I was the person who brought
Mars Attacks! (1996) to the attention of the studio. They were bubblegum cards I had as a kid. I developed
Mars Attacks! (1996) with
Jon Davison, the producer of
RoboCop (1987), for quite a while, but at some point my project got shut down and it was given to
Tim Burton. It was a bit of a shame, but I think both the script that I wrote and the
Tim Burton one suffered from not being enough like the bubblegum cards.