The Emperor’s New Groove
I actually liked Emperor’s New Groove. The animation style was so different from
most Disney films that it made the movie stand out for me. I also liked the modern humor.
Heck, I think David Spade was prefect as the asshole
Emperor. Patrick Warburton is brilliant
as the henchman.
After doing some research, I had no idea the movie had
such a troubled production.
Notes about the production
Kingdom of the Sun (Kingdom in the Sun): Roger Allers was the original film director.
There seems to be a lot of information about the troubled production throughout
the Internet. The
original plans for the movie were to have the Emperor switch places with a
peasant. The witch turns the
real Emperor into a llama and controls the peasant. Musician Sting even
went as far as writing some songs for this version of the film.
The film received some test screenings, which in turn had
poor test scores. So, Disney brought in another director to work on the movie.
This was after roughly 50% of the movie was drawn and filmed. Allers left the
production after pressure from the studio.
That was when the movie had a complete overhaul.
Another story about the production deals with two
directors on the film. Roger Allers and Mark Dindal both worked on the
film. IMDB states that Allers and
Dindal didn’t get along just started making different versions of the film,
ouch.
I would love to see that older version of the film.
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