Disney brought back the classic animated Genie from Aladdin for its new animated short.
In 2023, Disney is celebrating its 100th anniversary.
Not only that, but it will even feature crossovers that fans have only ever dreamed of.
So we reached out almost immediately to [Robin William’s] estate.
And we started sharing with them what we were up to.
And then what we did is we actually looked at outtakes.
Dan Abraham, our director, looked at outtakes from the recorded sessions and then chose those lines.
[Disney animator] Eric Goldberg is going to be part of this.'
So it was really a collaboration with them.
And us making sure that we were on the journey together.
It was like, we can’t make a 12-minute short in this amount of time.
So, it became like a balancing act of doing that.
So each shot had kind of that love.
One key element of many Disney animated projects is the musical elements.
But were more songs ever considered?
So it would be very hard to do musical numbers and still keep that pace that we have.
Oh, attempt to get this character.'
And there were some good story notes about making sure that we keep a drive alive within the short.
They were like, ‘Oh, you’ve got the option to put this character in there.
Oh, what about this?’
So it was a lot of fun.
Where Oswald actually tips his hat to Mickey, and Mickey says, ‘After you.’
That was literally–someone suggested that as one of our team members, yeah.
More Disney Crossovers to Come?
Seeing all of these classic characters interact in previously inconceivable ways scratches an itch many never realized they had.
Hopefully, fans wont have to wait another hundred years before some more crossovers like this happen again.
Once Upon a Studiowill make its Disney+ debut on Monday, October 16.
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