Could it have been saved? John Hughes pondered that question. Like Reell’s leaders, he had waited until the last minute to order a layoff out of fear that it would destroy the culture he had worked so hard to build. “And, well, you know, instead we’re in bankruptcy,” he said in his Life After Pi interview. “So I ended up destroying Rhythm & Hues anyway. So, you know, maybe I should have done something along those lines in order to have tried to preserve Rhythm & Hues.”
