by august 1962, they sent the completed script to burbank, where it was returned as "rejected" by an unknown executive at the disney studios. nevertheless, tytle brought the script to disney staying at the connaught in london. disney approved for the draft, but recommended additional cuts which were made by february 1963. before filming was to commence, rowe wrote a letter to disney addressing his displeasure of the script revisions, in which tytle responded to rowe that the changes disney approved of would be kept. however, by summer 1963, the project was shelved, where tytle, in a discussion with walt, recommended to produce "the aristocats" as an animated feature. for that reason, disney temporarily shelved the project as the animation department was occupied with "the jungle book". meanwhile, director wolfgang reitherman learned of the project and suggested it as a follow-up project to "jungle book". because of the production delays, tytle was advised to centralize his efforts on live action projects and was replaced by winston hibler.