THE TWO FACES OF JACK SAVAGE:

AND HOW HE BECAME NICK WILDE





Article 1: Jack Savage during Savage Seas early pre-production





Article 2: This is ALSO Jack Savage



We all know that early on in the pre-production of Zootopia, when it was known as Savage City, the character of Jack Savage existed. This is the character we all have come to associate with Jack Savage:This character has been used a lot in fanfiction, often paired up with another cut character, the arctic vixen named Skye. But at some point the character was dropped when the story moved direction. However, while we have all assumed the character was dropped outright... as revealed by Byron Howard last night on the official Zootopia Facebook page's livestream with him, that wasn't entirely the case. See, while taking questions, Byron Howard took the drawing he did of Nick during the livestream and stated that at one point, when the film was a spy film, Nick was known by a very different name. Guess what that name was.Jack Savage.I'm going to guess here based on what was said during the livestream: Byron admitted that the reason that one of the main characters is a fox is because Byron loves foxes, and he was inspired by Robin Hood. So, my guess is that, at some point, the idea came about to change Jack Savage from a jackrabbit to a fox. He still held a few physical similarities to the old Jack Savage at this point: sharp black suit, gun, and blue eyes. In fact: the image above actually looks identical to the previous one, with the only changes being the redrawn head and tail.From hereon out, this is no longer guesswork, but what Byron stated on the livestream: once the film evolved from a spy movie to a detective film, forming the foundation of what would become, and the idea of a serum that drove mammals savage was brought in, it no longer seemed appropriate to have the main character named Jack Savage. So they renamed the character Jack Wilde.What went from there is that the directors then realised Disney was making, their adaptation of the story of, and so not wanting to have their lead character share a name with another Disney animated film's lead character, they opted to change the character to Nick Wilde.And there you have it: the story of the two faces of Jack Savage, and how he became Nick Wilde.