Connected (former version of The Mitchells vs. The Machines)

Leaked title card since 2020-2021.

Note: This should not be confused with the released film The Mitchells vs. The Machines because it was previously programmed with this title.

In March 2020, a trailer for a film called Connected was released to the public (the original version of what is now known as The Mitchells Vs The Machines). It was originally planned to release in theaters. And it was originally scheduled to release in October 2018, then it was pushed to October 2020.

Plot

The plot was be the same as The Mitchells vs. The Machines, only that the title was going to be different.

Development

No development revealed for particularly Connected, but it was previously known under this title and was already about to release with it having a planned cast among other things.

Why This Version Was Cancelled

1. The director of the movie, Michael Rianda, was not impressed with the original title.
2. The Netflix executives thought the title "Didn't make sense".
3. After Sony sold the rights to Netflix, the title had to be changed as well.
4. Rianda said the studio thought the Mitchells title felt more B-movie.

Results

• The film was reworked into 2021's The Mitchells Vs. The Machines, which became a critical success and praised for its outstanding hybrid animation, humor, and characters.
• Despite the cancellation for the previous title, the trailer for Connected is still up on the Movieclips Trailers/Rotten Tomatoes Trailers channel.
• Other than Connected, the film's artbook shows it was first pitched with the title Control.Alt.Escape.
• Connected was permanently cancelled. And after the film's rights were sold to Netflix, Connected would not be released to theaters.

Trivia

• Two scenes that were in the Connected trailer did not make it into the final film, both were scenes that consisted of bathroom humor. The first being a scene where Aaron uses a porta-potty and Rick saying "Did you wash your hands?" and he responds "Don't worry, I never do!"-while this one did appear, Aaron did not mention this phrase neither did Rick. Secondly, a scene where a man is using a AI toilet, he gets blasted out by the toilet up to the roof when the toilet says "sayonara" (which means "goodbye" in Japanese); this one didn't appear in the final film at all.
• Connected was supposed to originally be distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing and be released in theaters October 23, 2020. However, as mentioned earlier, the surging rise of coronavirus cases in 2021 made Rianda sell the rights to Netflix instead and re title the film to The Mitchells vs. The Machines. After that, the film got its original title The Mitchells vs. The Machines back again and no longer released theatrically.

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