It's interesting to note the rewrites that Chicken Little also had. From my own research Chicken Little was originally going to be about an anxious chicken girl going to a summer camp to overcome her anxiety. There's a rather emotional deleted scene from this version that shows that the father does care about his kid and that the mother was also alive being the voice of reason for the father.
@@newbiegamelover4767 th-cam.com/video/Gf3gyzMnR1o/w-d-xo.html Here's a good video that showcases the father interacting with his daughter Chicken Little
I bet Disney has regrets about cancelling this movie, considering that they now pretend Chicken Little doesn't exist because it wasn't the huge success they had envisioned
I think they should put this movie back into production. Especially when you consider that Wreck-It Ralph was originally a cancelled film from the 90s called High Score.
Also Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
Chicken Little was only a moderate success at the box office. Yet even before Disney bought Pixar, they decided on their own that they shouldn't be making Sherk-like stories, which was why they overhauled Tangled that was still deep in production at the time.
I'm sad we will never get the original animation. even if disney were to remake this from scratch, you just know the animation would be all 3D and not nearly as stylized. I miss when movies could get really experimental and creative like this :(
@magni Nothing in the OP's comment say that Disney was the one being experimental. The OP said, "I miss when movies could get really experimental and creative like this"
Same.... but who knows. My favorite Disney movie is 'Beauty and the Beast'. You know it was created originally by Walt, then suddenly archived several varios works and reworks after reworks of the script that was in some storage facility. He made several in fact for Beauty and the Beast throughout his life, but kept throwing them into storage. Why??? Because he couldn't get it to not sound or be boring by the second act. When the people who did write the Beauty and the Beast we know found these scripts. They began using concept he made and making notes, to create the one we know today. They worked through the challenges that Disney himself couldn't. If I recall he even had tried starting people working on it several times, before canceling it, cause he never could get over hurtles in theboriginal tail and make it excitingn or worth the watch. This in itself gives me hope that movies like this, Me & My Shadow, BOO (I secretly was looking forward to that one when I heard of it in 2011 the whole Casper consept in books and movies always apeals to me), etc... May actually be picked up within a decade or even several decades from now, slightly reworked to make it work for the existing audiences and will be picked up again. To be honest, its people like us. If we make our way into the industry that can change it and help bring these projects back. Our generations are capable of this. If enough get into the industry and get enouhh people behind us to state "we want to revive a project" and find ways to fix/solve what the excutives may have been worried about and could be worried about. We may have something. I mean get the original involved if you can. And make soemthing new from it. Retooling only where needed. You never know. There are so many projects that are now beloved classics that had this very thing happen to them. Sometimes it takes a project being set down, then looked at again with fresh eyes years later for it to be realized again. I mean just look at Harry Potter for example. JK tooknover tennyeara to find someone who saw its potential to get it published. An entire decade past, it took fresh eyes of a new decade to get it into production. Just the same thisncan happen to films. For all we know it may come to happen one day.
Thank you for talking about this. Similar to Newt, I've heard a lot about the movie but never seen a full disclosure on the movie's plot. All I've "heard" prior to this is that the movie was in production with delays, but was thrown out the window last minute for Chicken Little and the company shut down.
@@Turbs94945 I think it was gonna be called "American Dog" or something. If you want you can look it up theres a video of that movie thats like 27 seconds long so.
@@Turbs94945 Originally Bolt wasn't going to be an animal actor who believed his superpowers were real, but rather knowing he was an actor but believing the life-threatening situation he ends up in is part of a reality show he's guest starring in.
Hopefully one of these days they could put it back into production like they did with Wreck-it Ralph. For those who don't know Wreck-It Ralph's production went as far as back as a 90s and was originally titled High Score but it later on got canceled.
I would love to see something like this made now it would work a lot better than in the early 2000s, the idea of dolls and humans interacting sounds awesome
Disagree. Seems boring af. At least chicken little looks good and is rather entertaining. The art style is interesting but that doesn’t necessarily make it good.
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
@@Venom-rr1vg In April 2003 David Stainton stated he had put two high-profile projects, Chicken Little and My Peoples, on hold because he said they needed more focus. "There's a point in every movie where the whole thing falls apart, that moment where you look at it and say, 'We have to retrench,' " Stainton said. "It was that time."
I really like the way the CGI/doll characters looked. Like, I get that wasn't their final renders and I feel like the movie probably wouldn't have handled the non-white (coded?) characters properly, but I think the designs have a lotta charm. Or maybe I'm just tired of Disney's current copy+paste CGI faces and Pixar's recent 5/10 character design.
Ikr I wish Disney would experiment more with character design like with how Pixar tried to make Luca look like a Studio Ghibli movie instead of making the characters look the same from movie to movie, Raya and Moana are almost the same character
@@redpanda6497 and was that before they finalised on her design and they continued using that infamous earlier design was on most promo material and merchandise before they changed it to the final one from the film.
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
It really does. I thought Chicken Little looked like a terrible movie when it first came out and I haven't changed my mind since then. The canceled movie would have been a lot better.
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
Some folks will tell you that it just came down to the fact that “Chicken Little” had far better name recognition than “My Peoples.” Which is why Disney then decided to press ahead with production of that Mark Dindal movie rather than continuing with Barry Cook’s film. Despite his project being canceled in favor of Dindal’s, Cook harbored no ill will against his former officemate. “I have nothing against Mark,” says Cook. “He’s been a great friend for a long time, and he’s a very talented director.” Besides, Cook knew Dindal could certainly relate to some of his recent experiences. For instance, Dindal had to rework his original idea for Chicken Little, which once involved a female version of the title character being forced to attend Camp Yes-U-Can after the infamous “sky is falling” debacle.
This movie looks like something that should be picked up by Tim Burton or Henry Selick. This would be amazing in stop-motion. Gives me major Coraline vibes and should be treated as so.
"Set in Appalachia Texas..." Did a bit of a double take there seeing as the Appalachian Mountains pretty much end around TN/GA and definitely don't reach Texas. There's also nowhere in Texas called Appalachia from what I can see. 🤔 Really glad you covered this one seeing as I read about it over ten years ago and always felt like it was some sort of fever dream I imagined. I always thought it had one of the most interesting concepts!
Ahaha I live in the Pennsylvania section of the Appalachian mountains and was very confused about that too! When I first heard Appalachia, I figured it would likely be the more Southern end, but not as far south as Texas! 😂
@@bookwormkiara5468 I live in the TN area of the Appalachian mountains so was very confused! I checked a map to be sure I wasn't misremembering. 😂 When I think Appalachia I definitely have an idea in mind, and Texas is not it. No harm no foul tho, just funny the reaction I had. Had me seriously confused for a hot second!
the "appalachia texas" really confused me too, cuz i'm also from around the appalachian mountains (north carolina) and i was really worried i'd gotten my geography way wrong lol! i get a lot of appalachian vibes from the movie, but no texas ones
Oh my gosh, decades ago I got to visit the animation studio at Walt Disney World with my family. What we saw there included art and little mock ups of the craft characters. The Abraham Lincoln one was the only one I remembered. We were all sworn to secrecy. So this is what happened...I always wondered...
The Romeo-Juliet twist is probably inspired by the romance between RoseAnne Mccoy and John Hatfield (who pulled a dick move on her in the end). But most folks don’t know about the hatfield-mccoy feud. I was actually pleasantly surprised that FiM had an episode based on their feud. I myself only learned about their feud through a parody from The Andy Griffith show.
I love Angel character design wish this movie could still be made and i think it could with some rework the humans as 2d and the dolls as 3d is so refreshing and interessing
Chicken little is decent, it's not the worst thing in the entire world. Just be glad it's not emoji movie level bad, I really liked Chicken Little tbh, I found it funny and entertaining to watch as a kid.
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
I wouldn’t take much issue with The Emoji Movie if it were just another bad kids movie like Norm of The North, but The Emoji Movie’s big issue (for me) is how shamelessly it celebrates smartphone culture!
I never liked Chicken Little that much, but I kinda dislike it more once I discovered how it originally was going to be like... and also how it replaced THIS super interesting and looking flick.
Yeah I loved it personally growing up but I can see why ppl aren't as fond of it next to other Disney/Pixar stuff. I'm also not salty towards it after watching this video, as it sounds like both films would've existed side by side had those new execs didn't drop the "CG only" mandate or whatever for the movies being produced by that studio
This old CGI animation looks amazing despite being unfinished. Chicken Little looks pretty lousy at the same time. I think Disney bet on the wrong horse.
Well this isn't the 1st time Disney bet on the wrong horse. Back when Pocahontas and The Lion King were in production, Disney put the A-Team on Pocahontas and the B-Team on The Lion King because they thought Pocahontas would be a huge hit.
WOW. THAT VOICE CAST. Dolly Parton. Lou Rawls. Ashley Judd. Travis Tritt… I’m imagining what an EPIC soundtrack this movie could have had - had it remained in the 1940’s setting. Bluegrass is TOTALLY underrated. Country/Blues/Bluegrass could have been AMAZING. (Other than “Home on the Range” and older shorts like “Pecos Bill” Disney hasn’t done much with Country music themed soundtracks. I’m kind of a sucker for old school country/bluegrass music.)
Honestly I kinda liked Chicken Little. That being said, I think I would've enjoyed this movie more. The topic is so interesting and the character designs of the dolls are so cute! Really wish it could come back (and that if it somehow did, it wouldn't be butchered)
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
Asking because I'm genuinely curious: Outside of Kubo and the Two Strings, has "inanimate object possessed by dead relative" ever worked in a children's movie?
isn't there that kids movie about the dad who dies driving home in a snowstorm and possesses a snowman for a while with his son to spend some final time together. there are likely more but that 1 came to mind initially.
It is kind of shame that this movie got canceled since it seems rather creative and is apart of a culture that’s not really represented in media (at least well) that said I’m kind of glad it didn’t happen since it would be rife with really bad characterization. The fact that the main cast would be dolls that represent very different cultures, races, and ethnicities already walks a fine line which I don’t think the 90s could have done. Also the characters seem to also be caricatures which definitely wouldn’t have been done right either.
Honestly i wish Disney would reboot in the modern age , though stuff like the live action Mulan makes me still worry about how Disney whould handle the culture, honestly i think Disney peaked at Lilo & Stitch when it comes to different cultures.
The 90s wouild by far handle it better than current Disney would. Nowadays they only produce bad stereotypes and since they pander to China heavily they would include minorities only so to be able to delete or censor them later. Not to mention that most complaining of movies in the past comes from white middle age obese female twitter users and unrelevant "news" sources and not actual minorities. See the movie Coco which is placed in Mexico which mexican people loved while white americans deemed it as r*cist.
Nobody of importance thought Coco was racist. Just ignore Twitter, who threatens rape/death to to those having opinions or writing a story. People of all colours and races liked the film. SJWS are a group of losers who think everything is racist/sexist/anti-trains etc. If you ignore Twitter, these people vanish.
Admittedly I can see how Chicken Little might have seemed to have more potential. Too bad they ballsed that one up. If both were released, I can see this being the superior film, but perhaps not one I'd like a whole lot (but certainly better than Chicken Little)
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
TBF it seems like any mythology that isn't Greek (or Egyptian) don't get any attention here in the West (obviously in the East, they focused on their own mythology). Which sucks because I would really love to see a story inspired by or based upon Native American mythology.
TBF Cartoon Saloon has been bringing Celtic mythology stories into the main stream a lot more recently with “Secret of Kells” “Song of the Sea” and most recent, “Wolf Walkers” there’s also “My Father’s Dragon “ which isn’t confirmed if it’s based on Celtic mythology yet but there’s a high likelihood. There’s also “Brave” from Pixar which, although not as critically acclaimed, had some interesting Celtic mythology inspiration as well.
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
Appalachia... Texas. I'll give you a pass for not being from the US, but Texas is as far from the Appalachian region (not a city) as Ukraine is from the Alps.
I imaginet that in one draft of the story the dolls where designed after real people from the past. Hense why there's multiple concept sequences of the dolls as real people or the real people in the plot looking like the dolls. And it would also make the random abe Lincoln fit in slightly more
It may only be because it was the first Walt Disney feature animation (and 3rd film overall) I ever saw theatrically, but I still unironically enjoy Chicken Little. But yet I'm still interested in My Peoples, wondering what could have been for that film. I at least think that if Barry's film released, something would probably arise about how Abe looks like Fender from Robots, or the other way around.
Disney hit a rough patch around the early 2000s when other studios were making more money and they were trying to compete with them and transition into CG but they did it pretty badly with several box office flops around this time, I love Treasure Planet and Atlantis though
A: you are pronouncing Appalachia wrong B: Texas is no where near Appalachia C: the story is probably inspired by the actual Appalachian story of the Hatfields and McCoys
I wouldn’t say that Chicken Little isn’t a BAD movie, and not a good movie ether, because there some, umm… things about it, but, all I do know, is that, there is a positive message behind its, umm… Uncanny Valley, so, yeah. It’s mediocre at best, and when I rewatched it on Netflix a couple months ago, I felt the tears of nostalgia coming from my eyes, because I do remember having a little, umm… “Chicken Little” costume back like, a decade ago. Yeah, everything aged horribly, in the animation department, but cut it some slack because it was an early CGI movie, and it’s kinda good. Tho, personally, I’d like some retakes on the script, or, maybe a sequel if possible (which, I have my doubts that, THAT’S a possibility) but only to flesh out some things about, the Chicken Little world. Anyways, I think I rambled enough about a movie that doesn’t live up to it’s true potential for more than 1 reason, so, I think I’m just gonna end things here, now, I think I might want to give it another watch in the next 5 years, to see how poorly it aged and if it even deserves the *Cough* Disrespect *Cough* it has, but, I know a video like that will be done before I do it, but that will be on my idea, and straight after I watch the movie, so my opinions can be there at that moment, but still, this movie isn’t good, isn’t bad, but just, OK
Actually the bubbles specifically were animated by an overseas company (chinese I think), they almost didn't make the deadline and the little mermaid almost went without bubbles. I don't blame them for being late though, just thinking about having to animate thousands of bubbles makes my toes curl.
One movie I've been curious about is the Rent-A-Hero movie, based on an obscure Sega franchise of the same name, it was announced around the same time as the Detective Pikachu movie (I think) and nothing more has been revealed since then. What's weird about this movie is that Rent-A-Hero is a Japanese-exclusive series.
That would have been interesting. I love me some old Sega characters that rarely get used. That game, if I recall was done by Yu Suzuki, the same guy who made Hang On, After Burner, and of course, Shenmue, which is getting its own Anime series coming next year which I'm excited about.
I wouldn't be terribly thrilled about the idea of Romeo and Juliet parody myself, but a lot of people would have probably preferred this to Chicken Little. You're British???
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
whooo boy I'm glad that native doll didn't get greenlit, disney has an uhhh track record with native characters in that time period lmao. I REALLY like the animation on abe lincolns mouth though? It reminds me a lot of the robot from treasure planet
Also for anyone else wondering, Aardman Animations are the people behind 'Wallace and Gromit' and the one I (and probably you) knew them for was 'Chicken Run'. Though also 'Flushed Away' which ended their DreamWorks partnership.
@@_Fizel_ Oh really? I thought it was DreamWorks because it's more ahead of it's time (even if you watch Chicken Run now it's ahead of it's time). That makes me have alot of respect for BOTH companies tho ^u^ even more respect for Aardman now like woah
@@_Fizel_ of course I heard about the sequel, chicken run is my second favorite movie ever. I'm kinda sad because they're not bringing back the original people for the main characters.
James Carville also has a cameo in the live-action comedy Old School. He immediately became known for having a pretty charming personality politically so I think that's why the crossover to entertainment.
Lou Rawls's movie soundtrack work came after his heyday. He was a major soul vocalist in the 1970's, best remembered for the 1976 mega-hit "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine."
8:45 I know I'm getting older and all, but I remember going to _The Muppet Movie_ on its original theatrical release, and it really doesn't seem like that was as far back as 1939.
Maybe not montagues and capulets, but more like hatfields and McCoy’s, a feud that still exists to this day(actually it was technically over by 2000, for an inter family reunion).
Fun fact: The closest thing to Angel being in an actual movie is a small cameo in Meet The Robinsons (2007), when Bowler hat guy was telling D0-R15' backstory, Angel appears in one of the domes in which Lewis' failed inventions are when D0-R15 is thrown in one of them.
I remember this I meet an animator how work on this when in elementary school for job application day he inspired me to want to learn about and how animation. I'm 17 and I hope I can make it my dream job. But there was no voice for the scene
This movie would have worked a lot better if it was made now, by the end of the 90s and the early 2000s there was a transitional period for animation that was trying to emulate Pixar and Dreamworks which was seen as more revolutionary than Disney and something like this would have been seen as too risky, it's a shame a movie like this with cultural representation we haven't seen before got the axe
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
@@kittykittybangbang9367 theres nothing wrong preferring this to chicken little. The end result is not what you wrote bcs its scrapped. No need to defend chicken little its just a fictional movie ffs
I wish that we could see what this movie could have become. Disney’s starting to run out of ideas so bringing this back from the ground up would be nice.
I’m disappointed about Chicken Little, they lied in the trailer, and my sister and I were looking forward to “and I’m about to scream like a little girl” from the dad.
I don't know if this movie would have been good because it just seems like a weird storyline because it's the Hatfields and the McCoys but with weird dolls? Like I just don't know where the story was suppose to go. And the problem is because the creator pitched it to Disney while working there, they own, like he can't even go somewhere else and make it because Disney's locked it away in a vault. I will say the idea of meshing tradition and cg animation did look very nice, especially for the time.
It's curious that both movies had been developed in some way by Disney decades before. The Martins and the Coys from 1954 had that Romeo and Juliet take on the Hatfields and the McCoys that this movie starts with and Chicken Little was released as a short in 1943 but with an adaptation that referenced WWII.
I get EarthBound style vibes from My Peoples. Everything's so delightfully weird and quirky. Not to mention that kind of representation would have been nice. Kind of wishing it had been chosen over Chicken Little, all things considered
I'm genuinely devastated this movie was canned in favor of the horrid Chicken Little. The Angel character is adorable and the dolls coming to life idea was really fun and creative. I would pay good money to watch this.
Unfortunately this is insanely unlikely. It's not based off another property and Disney will vault this one up until they die (which will likely be when the sun swallows us up entirely). I can see a scenario where Disney is struggling for money (somehow) far far far into the future and they auction off properties like this, but we'll be long dead by then
Gosh i remember seeing the preview footage for this movie now having seen Abe again. Lord this def was one of Disney's biggest misfires, somebody should reignite it.
I'd love to see this concept. Probably with less characters though. I love angel and miss spinster. They could totally revamp the story to be more somber and full of purpose. I'm thinking maybe angel, being a proposal gift, ended being left in an attic when her creator and his lover disappear. Generations later angel gains the ability to move after years of wanting to find out what happened. She of course discovers that the families never made up. But now there's two kids that go to school together. They want to be friends but because their parents are enemies they keep being pulled away and scolded. So Angel bands up with other sentient creatures to try and get these families together once and for all. Where the original lovers went can be worked out (eloped? Fell ill? Gave up? Who knows) or simply left to be a mystery. Honestly, Pixar needs to get back to what they were originally good at. A set of worlds interconnected. This movie is perfect for that. Sentient objects = toy story tie in. American south = bugs life and end of Monsters Inc. Some of the humans can be descendants of Merida's family. Etc. This movie had the potential to be good, especially with the multi-medium aspect of 3D in a 2D world. They just really over did it with the cast, which in my opinion muddied it. Simplify the story and cast and add in some more of that interconnected world building and you've got a decent Disney/Pixar flick. Also, Dolly as Angel would have one hell of a musical number.
Lily Tomlin (Miss Spinster in this movie) was also Ms. Frizzle in the original Magic School Bus series. (She was also considered for Edna Mode in The Incredibles before they decided to just keep Brad Bird's voice.) Also Lou Rawls did about half of the songs for the Garfield specials in the 80's and 90's (usually as Garfield's singing voice, although sometimes those were sung by his speaking voice Lorenzo Music).
It's things like this that make me slowly resent 3D animation more and more. 2D just has so much life to it and having this mixture would have been wonderfully experimental! But nope 3D is cheaper so we're gonna do only CGIanimation movies for the next 10 years
With the struggle they have with the real life movies I think Disney should try dumpster diving. They have some things they trashed that could be some hidden treasures.
I agree with the directors I can't tell what this cancelled movie was to be about(yes I watched the video), for chicken little anyone can see what its about. Big difference.
I would actually like to see this project completed. The way the 2d and the CG is done just blends perfectly for that scene that was shown. This is definitely something Pixar would work on if it ever got off the ground again. Unfortunately, it most likely will not because of Toy Story being more popular and has characters like this in this project. Disney should at least allow Pixar to do a short of this at least.
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It's interesting to note the rewrites that Chicken Little also had. From my own research Chicken Little was originally going to be about an anxious chicken girl going to a summer camp to overcome her anxiety. There's a rather emotional deleted scene from this version that shows that the father does care about his kid and that the mother was also alive being the voice of reason for the father.
Why couldn't they go with that? That actually sounds compelling!
@@newbiegamelover4767 th-cam.com/video/Gf3gyzMnR1o/w-d-xo.html
Here's a good video that showcases the father interacting with his daughter Chicken Little
@@ursascorner4865 Now, that's adorable.
@@newbiegamelover4767 idk what Disney was thinking throwing out this storyline?
@@ursascorner4865 Someone should make a fan-cut out of these scenes and turn it into a better movie
I bet Disney has regrets about cancelling this movie, considering that they now pretend Chicken Little doesn't exist because it wasn't the huge success they had envisioned
chicken little was a success (in box office) and it was the only reason why pixar still makes movies for disney
I think they should put this movie back into production. Especially when you consider that Wreck-It Ralph was originally a cancelled film from the 90s called High Score.
Also Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
Chicken Little was only a moderate success at the box office. Yet even before Disney bought Pixar, they decided on their own that they shouldn't be making Sherk-like stories, which was why they overhauled Tangled that was still deep in production at the time.
@@kittykittybangbang9367 This sounds better and far less mean-spirited than what we ended up getting
I'm sad we will never get the original animation. even if disney were to remake this from scratch, you just know the animation would be all 3D and not nearly as stylized. I miss when movies could get really experimental and creative like this :(
What about Spider-Man into the spider-verse, the willoughbys, and the Mitchells vs the machines?
@magni Nothing in the OP's comment say that Disney was the one being experimental. The OP said, "I miss when movies could get really experimental and creative like this"
"Poochie, you just made a date with Gucci!"
Honestly, that line is absolute fire
here for it, wish they could bring this concept back (with some less prolematic elements) for that line alone
Same.... but who knows. My favorite Disney movie is 'Beauty and the Beast'. You know it was created originally by Walt, then suddenly archived several varios works and reworks after reworks of the script that was in some storage facility. He made several in fact for Beauty and the Beast throughout his life, but kept throwing them into storage. Why??? Because he couldn't get it to not sound or be boring by the second act. When the people who did write the Beauty and the Beast we know found these scripts. They began using concept he made and making notes, to create the one we know today. They worked through the challenges that Disney himself couldn't.
If I recall he even had tried starting people working on it several times, before canceling it, cause he never could get over hurtles in theboriginal tail and make it excitingn or worth the watch.
This in itself gives me hope that movies like this, Me & My Shadow, BOO (I secretly was looking forward to that one when I heard of it in 2011 the whole Casper consept in books and movies always apeals to me), etc... May actually be picked up within a decade or even several decades from now, slightly reworked to make it work for the existing audiences and will be picked up again.
To be honest, its people like us. If we make our way into the industry that can change it and help bring these projects back. Our generations are capable of this. If enough get into the industry and get enouhh people behind us to state "we want to revive a project" and find ways to fix/solve what the excutives may have been worried about and could be worried about. We may have something. I mean get the original involved if you can. And make soemthing new from it. Retooling only where needed.
You never know. There are so many projects that are now beloved classics that had this very thing happen to them. Sometimes it takes a project being set down, then looked at again with fresh eyes years later for it to be realized again.
I mean just look at Harry Potter for example. JK tooknover tennyeara to find someone who saw its potential to get it published. An entire decade past, it took fresh eyes of a new decade to get it into production.
Just the same thisncan happen to films. For all we know it may come to happen one day.
@@colorgaurdsweethreat3474 I'm not reading that
@@alex.g7317 That's k. Only those who want to will read it.😜
@@colorgaurdsweethreat3474 is there a summary version by any chance??
Thank you for talking about this. Similar to Newt, I've heard a lot about the movie but never seen a full disclosure on the movie's plot. All I've "heard" prior to this is that the movie was in production with delays, but was thrown out the window last minute for Chicken Little and the company shut down.
Did you do the history of Bolt?
That’s an interesting development story.
What was it originally gonna be?
@@Turbs94945 I think it was gonna be called "American Dog" or something. If you want you can look it up theres a video of that movie thats like 27 seconds long so.
@@Turbs94945 Originally Bolt wasn't going to be an animal actor who believed his superpowers were real, but rather knowing he was an actor but believing the life-threatening situation he ends up in is part of a reality show he's guest starring in.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio huh. So, the opposite plot.
So the angel became alive and didn't want to be a proposal gift? Kind of like Toy Story 4 with Forky.
*angel
I really wish that Disney never cancelled this movie. 😔😔😔
Hopefully one of these days they could put it back into production like they did with Wreck-it Ralph. For those who don't know Wreck-It Ralph's production went as far as back as a 90s and was originally titled High Score but it later on got canceled.
I perfer chicken little because it’s my childhood.
@@Tepig-ge7sl What about alternate universe you?
I would love to see something like this made now it would work a lot better than in the early 2000s, the idea of dolls and humans interacting sounds awesome
@@greenghoul157 it definitely does.
The cancelled movie does look superior to Chicken Little and Chicken Little wasn't even that bad
hello mr everywhere
Nahs. Chicken Little is one of Disney's worst. It's mean-spirited. Tries too hard to be Shrek. And it's not funny.
@@Capydapy here in Latin America, we people love the movie unlike other movies. It was the childhood of lots, myself included
Disagree. Seems boring af. At least chicken little looks good and is rather entertaining. The art style is interesting but that doesn’t necessarily make it good.
@@Capydapy I absolutely love that movie, and I don't get how you think it was like shrek at all? It was quite the opposite
Imagine hearing the movie you and your squad were developing got replaced by a movie called chicken little
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
@@kittykittybangbang9367 You've sent this a million times already
@@Venom-rr1vg In April 2003 David Stainton stated he had put two high-profile projects, Chicken Little and My Peoples, on hold because he said they needed more focus. "There's a point in every movie where the whole thing falls apart, that moment where you look at it and say, 'We have to retrench,' " Stainton said. "It was that time."
I really like the way the CGI/doll characters looked. Like, I get that wasn't their final renders and I feel like the movie probably wouldn't have handled the non-white (coded?) characters properly, but I think the designs have a lotta charm. Or maybe I'm just tired of Disney's current copy+paste CGI faces and Pixar's recent 5/10 character design.
And the infamous Elsa face syndrome. Don't forget about that.
Ikr I wish Disney would experiment more with character design like with how Pixar tried to make Luca look like a Studio Ghibli movie instead of making the characters look the same from movie to movie, Raya and Moana are almost the same character
Probably would've been funnier if the Abe Lincoln doll was the shortest imo, could make for some fun sight gags
@@redpanda6497 and was that before they finalised on her design and they continued using that infamous earlier design was on most promo material and merchandise before they changed it to the final one from the film.
I wish this movie had been made. Even if it flopped, at least it would have had a more interesting story than Chicken Little did.
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
"Poochie, you'll get a date with Gucci" FUCK IT, BEST LINE EVER
I laughed so hard when I heard it
Wow that’s sad. People pour their hearts into these projects and boom: cancelled.
The cancelled Disney movie looks way better than Chicken Little.
Probably so but man I’m probably blind nostalgia but I kinda like it
It really does. I thought Chicken Little looked like a terrible movie
when it first came out and I haven't changed my mind since then.
The canceled movie would have been a lot better.
Chicken little was fucking amazing
@@TheEverythingGuyz Yeah, your nostalgia blinded.
I can't tell what this cancelled Disney movie was about
its like lady and the tramp who tf knows whats going on? Are the dogs going to fuck1?
Imagine an alternate reality where instead of Chicken Little, A Few Good Ghosts was released
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
They should have went with My Peoples I don't know why the name kept changing
@@greenghoul157 they could have even mixed it, 'a few good people' or 'people of the ghost moon' also sound nice.
Some folks will tell you that it just came down to the
fact that “Chicken Little” had far better name recognition than “My Peoples.” Which is why Disney
then decided to press ahead with production of that Mark Dindal movie rather than continuing with Barry Cook’s film. Despite his project being canceled in favor of Dindal’s, Cook harbored no ill will against his former officemate. “I have nothing against Mark,” says Cook. “He’s been a great friend for a long time, and he’s a very talented director.” Besides, Cook knew Dindal could certainly relate to some of his recent experiences. For instance, Dindal had to rework his original idea for Chicken Little, which once involved a female version of the title character being forced to attend Camp Yes-U-Can after the infamous “sky is falling” debacle.
This movie looks like something that should be picked up by Tim Burton or Henry Selick. This would be amazing in stop-motion. Gives me major Coraline vibes and should be treated as so.
Yessir
"Set in Appalachia Texas..." Did a bit of a double take there seeing as the Appalachian Mountains pretty much end around TN/GA and definitely don't reach Texas. There's also nowhere in Texas called Appalachia from what I can see. 🤔
Really glad you covered this one seeing as I read about it over ten years ago and always felt like it was some sort of fever dream I imagined. I always thought it had one of the most interesting concepts!
Ahaha I live in the Pennsylvania section of the Appalachian mountains and was very confused about that too! When I first heard Appalachia, I figured it would likely be the more Southern end, but not as far south as Texas! 😂
@@bookwormkiara5468 I live in the TN area of the Appalachian mountains so was very confused! I checked a map to be sure I wasn't misremembering. 😂 When I think Appalachia I definitely have an idea in mind, and Texas is not it. No harm no foul tho, just funny the reaction I had. Had me seriously confused for a hot second!
I was very confused too
the "appalachia texas" really confused me too, cuz i'm also from around the appalachian mountains (north carolina) and i was really worried i'd gotten my geography way wrong lol! i get a lot of appalachian vibes from the movie, but no texas ones
Im so glad for this comment! I scrolled for a hot minute to find it lol
Oh my gosh, decades ago I got to visit the animation studio at Walt Disney World with my family. What we saw there included art and little mock ups of the craft characters. The Abraham Lincoln one was the only one I remembered. We were all sworn to secrecy. So this is what happened...I always wondered...
Well a story about the hatfields and McCoy’s with a Romeo and Juliet twist
The Romeo-Juliet twist is probably inspired by the romance between RoseAnne Mccoy and John Hatfield (who pulled a dick move on her in the end).
But most folks don’t know about the hatfield-mccoy feud. I was actually pleasantly surprised that FiM had an episode based on their feud. I myself only learned about their feud through a parody from The Andy Griffith show.
@@username-mk4qv There was an episode of Time Squad about, and House of Mouse/Mouseworks did their own version of it.
@@Pepperknight341 Flintstones did one too and I think there was an Arthur episode that had something similar.
Hey that’s my last name lol
With a dash of Toy Story in it.
I love Angel character design wish this movie could still be made and i think it could with some rework the humans as 2d and the dolls as 3d is so refreshing and interessing
Chicken little is decent, it's not the worst thing in the entire world. Just be glad it's not emoji movie level bad, I really liked Chicken Little tbh, I found it funny and entertaining to watch as a kid.
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
I wouldn’t take much issue with The Emoji Movie if it were just another bad kids movie like Norm of The North, but The Emoji Movie’s big issue (for me) is how shamelessly it celebrates smartphone culture!
I never liked Chicken Little that much, but I kinda dislike it more once I discovered how it originally was going to be like... and also how it replaced THIS super interesting and looking flick.
Yeah I loved it personally growing up but I can see why ppl aren't as fond of it next to other Disney/Pixar stuff. I'm also not salty towards it after watching this video, as it sounds like both films would've existed side by side had those new execs didn't drop the "CG only" mandate or whatever for the movies being produced by that studio
@@adultmoshifan87 any problem with Glorifying technology like phones ?
This old CGI animation looks amazing despite being unfinished. Chicken Little looks pretty lousy at the same time. I think Disney bet on the wrong horse.
Well this isn't the 1st time Disney bet on the wrong horse. Back when Pocahontas and The Lion King were in production, Disney put the A-Team on Pocahontas and the B-Team on The Lion King because they thought Pocahontas would be a huge hit.
If my peoples didn't get cancelled, it would be a iconic movie.
Idk, it seems like something that would of aged milk tbh.
I like Ms. Spinster she looks like a fun character. she also kind of looks like Granny from Hoodwinked.
WOW. THAT VOICE CAST.
Dolly Parton. Lou Rawls. Ashley Judd. Travis Tritt… I’m imagining what an EPIC soundtrack this movie could have had - had it remained in the 1940’s setting. Bluegrass is TOTALLY underrated.
Country/Blues/Bluegrass could have been AMAZING. (Other than “Home on the Range” and older shorts like “Pecos Bill” Disney hasn’t done much with Country music themed soundtracks. I’m kind of a sucker for old school country/bluegrass music.)
That would be cool, I just wish they could get a little bit of a different story tho... like, the toys-come-to-life thing is overused.
Honestly I kinda liked Chicken Little. That being said, I think I would've enjoyed this movie more. The topic is so interesting and the character designs of the dolls are so cute! Really wish it could come back (and that if it somehow did, it wouldn't be butchered)
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
@@kittykittybangbang9367 that's really interesting!! I didn't know that, but I wonder how that would've turned out
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Asking because I'm genuinely curious: Outside of Kubo and the Two Strings, has "inanimate object possessed by dead relative" ever worked in a children's movie?
Beauty and the Beast.. okay, technically they weren't dead yet.
@@suburbanbanshee They weren't possessing objects, just transformed into them.
isn't there that kids movie about the dad who dies driving home in a snowstorm and possesses a snowman for a while with his son to spend some final time together. there are likely more but that 1 came to mind initially.
@@Wildtrexkid I was asking if it's ever been done _well_ in a kids movie.
It is kind of shame that this movie got canceled since it seems rather creative and is apart of a culture that’s not really represented in media (at least well) that said I’m kind of glad it didn’t happen since it would be rife with really bad characterization. The fact that the main cast would be dolls that represent very different cultures, races, and ethnicities already walks a fine line which I don’t think the 90s could have done. Also the characters seem to also be caricatures which definitely wouldn’t have been done right either.
Honestly i wish Disney would reboot in the modern age , though stuff like the live action Mulan makes me still worry about how Disney whould handle the culture, honestly i think Disney peaked at Lilo & Stitch when it comes to different cultures.
The 90s wouild by far handle it better than current Disney would. Nowadays they only produce bad stereotypes and since they pander to China heavily they would include minorities only so to be able to delete or censor them later.
Not to mention that most complaining of movies in the past comes from white middle age obese female twitter users and unrelevant "news" sources and not actual minorities. See the movie Coco which is placed in Mexico which mexican people loved while white americans deemed it as r*cist.
@@BlackCroft666 When did white Americans deemed Coco as r*cist?
@@kittykittybangbang9367 twitter probably has twitter hates everything
Nobody of importance thought Coco was racist. Just ignore Twitter, who threatens rape/death to to those having opinions or writing a story. People of all colours and races liked the film. SJWS are a group of losers who think everything is racist/sexist/anti-trains etc. If you ignore Twitter, these people vanish.
Admittedly I can see how Chicken Little might have seemed to have more potential. Too bad they ballsed that one up. If both were released, I can see this being the superior film, but perhaps not one I'd like a whole lot (but certainly better than Chicken Little)
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
I wish they did that planned Tam Lin adaptation. Stories based on Celtic mythology aren’t common.
TBF it seems like any mythology that isn't Greek (or Egyptian) don't get any attention here in the West (obviously in the East, they focused on their own mythology). Which sucks because I would really love to see a story inspired by or based upon Native American mythology.
@@kittykittybangbang9367 The West has a Greek kink it’s so annoying. Even Egyptian stories don’t get as much attention
TBF Cartoon Saloon has been bringing Celtic mythology stories into the main stream a lot more recently with “Secret of Kells” “Song of the Sea” and most recent, “Wolf Walkers” there’s also “My Father’s Dragon “ which isn’t confirmed if it’s based on Celtic mythology yet but there’s a high likelihood. There’s also “Brave” from Pixar which, although not as critically acclaimed, had some interesting Celtic mythology inspiration as well.
@@blurryink115 *scottish
This movie would of been way better then Chicken Little, a shame that it never came out.
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
@@kittykittybangbang9367 why did they change this sounds so cute
@@digimonalvatrax2738 It was probably to capitalize on the "edgy humor" that Shrek popularized
Agreed.
Oh these families were based on the Hatfields and McCoys! It’s a wild family feud that is legendary and mythic in the south!
It feels like I'm looking at Toy Story before Toy Story.
Honestly, I wish Disney had sprung for this instead of Chicken Little.
I would have bought an Angel doll for sure.
Same she looks really pretty.
THIS was replaced by chicken little...
Let that sink in.
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
The canceled movie is most likely better than chicken little, not even saw the video yet and im predicting it
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
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I've always been curious about this movie. The character design are interesting and that CG/2D looks also quite unique at that time.
Appalachia... Texas. I'll give you a pass for not being from the US, but Texas is as far from the Appalachian region (not a city) as Ukraine is from the Alps.
I imaginet that in one draft of the story the dolls where designed after real people from the past. Hense why there's multiple concept sequences of the dolls as real people or the real people in the plot looking like the dolls. And it would also make the random abe Lincoln fit in slightly more
It may only be because it was the first Walt Disney feature animation (and 3rd film overall) I ever saw theatrically, but I still unironically enjoy Chicken Little. But yet I'm still interested in My Peoples, wondering what could have been for that film. I at least think that if Barry's film released, something would probably arise about how Abe looks like Fender from Robots, or the other way around.
I want to see A Few Good Ghosts A.k.a. My Peoples.
I think the only reason I like Chicken Little is nostalgia and nothing else
same
Yeah. That's why
Disney in the 2000s wasn’t the best for the company. So not surprised if there were cancelled stuff like this
I wish they made a movie called the things you wear on your feet sorry for any misspells.
I mean Disney sorry.
Still upset how dirty they did Atlantis and Treasure Planet.
Also Gargoyles.
It was by far better than current Disney though.
Disney hit a rough patch around the early 2000s when other studios were making more money and they were trying to compete with them and transition into CG but they did it pretty badly with several box office flops around this time, I love Treasure Planet and Atlantis though
A: you are pronouncing Appalachia wrong
B: Texas is no where near Appalachia
C: the story is probably inspired by the actual Appalachian story of the Hatfields and McCoys
I wouldn’t say that Chicken Little isn’t a BAD movie, and not a good movie ether, because there some, umm… things about it, but, all I do know, is that, there is a positive message behind its, umm… Uncanny Valley, so, yeah. It’s mediocre at best, and when I rewatched it on Netflix a couple months ago, I felt the tears of nostalgia coming from my eyes, because I do remember having a little, umm… “Chicken Little” costume back like, a decade ago. Yeah, everything aged horribly, in the animation department, but cut it some slack because it was an early CGI movie, and it’s kinda good. Tho, personally, I’d like some retakes on the script, or, maybe a sequel if possible (which, I have my doubts that, THAT’S a possibility) but only to flesh out some things about, the Chicken Little world. Anyways, I think I rambled enough about a movie that doesn’t live up to it’s true potential for more than 1 reason, so, I think I’m just gonna end things here, now, I think I might want to give it another watch in the next 5 years, to see how poorly it aged and if it even deserves the *Cough* Disrespect *Cough* it has, but, I know a video like that will be done before I do it, but that will be on my idea, and straight after I watch the movie, so my opinions can be there at that moment, but still, this movie isn’t good, isn’t bad, but just, OK
“Effects animator for little mermaid”
So was it his job to animate hundreds of bubbles
Actually the bubbles specifically were animated by an overseas company (chinese I think), they almost didn't make the deadline and the little mermaid almost went without bubbles. I don't blame them for being late though, just thinking about having to animate thousands of bubbles makes my toes curl.
One movie I've been curious about is the Rent-A-Hero movie, based on an obscure Sega franchise of the same name, it was announced around the same time as the Detective Pikachu movie (I think) and nothing more has been revealed since then. What's weird about this movie is that Rent-A-Hero is a Japanese-exclusive series.
What's rent a hero about?
@@kittykittybangbang9367 renting heros, probably
That would have been interesting. I love me some old Sega characters that rarely get used. That game, if I recall was done by Yu Suzuki, the same guy who made Hang On, After Burner, and of course, Shenmue, which is getting its own Anime series coming next year which I'm excited about.
Did I actually find Chicken Little to be okay? Yes
Am I still bummed that this wasn't made? Also, yes!
I wouldn't be terribly thrilled about the idea of Romeo and Juliet parody myself, but a lot of people would have probably preferred this to Chicken Little.
You're British???
1. I’m sure this would have been better than what we got with the lackluster Chicken Little.
2. Could you not tell by his accent?
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
@@kittykittybangbang9367 Okay, THAT definitely would have been better than what Chicken Little ended up as.
Gnomeo and juliet
whooo boy I'm glad that native doll didn't get greenlit, disney has an uhhh track record with native characters in that time period lmao. I REALLY like the animation on abe lincolns mouth though? It reminds me a lot of the robot from treasure planet
I swear sometimes Disney makes me mad, they decided to change a film that sounded really cute but then thought it was literally too human so no
Also for anyone else wondering, Aardman Animations are the people behind 'Wallace and Gromit' and the one I (and probably you) knew them for was 'Chicken Run'.
Though also 'Flushed Away' which ended their DreamWorks partnership.
Chicken Run is both DreamWorks and Aardman but yeah
nothing beats Chicken Run
@@jocelynecupcake DreamWorks only financed and distributed it. It had already been in production for a while. They didn't actually make it.
@@_Fizel_ Oh really? I thought it was DreamWorks because it's more ahead of it's time (even if you watch Chicken Run now it's ahead of it's time). That makes me have alot of respect for BOTH companies tho ^u^ even more respect for Aardman now like woah
@@jocelynecupcake Yeah. I love Chicken Run. They're currently making a sequel and I can't wait.
@@_Fizel_ of course I heard about the sequel, chicken run is my second favorite movie ever. I'm kinda sad because they're not bringing back the original people for the main characters.
McGhee? Harper? Dispute over a pig?
Definitely had influence from the real Hatfield and McCoy's
"Poochy, you just made a date with Gucci!" *proceeds to beat the dog doll with her purse* I'm dying over here! XD
Oh my goodness this is some incredible art. This might have been horrible, but, it's at least pretty.
I love how Abe's design looks like his Clone High counterpart
James Carville also has a cameo in the live-action comedy Old School. He immediately became known for having a pretty charming personality politically so I think that's why the crossover to entertainment.
Lou Rawls's movie soundtrack work came after his heyday. He was a major soul vocalist in the 1970's, best remembered for the 1976 mega-hit "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine."
8:45 I know I'm getting older and all, but I remember going to _The Muppet Movie_ on its original theatrical release, and it really doesn't seem like that was as far back as 1939.
Lily Tomlin also voiced Ms. Frizzle in The Magical School Bus.
Am I the only one old enough to remember her on _Laugh-In?_
Maybe not montagues and capulets, but more like hatfields and McCoy’s, a feud that still exists to this day(actually it was technically over by 2000, for an inter family reunion).
Fun fact: The closest thing to Angel being in an actual movie is a small cameo in Meet The Robinsons (2007), when Bowler hat guy was telling D0-R15' backstory, Angel appears in one of the domes in which Lewis' failed inventions are when D0-R15 is thrown in one of them.
I remember this I meet an animator how work on this when in elementary school for job application day he inspired me to want to learn about and how animation. I'm 17 and I hope I can make it my dream job. But there was no voice for the scene
This movie would have worked a lot better if it was made now, by the end of the 90s and the early 2000s there was a transitional period for animation that was trying to emulate Pixar and Dreamworks which was seen as more revolutionary than Disney and something like this would have been seen as too risky, it's a shame a movie like this with cultural representation we haven't seen before got the axe
there’s actually a rumour that this might come back on disney+
Well i can only dream
And it’s just that. A rumor, nothing more.
I wish there was a chance for Gigantic to come back on Disney+.
Absolutely deserved the spot over Chicken Little.
Fun fact: In an earlier version of Chicken Little, there would be no aliens and Chicken Little was a girl. The story would follow a female chicken suffering from paranoia who, as a result, caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but becomes unforgiven to her father. In order to build her confidence, she was sent to a summer school known as Camp Yes-You-Can where she met her friends who were the same as in the final product, although the Ugly Ducking was at this point a male. Unbeknownst to Chicken Little and her friends, the sheep who ran the camp were wolves in disguise who were plotting to eat all of the students. Chicken not must fave her fears to become a hero, but must proove her dad she can make him proud. A basic Coming-of-Age story that Disney later scrapped.
@@kittykittybangbang9367 theres nothing wrong preferring this to chicken little. The end result is not what you wrote bcs its scrapped. No need to defend chicken little its just a fictional movie ffs
God I wish this movie made the cut.
I wish that we could see what this movie could have become. Disney’s starting to run out of ideas so bringing this back from the ground up would be nice.
I’m disappointed about Chicken Little, they lied in the trailer, and my sister and I were looking forward to “and I’m about to scream like a little girl” from the dad.
Look up missing trailer scene on tv tropes in that case
"In about 3 seconds, I'm going to scream like a little girl"
What's with the trend of studios rejecting actually good idea in favor of obviously worse ones.
I don't know if this movie would have been good because it just seems like a weird storyline because it's the Hatfields and the McCoys but with weird dolls? Like I just don't know where the story was suppose to go. And the problem is because the creator pitched it to Disney while working there, they own, like he can't even go somewhere else and make it because Disney's locked it away in a vault. I will say the idea of meshing tradition and cg animation did look very nice, especially for the time.
It's curious that both movies had been developed in some way by Disney decades before. The Martins and the Coys from 1954 had that Romeo and Juliet take on the Hatfields and the McCoys that this movie starts with and Chicken Little was released as a short in 1943 but with an adaptation that referenced WWII.
I get EarthBound style vibes from My Peoples. Everything's so delightfully weird and quirky. Not to mention that kind of representation would have been nice. Kind of wishing it had been chosen over Chicken Little, all things considered
I really wished they had at least finished the movie. The setting, animation style, and plot was pretty unique.
I'm genuinely devastated this movie was canned in favor of the horrid Chicken Little. The Angel character is adorable and the dolls coming to life idea was really fun and creative.
I would pay good money to watch this.
Appalachia...TEXAS?
Somebody needs to break out the geography book. It only extends as far southwest as a small part of Mississippi.
I love the part where he used the same 2 animation snippets like 8 times in a row
theres not alot of footage for this film remember
i really hope this is gonna get remade with some indie company or something
Unfortunately this is insanely unlikely. It's not based off another property and Disney will vault this one up until they die (which will likely be when the sun swallows us up entirely).
I can see a scenario where Disney is struggling for money (somehow) far far far into the future and they auction off properties like this, but we'll be long dead by then
@@Fireberries yeah
Gosh i remember seeing the preview footage for this movie now having seen Abe again. Lord this def was one of Disney's biggest misfires, somebody should reignite it.
I wonder how revolutionary this would have been.
Super Paper Mario Crossed with Toy Story and Child's Play or Funny chicken Movie with the worst father Gendo Ikari himself fears.
I wander if the My Peoples movie will be picked back up like with what happened with the Nimona movie.
I feel like some of the characters could have gone through a few more redesigns. They remind me of some of the early Toy Story models.
where the flying fuck is Appalachia, Texas? the mountain range ends in Mississippi
I'd rather live in an alternative universe where Chicken Little got cancelled and My Peoples got made instead.
Idk if it’s only me but 11:34 reminds me so much of that one scene of Melman from the movie Madagascar
I'd love to see this concept. Probably with less characters though. I love angel and miss spinster.
They could totally revamp the story to be more somber and full of purpose. I'm thinking maybe angel, being a proposal gift, ended being left in an attic when her creator and his lover disappear.
Generations later angel gains the ability to move after years of wanting to find out what happened.
She of course discovers that the families never made up. But now there's two kids that go to school together. They want to be friends but because their parents are enemies they keep being pulled away and scolded.
So Angel bands up with other sentient creatures to try and get these families together once and for all.
Where the original lovers went can be worked out (eloped? Fell ill? Gave up? Who knows) or simply left to be a mystery.
Honestly, Pixar needs to get back to what they were originally good at. A set of worlds interconnected. This movie is perfect for that.
Sentient objects = toy story tie in.
American south = bugs life and end of Monsters Inc.
Some of the humans can be descendants of Merida's family.
Etc.
This movie had the potential to be good, especially with the multi-medium aspect of 3D in a 2D world. They just really over did it with the cast, which in my opinion muddied it.
Simplify the story and cast and add in some more of that interconnected world building and you've got a decent Disney/Pixar flick.
Also, Dolly as Angel would have one hell of a musical number.
Yesssss I was hoping for this one to be covered next. I'm so sad this was canned.
Lily Tomlin (Miss Spinster in this movie) was also Ms. Frizzle in the original Magic School Bus series. (She was also considered for Edna Mode in The Incredibles before they decided to just keep Brad Bird's voice.) Also Lou Rawls did about half of the songs for the Garfield specials in the 80's and 90's (usually as Garfield's singing voice, although sometimes those were sung by his speaking voice Lorenzo Music).
It's things like this that make me slowly resent 3D animation more and more.
2D just has so much life to it and having this mixture would have been wonderfully experimental! But nope 3D is cheaper so we're gonna do only CGIanimation movies for the next 10 years
i wish they revived this movie and bring it back again and at least have it as a disney+ film, i wish it wasn't canceled
Ngl but I’d kill for a my people’s retry instead of the soulless live action remakes we see out of Disney these days
All I hear is "One Little Slip" playing in the background. You KNOW you missed that opportunity.
8:01 I take it you didn't watch Magic School Bus when you were younger?
With the struggle they have with the real life movies I think Disney should try dumpster diving. They have some things they trashed that could be some hidden treasures.
I wouldnt mind living in a world where canceled films were made and the ones who did get made would be cancelled...
I agree with the directors I can't tell what this cancelled movie was to be about(yes I watched the video), for chicken little anyone can see what its about. Big difference.
I would actually like to see this project completed. The way the 2d and the CG is done just blends perfectly for that scene that was shown. This is definitely something Pixar would work on if it ever got off the ground again. Unfortunately, it most likely will not because of Toy Story being more popular and has characters like this in this project. Disney should at least allow Pixar to do a short of this at least.
That angel is adorable!
This is a very interesting idea. Once in a Blue Moon was not a bad title.