A damning report says that Pixar executives drastically changed the lead character in their newest animated film offering because audiences said in pre-release testing that they would not go watch the film."Elio" tells the tale of an 11-year-old boy who is taken into space and accidentally becomes Earth's ambassador to an interstellar organization of alien communities. The film was not well received and has bombed at the box office.'The exodus of talent after that cut was really indicative of how unhappy a lot of people were that they had changed and destroyed this beautiful work.' In the wake of the film's failure, staffers are coming out to accuse Pixar executives of messing with the film's main character to strip him of features meant to portray him as gay, according to a report from the Hollywood Reporter.The report says that the movie was shown to a test audience in Arizona, and while many said they enjoyed the movie, not one person said they'd see it in the theater, which alarmed studio executives.Adrian Molina, the film's original director, is an openly gay man. After a meeting with executives, Molina left the production, and the project was undertaken by co-directors.Under Molina's direction, the main character had been written as being a fan of fashion and environmentalism, and there was a scene that implied he had a crush on another male, but execs decided to cut all of that out.After the film's devastating box office failures, staffers are coming out to blame executives for cutting out the woke elements of the movie. “I was deeply saddened and aggrieved by the changes that were made,” said Sarah Ligatich, a former assistant editor at Pixar and a member of PixPRIDE, an internal LGBTQ group at the studio. “The exodus of talent after that cut was really indicative of how unhappy a lot of people were that they had changed and destroyed this beautiful work," she added. Ligatich says that many of the creatives on the film left the project after the decision made by executives, but the studio denied the claim to THR.RELATED: Disney's woke 'Snow White' is one of its worst box office bombs Another former Pixar artist commented on the report. “It was pretty clear through the production of the first version of the film that [studio leaders] were constantly sanding down these moments in the film that alluded to Elio’s sexuality of being queer," said the source anonymously. Others said the character was more interesting in the original version but was far more generic after executives meddled with the film. “Suddenly, you remove this big, key piece, which is all about identity, and Elio just becomes about totally nothing,” said the former Pixar artist. Another stumbling block in the film was the sudden departure of actress America Ferrera, who was going to portray the voice of the main character's mother. Pixar says scheduling conflicts led to Ferrera being replaced on the film, but the THR report had another explanation having to do with the director's exit. “America was upset that there was no longer Latinx representation in the leadership," said the former Pixar artist. The movie was believed to have cost Pixar $150 million to produce, but staffers told THR that they believed it cost far more than that. In its opening weekend, the film garnered slightly less than $21 million, a complete disaster. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

While writing for the National Review in 2018, David French refused to use the name Chelsea for former army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, arguing that to do so did not align with his Christian beliefs.However, times have changed, and French unfortunately appears to have fallen, as the mighty often do. This was hinted at when French publicly referred to Brian Riedl, a Manhattan Institute fellow who claims to have a “female brain,” as Jessica.In a social media post on X, French congratulated “Jessica” for his new position at the Dispatch, writing, “This is great news for the Dispatch. Nobody is better on fiscal policy than Jessica.”While French did not use Riedl’s preferred pronouns in the tweet — which BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” believes he did to avoid conflict — he did use Riedl’s preferred pronouns in an article for the New York Times.“Jessica might be one of the nation’s foremost experts about the federal budget and about America’s fiscal realities, and she has taught me an enormous amount about those issues,” he wrote.“Now, you could say the New York Times would never allow him to use male pronouns for someone who identifies as a woman, but if you are so principled and you are so on the side of truth and reality, David French, would you really allow an editorial team at the New York Times or anywhere to compel you to lie? Because that’s what you have done,” Stuckey comments.When French argued against using preferred pronouns in 2018, he wrote in an article titled “The transgender debate: Conservatives cannot compromise truth” that “the transgender debate is not about tolerance, it’s about truth.”“Conservatives cannot, must not, compromise on the biological reality of sex, and they cannot pretend that surgically or chemically altering the body somehow changes that reality,” he continued, adding, “To use female pronouns is to endorse fiction.”French also wrote that the push to mandate preferred pronoun usage is “a direct assault on free speech and religious liberty.”“It’s not just a social norm, it’s tyranny,” he added.“The irony is, in all of this, David French has been arguing for years that evangelicals have accepted a tyrant in Trump because he has promised to give us some of the things that we want,” Stuckey says.“And yet, here he is, submitting to what he has called tyranny by calling a man ‘she,’” she adds.Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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