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* Aside from the aforementioned Hans Christian Andersen movie mentioned above, Disney had been attempting different projects based on ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'' dating back several decades. In the 2000s, they attempted a project that got as far as having several storyboards and models posted online. It was meant to be an AllCGICartoon where the Snow Queen was a monarch who froze all her potential suave-but-phony suitors and became both a literal and figurative DefrostingIceQueen once she met a true-hearted man, Kai. The obsessive focus on expanding the role of the Snow Queen herself derailed many attempts at the story over the years. One of the Eisner-era pitches involved aging up the children and making Kai/Snow Queen the main pairing and depicting Gerda as a shallow GoldDigger villain. Despite having much less involvement in Disney films at the time than he had in the 1980s and 90s, the Snow Queen seemed to be Eisner's pet project - he offered his support to the project and even suggested doing the film with John Lasseter at Pixar Animation Studios once the two studios got their contracts renewed. Furthermore, Alan Menken and Glenn Slater were originally tasked with writing the songs. One of those songs, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVADjGMBnMs Love Can't Be Denied]]," received a public release before Menken left the project. Disney ''finally'' settled a version that they liked, which became ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''.

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* Aside from the aforementioned Hans Christian Andersen movie mentioned above, Disney had been attempting different projects based on ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'' dating back several decades. In the 2000s, they attempted a project that got as far as having several storyboards and models posted online. It was meant to be an AllCGICartoon where the Snow Queen was a monarch who froze all her potential suave-but-phony suitors and became both a literal and figurative DefrostingIceQueen once she met a true-hearted man, Kai. The obsessive focus on expanding the role of the Snow Queen herself derailed many attempts at the story over the years. One of the Eisner-era pitches involved aging up the children and making Kai/Snow Queen the main pairing and depicting Gerda as a shallow GoldDigger villain. Despite having much less involvement in Disney films at the time than he had in the 1980s and 90s, the Snow Queen seemed to be Eisner's pet project - he offered his support to the project and even suggested doing the film with John Lasseter at Pixar Animation Studios once the two studios got their contracts renewed. Furthermore, Alan Menken and Glenn Slater were originally tasked with writing the songs. One of those songs, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVADjGMBnMs Love Can't Be Denied]]," received a public release before Menken left the project. Disney ''finally'' settled on a version that they liked, which became ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''.



* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' director Stephen J Anderson's last film pitch at Disney was ''Nyx'', a story of the [[ClassicalMythology goddess of night]] dealing with the dawn of artificial light in the early 20th century. After several drafts and a failed table read, the project fell apart.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' director Stephen J Anderson's last film pitch at Disney was ''Nyx'', a story of the [[ClassicalMythology [[Myth/ClassicalMythology goddess of night]] dealing with the dawn of artificial light in the early 20th century. After several drafts and a failed table read, the project fell apart.

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