This year, perhaps more than ever, the Summer movie season has been influenced by various elements in the C2C universe. This is readily apparent by the new Disney / Pixar film Wall-E. My sources in the animation industry tell me that the original plan for the film centered around none other than George "The Noor" Noory.

Using the working title of Noor-E, the film was set in the near-future and Mars rovers had returned blurry pictures of what could be Bigfoot on the Red Planet. NASA officials determined that the best way to investigate the potential mysterious cryptid on Mars was to send a new probe to the planet ... one both human and robot.

Enter daring esoteric radio host George Noory, who volunteered for the experimental procedure grafting his head onto a mechanized body. Following the successful surgery, the half-robot/half-human Noory, dubbed "Noor-E," is blasted into the cosmos, destination: Mars.

There, he encounters the Mars Bigfoot community, falls in love with a Bigfoot princess, does battle with Martian worm-beasts, solves an agricultural crisis that afflicted the planet's population, and, in the film's emotional conclusion, decides that he must cover up the true nature of Martian Bigfoot (for its own safety) and returns to Earth claiming that it was all a "trick of light and shadow."

A delightful coda for the film also shows that Noor-E smuggled his Martian Bigfoot princess bride with him back to Earth, where they settled near Mt. Shasta to raise half-robot / half-human / half-Martian Bigfoot babies.

Despite breathtaking animation and a unique script, test audiences deemed the film "too weird" and executives thought that the impending wave of "Noor-E" merchandise would not sell very well at all. As such, animators performed a "find/replace" function and removed Noory's head and the Martian Bigfoot from the film.