Talk:Swirlee (1989 Short Film)/@comment-98.14.143.0-20140809042326

So... I actually know one of the guys who made this and have seen the footage at a screening that happened two years ago. The short does indeed still exist, at least in video form (I've been told film elements do exist as well). The full short has never been released because the guy who owns the footage and the copyright to it has plans to revive the project. So its not exactly lost, just exceedingly rare.

Another interesting tidbit: When Swirlee was being shopped to studios, the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had just come out and had been a monster hit (it was the hightest-grossing indepedent film of its time), and studios wanted to retool the movie into something more along the lines of that; a kid movie with 'tude.