Michael Eisner was Disney’s CEO during the late 1980s. Eisner was a big fan of J.D. Salinger’s novel Catcher in the Rye, so much so that he wanted Disney to adapt the novel into a movie. However, film producer Don Hahn told Eisner the cold hard truth that Salinger was never going to sell the rights of his book to anybody. But Eisner was persistent, proposing to do an animated film that dealt with similar themes from Catcher in the Rye but replace the original book characters with German Shepherds instead. It was to be an animated movie titled Dufus, but evidently, the film never made it out of the production studio.
