Disney Couldn’t Solve Its Strangest Animation

Disney spent years trying to solve one of its strangest animated movies. Then they canceled it. The result was King of the Elves - a forgotten Disney Animation project based on a Philip K. Dick story that kept changing, shifting, and disappearing until it became one of the studio’s strangest canceled films. Best known as the author behind Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report, Dick was not an obvious fit for Disney Animation. But during the studio’s post-Renaissance identity crisis, King of the Elves survived multiple versions, release plans, and creative resets before vanishing just as Disney found its future with movies like Tangled and Frozen. Why couldn’t Disney figure out what King of the Elves was supposed to be? And how did one strange little fantasy from one of science fiction’s darkest writers become a Disney animated movie that almost existed - until there was almost nothing left to release? WANT MORE BURIED DISNEY & PIXAR HISTORY? Click here to discover why PIXAR’S AXED FANTASY FILM WAS ITS DARKEST:    • Pixar’s AXED Fantasy Film Was its DARKEST   Art from The Art of Aaron Blaise https://creatureartteacher.com Art from Armand Baltazar's Portfolio https://armandbaltazar.com/works Art from Scott Watanabe's Portfolio https://www.scottwatanabeart.com Art from Erin Shin's Portfolio https://erinshin.com