Byron Howard wanted to make "a film similar to Disney's Robin Hood, which also featured animals in anthropomorphic roles".
AnimationSeries· 2016· Comedy
Zootopia
Zootopia: it draws on 3 recorded sources.
What influenced Zootopia
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
Byron Howard first pitched Zootopia as a spy film in the James Bond mould; it became a buddy-cop mystery in development.
Mr. Big, the Arctic shrew crime boss, is an homage to Marlon Brando's Vito Corleone in The Godfather.