizure.

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I was not prepared for Zootopia feels outside of the movie

Looks like someone's gotten a hold of the original movie draft.

Exactly my thoughts. I like this take on it.

And if Nick can get over his crying, he gets to tell his sweet Honey Bunny he got to play, "Weekend at Bernie's" with her corpse in Tundra Town where he gets the Russian Mafia to allow him to use their chum machine to break the chain of the handcuffs that have them stuck together!

WHOA. Is that what really happened?! Where is this original draft man? I've seen the original concept art but not really the draft script of sorts.

Only snippets of the original draft ever made it out. There were also many characters that got the chopping block. Honey the Badger would have been friggin' hilarious.

Heck, that was the reason the movie took four years for them to finish. They got a year into production when they realized just how damn dark the movie got and that none of them were rooting for things to get better in the city. To quote Art Director Matthias Lechner, "We got to the point where we wanted Nick to just abandon Zootopia to its fate and let God sort 'em out."

Much more of a film noir feel to it, the way you describe it. I think maybe more Blacksad influence. I can see why they lightened it up the way they did, but I'd still have been interested in seeing a story that focused on Nick as a protagonist. Having him become a cop at the end seemed a little too pat to me.

To actually get a year into production, they had made the ending FIRST so they would have a sweet end-goal to work towards. Just watching the look of shock on Wilde's face as the collar comes off... and the relief on his face as he rubs his bare neck says it all. He's at peace.

Whoa, that is dark.

No. Kidding. I believe the second draft had it changed to where she woke up after the chain got stuck in the Chum shredder, but the original draft actually called for Judy's death just as she realized what was going on.

Wait... these guys were making a DISNEY movie and their first draft of the script had the cute bunny being ground up in a wood-chipper while still alive and conscious? What the hell!

Drafts of Bolt were pretty dark too.

How did that go???

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/Bolt

"Originally Bolt was more of a Funny Animal secret agent character, Rhino was a giant radioactive rabbit and as mentioned above, Mittens had an eyepatch and was named Ogo."

No. When it came to deciding Judy Hopps would live, they decided the chain would have gotten stuck The second draft called for her being alive and the grinder of the chum machine caught on the handcuffs as it wasn't strong enough to break the chain. It would have lead the two being stuck more intimately close and getting to talk to one another as they waited for one of the Russian Mafia to come into the kitchen to get them freed.

Wowee, I'd read about some of the darker, dystopian drafts that were shoved aside, but not this one! Is there an online source to read more? :3

I need to find it again. But I think, "Zootopia Judy Dead" or similar would help in a search.

Somebody on Tumblr tried to piece the bits and pieces of this "Zoodystopia" together: http://donkocabana.tumblr.com/post/.....f-you-know-the

jailbird drew a one-page comic here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/19407153/ There's more on their Tumblr.

Woah... I've seen Matthias Lechner's concept art (http://www.matthiaslechner.com/zootopia.html for anyone else curious, this http://www.matthiaslechner.com/uplo.....59392_orig.jpg specifically) but I had no idea that she was dead at that point... I figured knocked out or sleeping. That's incredibly dark.

Thanks for sharing those links. The detail they put into that world is amazing. That's part of what makes the film work as well as it did. Everything about it feels so alive and lived-in.

I think that's from the second draft as it mentions the chain getting caught in the grinder of the chum machine. The original idea was to just get him free so he could go off and try and discover who set him up to take the fall for animals going savage.

OMG thats to dark i like the finished version better </3

If this is how the movie would have been, I would have been a wreck in the theater.

Aww, poor Nick :,[

Oo.

Don't Cry!!

*sniff* I love a good story... *sniff*

"No, MuzzleTime isn't on. Didn't you know? Nature gave bunnies incredible hearing."

Alright this is getting dark, I enjoyed the movie a lot. This comic is a nice unofficial sequel.

It's actually referencing an earlier version of the script. You can see the waterfall sequence about halfway down the page here: http://www.matthiaslechner.com/zootopia.html

Neat site, I'm going to have to try and keep my comments so I can go back. Thanks for sharing!

I think if the phone bubbles were as jagged as the line it would read better. My impression in the last panel was as if judy was still speaking

I've seen a few pictures from the artbook but haven't actually read it or bought it, however from a few sources I have seen I am guessing you are writing this out accurately. if so, DANG the original storyboard was dark! IS this accurate?
I'm looking forward to more pages.

Seems like it. You can find a large amount of the art from the book on the website of their environmental art director: http://www.matthiaslechner.com/zootopia.html - the waterfall scene is about halfway down the page.

Damn, I figured the original Zootopia draft had some pretty messed up things here and there, but I didn't think it would be this dark. Nick starting to cry near the end was heartbreaking as well.

Odear. This doesn't sound promising.

I think a foxy is gonna need a hug...

Noooo baaaby.

I couldn't take you cryin' as a little kit, mate! Don't start bawlin' now!

Oh shit! She's going to need a new glass!

Damn, some of the Disney movies had dark moments, but at least they try to have a happy ending.

Nooo.... Nick. ;.; *All the hugs for the foxie*

Hit me in the feels again Rick. How do you do that so easily? ;~;

don't deny it, Nick. it's ok to cry =3

Nick's pretty hot in the 3rd panel, btw

Every universe gets its "Mirror, mirror" counterpart.

Zootopia meets Les Miserables? o3o

I have really enjoyed the pacing with this comic. It really has a nice energy from panel to panel and that is hard to do. You've really nailed the two chaacter's voices and how I'd imagine them talking to each other after a bad dream and I really like the emotional connection you've given them. You really got the voice of Nick's sardonic amusement and Judy's amused wit well and the dialog works.

This page though was stellar you really get the emotional feel and the core of Nick's crisis. He's had a bad nightmare but none of it was an awful as losing his friend and that really comes through well in that Judy really seems to care and reacts quickly when his emotional walls start to crumble. Really nicely played and a great scene.

It should go without saying that the facial expressions are fantastic.

So he fell asleep watching The Fugitive? ;p

whoa.. wild. :3

Wow. I kinda knew some of what the original story was supposed to be, but the more you explain Nick's nightmare, the more I'm relieved that it turned out as it did.

"Strangely adorable" meaning it's unusual for Judy to be adorable? She was adorable the entire movie!

Loving the references to the early plots/concepts of Zootopia. For anyone curious, here's a huge collection of concept art by the Movie's Art Director of Environments, Matthias Lechner: http://www.matthiaslechner.com/zootopia.html It includes the waterfall scene mentioned here :)

That dystopian Zootopia had direct abuse and cruelty against predators.

woa...

awww <3

Oh... Oh dear. This doesn't seem at all good.

I love Judy's panic in the last two panels. It shows how much she cares that she's desperate to help him. I wouldn't be surprised if in the next page, she's putting her clothes on to rush over to his place.

I see where this is going. o.o'

"Are you crying?"
"Is the video on?! I mean, NO." Damn I with I was that fking smooth.

Lol. I like how you managed to make a comic out of the old script.

...

To add a bit of levity to the otherwise dark tone, am I the only one who is imagining the fall into the river to start at a dam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sj.....X4iymo&ebc ?

Never let 'em see they get to you.

Awww. Very nice emotional moment. :)

I haven watch zootopia, but this comic doesn't feel like zootopia,,,
is like a,,, just another rick griffin comic, btw u really good at utilising your style in this. u r amazing!

I love this like few things in the last year or so

Awww poor Nick.

Judy, get your bunny buns over there and give him a hug for crying out loud!

Oh girl, just go over there.

That's some dark shit!

Did you watch something to give you this idea???? If so; PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO FIND IT, I'M GOING BANANAS!!!! If not; I'm sorry for wasting your time reading when you have work to do and a comic to finish. BUT I'M STILL GOING BANANAS!!!!

Zootopia.

I know Zootopia; I'm asking if the artist if s/he saw the OTHER version of the movie. The Deleted version of the movie. The version of the movie that didn't whined up in the theatres. THAT ZOOTOPIA!!!! Sorry if this reply is mean, I've got a headache from going bananas.

I happened to nick

Dreams can do that to you...

so emotional^^

Even a fox has a heart.

Rough Spanish translation:
Por lo tanto, en la parte superior del cuello de la cosa ahora era un fugitivo de prisión. Y ellos le enviaron después de mí.

Oh, estás en este sueño, por cierto.

Me preguntaba si me presento.

Usted era un teniente canoso dura, que estaba extrañamente adorable.

Niiick ...

Pero, por supuesto, no estaba usted ... Usted tenía un deber y me persiguió por todas partes. Un revoltijo de lugares en los que he estado y no han sido. Usted totalmente convencido que era un zorro fugitivo poco fiable.

Hasta que cayó al río y nos dejó una cascada. Pero no lo hizo ... que ...

¿Nick?

Nick, ¿estás llorando ?!

Es el video en ?! ¡Quiero decir, no! ¿Qué te hace pensar que?

oh no, Nick .. *hugs*

Aaaaannnd now I am really, really happy the movie didn't go that way.
We don't need another Watership down, I think

Wonder if Dream Nick dreamt about anything meeting a couple of weird mammals with oversize keys... Either babbling about hearts or darkness..