Aero (cancelled feature-length film)

Aero is an unproduced Universal computer-animated feature film that was to be based on the studio's 2000 Academy Award-winning computer-animated short film of the same name. The project was announced in 2001 by Universal following the successful release of the original short, but was later shelved by the studio when Universal Digital Images merged into Feature Animation during the production of its first CGI animated feature film Computeropolis for 2004.

It is unknown whether Universal will again start developing a feature-length film adaptation of the short.

Plot
The rest of the plot for the film is unknown, but it was likely to follow the plot of the original short, where the short's protagonist Aero attempts to befriend a teenage girl named Luna until things have gone wrong.

Production
The film was announced in 2001 by Universal Pictures. Amy McNeill, the director and writer of the short, was set to write and direct the film. However, the film never got into production so it was scrapped for unknown reasons, but possibly due to problems with the film's script and the fact that they cannot do anything new with the two characters, Aero and Luna. This is also likely due to Universal Digital Images being merged into Universal Feature Animation during the production of its first CGI animated feature film Computeropolis for 2004.

After the film's cancellation, many fans were disappointed about the cancellation of the film, even though they hope that Universal will bring Aero back.

Trivia

 * Like most Universal animated films, the film would most likely have had spoken dialogue while the original short lacked it, in the vein of the 2009 Tim Burton-produced animated film 9 which was distributed by Universal under Focus Features.
 * Had it been released, it would have been the feature-length directorial debut of Amy McNeill; that goal was later accomplished by Lix in 2017.