Katzenberg moved the opening of "Antz" from spring 1999 to October 1998 to compete with Pixar's release. David Price writes in his 2008 book "The Pixar Touch" that a rumor, "never confirmed", was that Katzenberg had given PDI "rich financial incentives to induce them to whatever it would take to have "Antz" ready first, despite Pixar's head start". Jobs was furious and called Katzenberg and began yelling. Katzenberg made an offer: He would delay production of "Antz" if Jobs and Disney would move "A Bug's Life" so that it did not compete with "The Prince of Egypt". Jobs believed it "a blatant extortion attempt" and would not go for it, explaining that there was nothing he could do to convince Disney to change the date. Katzenberg casually responded that Jobs himself had taught him how to conduct similar business long ago, explaining that Jobs had come to Pixar's rescue by making the deal for "Toy Story", as Pixar was near bankruptcy at that time. "I was the one guy there for you back then, and now you're allowing them to use you to screw me," Katzenberg said. He suggested that if Jobs wanted to, he could simply slow down production on "A Bug's Life" without telling Disney. If he did, Katzenberg said, he would put "Antz" on hold. Lasseter also claimed Katzenberg had phoned him with the proposition, but Katzenberg denied these charges later.