Because they ixnayed Elton John’s animated musical about gnomes.

No offense to Sir Elton, but Gnomeo & Juliet sounds like a disaster…which actually kind of makes me want to see it, but oh well. Maybe it’ll make it to Broadway.

The Elton John movie “Gnomeo & Juliet,” an animated musical based on William Shakespeare’s tragic romance, is no longer in production at Walt Disney Feature Animation, the studio said yesterday (March 27).

John was producing the movie about small star-crossed lovers through his Rocket Pictures banner, and was engaged to write the songs.

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