Editing Don Bluth (section)

=== Unproduced films ===
The earliest of Bluth's unfinished film projects is a [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney]]-produced animated short film adaptation of the fairy tale ''[[The Pied Piper of Hamelin]]'' from the early 1970s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WHDRFl0rSs|title=Sections of Piper Short|date=August 11, 2008 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet|number=940981302722887680|user=DonBluth|title=ENROLL TODAY! Get a full year of ONLINE classes from Master Animator &amp; Director Don Bluth! Classes start Feb 6th, 2…<!-- full text of tweet that Twitter returned to the bot (excluding links) added by TweetCiteBot. This may be better truncated or may need expanding (TW limits responses to 140 characters) or case changes. --> |date=December 13, 2017}}</ref> After ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'', Bluth began developing an animated feature film adaptation of ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]''. While a few scenes were produced in 1984, the film's production was officially cancelled in 1989, when Don Bluth and the film's distributor [[Columbia Pictures]] heard the news of Disney beginning work on their [[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|own animated adaptation]].{{sfn|Cawley|1990|page=[http://www.cataroo.com/DBbeyond.html 149]}} That same time, Bluth began developing an animated adaptation of ''[[East of the Sun and West of the Moon]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Culhane |first=John |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/04/movies/special-effects-are-revolutionizing-film.html |title=Special Effects Are Revolutionizing Film |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 4, 1982}}</ref> Ultimately, the film was never made due to a loss of financial backing.<ref name="comicsjournal" /> Following Don Bluth's partnership with Steven Spielberg, 1986's ''[[An American Tail]]'' was released as Bluth's second film instead. During production of ''East of the Sun and West of the Moon'', Bluth also animated a [[demo reel]] of ''Jawbreaker'', a proposed television series by Phil Mendez of a boy who finds a magical tooth.<ref name="”Jawbreaker” Story">{{cite web |url=http://dragonslairthemovie.com/jawbreaker-story/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430124613/http://dragonslairthemovie.com/jawbreaker-story/|archive-date=April 30, 2019|title="Jawbreaker" Story}}</ref> The series however, was not greenlit.

Two more films were planned during Bluth's partnership with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. The first film was an animated adaptation of ''[[The Velveteen Rabbit]]'', a story about an abandoned toy rabbit in pursuit of its child owner. The second film was ''Satyrday'', based on a story by Steven Bauer about a young boy in a fantasy world who defends the moon and sun from evil forces.{{sfn|Cawley|1990|pages=[http://www.cataroo.com/DBbeyond.html 149–150]}} Some of the film's concepts were later realized as the 2014 French animated film ''[[Mune: Guardian of the Moon]]''.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}} After his partnership with Spielberg ended, Bluth began planning another film titled ''The Little Blue Whale'' with screenwriter [[Robert Towne]]. The planned film was about a little girl and her animal friends who try to protect a little whale from evil whalers.{{sfn|Cawley|1990|page=[http://www.cataroo.com/DBbeyond.html 149]}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ecollections.scad.edu/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?lang=eng&sp=1000249 |title=The Little Blue Whale – Color Keys (part 1): Storyboards 4–45 |website=SCAD Libraries}}</ref> Other unrealized projects also included plans for an animated short film centered around a magical talking pencil starring [[Dom DeLuise]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ecollections.scad.edu/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?lang=eng&sp=1000076 |title=The Magic Pencils – Character Sketch |website=SCAD Libraries}}</ref> animated film adaptations of the books ''[[Quintaglio Ascension]]'', ''[[The Belgariad]]'', and  ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''. The latter productions were canceled following the box office failure of ''[[Titan A.E.]]'' and subsequent closure of [[Fox Animation Studios]]. In 2005, a [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)|live-action ''Hitchhiker's'' film]] was released by [[Touchstone Pictures]].