6/7/2023 0 Comments Chicken little![]() “I remember being told, ‘Girls will go see a movie with a boy protagonist but boys won’t see a movie with a girl protagonist,’” Dindal said. It’s like asking him to make a movie about African natives.” Dindal recalls that the suggestion was made, in part, due to some kind of market research that had been done by the studio (or at least that’s what they were telling the team). “There’s Mark with a couple of daughters and he as a director felt like I totally understand little girls, I know this. “Michael Eisner just said, ‘I don’t want it to be a girl, I want it to be a boy,’” Fullmer said in a separate interview with Collider. This version had been developed for a couple of years (“It had been boarded and finished,” with Penn Gillette cast as the lead wolf) when Michael Eisner, former Chairman and CEO of Disney, made a request … or rather, a demand. And she ends up saving the day,” Dindal said. “When she went there, the really friendly sheep counselors had been abducted and wolves-in-sheep-clothing had taken over with the very silly idea to plump the kids up to cook them at the end for a big wolf feast. Chicken Little wanted to make her dad proud, so she signed herself up for a summer camp (Dindal remembers the name being Camp Yesyoucan) to build her confidence. It was an acorn but in her mind it was the sky and it caused this big catastrophe in the town,” Dindal explained. “The initial one, she was a very nervous, anxious little kid who was prone to panic attacks and overreacting. “I have two daughters, so I immediately went to a father/daughter story,” Dindal said. Soon, a plot was hatched: this version would be all about Chicken Little (to be voiced by Oscar-winner Holly Hunter) and her relationship with her father ( Garry Marshall). He then quickly admitted: “The early days on that are a little cloudy.” We pretty much started on it right away,” Dindal said in an exclusive interview with Collider looking back on the project. “I think maybe that there was that idea of this time the sky really is falling popped into my head on a drive home. This time they would base it on the European folklore of Henny Penny, known here as Chicken Little, who thinks the sky is falling because they are standing under an acorn tree. ![]() They had done massive work overhauling a previous version of The Emperor’s New Groove and wanted to keep the irreverent spirit of that project but apply it to a concept that was all theirs. Shortly after the release of their equally fraught The Emperor’s New Groove, director Mark Dindal and producer Randy Fullmer embarked on a new project.
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