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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by esquevin on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @11:03AM (#13418600)
In the case of toy story 2, I think the analogy would be that they ditched the product they were working on to create a different one. Thus making joel's point non relevant there
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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by olavk on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @11:29AM (#13418820)
It wasn't a new product, they kept a lot of the assets (notably the characters and the universe) but rewrote the script extensively and had to scrap a lot of animation.

I don't think an analogy to software rewrite works very well, the domains are so different. For example Joel makes the point that code have a lot of embedded information which you have to rediscover if you rewrite from scratch. This introduces a huge risk and uncertainty.

If you rewrite a movie script halfway during production you have to scrap a lot of work but you don't really loose knowledge, so the risk is more manageable.

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