premise: Benji is an upcoming American drama film written, co-produced and directed by Brandon Camp. The film is a reboot of the 1974 film of the same name. It stars Gabriel Bateman and Darby Camp. Jason Blum is serving as a producer through his Blumhouse Productions banner and Universal Pictures is distributing the film.
hypothesis: Disney wanted to produce the film.
reason: Universal is producing the film, but we have no knowledge of how this came to be or other companies that wanted to.  Changing the pronoun fooled the system.