in june 2006, chabon maintained that portman was still "a strong likelihood for the part of rosa", and listed a number of important plot points present in the book that would be left out of the movie. the list included the scene between clay and tracy bacon in the ruins of the 1939 world's fair (though the film will still feature a gay love story), the long island scene, and the appearances of orson welles and stan lee. chabon added that "whether [this project] will move at last ... into really-truly pre-production, with a budget and cast and everything, will be decided on or around 12 july 2006." jamie caliri, director of music videos and other short films, posted 2 and a half minutes of concept footage on his vimeo channel, stating, "this piece was made as part of the development process... they asked me to explore animation concepts. i thought it would be much more fun to actually shoot a section of the script to intertwine live action and animation." in august 2006, however, it was reported that the film had "not been greenlit". in april 2007, chabon added that the project "just completely went south for studio-politics kinds of reasons that i'm not privy to... right now, as far as i know, there's not a lot going on."