Specifically, a cymbal-playing monkey, a critter that even made it ... In 2010, the Lee Unkrich-directed Pixar Animation Studios feature Toy Story 3 featured an adversary in the form of a cymbal ...

Unfortunately, the on-screen version of this jolly ape was already used in Toy Story 3, and Disney owns the copyright. Fortunately, Perkins was informed before production on The Monkey began.

The Monkey writer/director Osgood Perkins explains how his unique experience with people dying in weird ways funneled into ...

But Perkins couldn’t have them because apparently Disney had copyrighted a monkey playing cymbals for “Toy Story 3.” “They own Darth Vader and they own the cymbals,” Perkins says.

This monkey plays a drum because the crashing cymbals were trademarked by The Walt Disney Company in 2010 for a character in “Toy Story 3,” and anything that looked too close would be ...

because of [the toy monkey in] ‘Toy Story,’” Perkins explained. “It’s one of those things where a limitation becomes an opportunity. If you are making movies and you are not up for that ...

including one bad-intentioned toy monkey, not a cymbal-crasher as in King’s story but a drummer with a vengeance. Each time the monkey’s mechanical key is turned, someone — anyone ...