‘Animal Crackers’ Netflix Debut Caps a Harrowing Legal Ordeal
Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterIt has been a long six years since Scott Sava persuaded some Chinese investors to give him $13.5 million to make an animated film.An illustrator from Franklin, Tenn., Sava had written a graphic novel for his twin boys about a magic box of animal crackers, and he wanted to adapt it to the screen. Since then, he has been sued twice, represented himself in court against Hollywood bulldog Marty Singer (with predictable results), gotten entangled in Ryan Kavanaugh’s bankruptcies, and was threatened with the loss of his house.Ultimately, he was forced to turn over the film to an angry seafood distributor.After all that, “Animal Crackers” is finally landing on Netflix at midnight on Thursday.