The life of the grasshopper

So when Lasseter happened to be at the Technicolor facility on the Universal lot, where DreamWorks was also located, he called Katzenberg and dropped by with a couple of colleagues. When Katzenberg asked what they were doing next, Lasseter told him. БЂњWe described to him A BugБЂ™s Life, with an ant as the main character, and told him the whole story of him organizing the other ants and enlisting a group of circus performer insects to fight off the grasshoppers,БЂ«Lasseter recalled. БЂњI should have been wary. Jeffrey kept asking questions about when it would be released.БЂ«Lasseter began to get worried when, in early 1996, he heard rumors that DreamWorks might be making its own computer-animated movie about ants. He called Katzenberg and asked him point-blank. Katzenberg hemmed, hawed, and asked where Lasseter had heard that. Lasseter asked again, and Katzenberg admitted it was true. БЂњHow could you?БЂ«yelled Lasseter, who very rarely raised his voice. БЂњWe had the idea long ago,БЂ«said Katzenberg, who explained that it had been pitched to him by a development director at DreamWorks ...»