Walt assigned his story people Dorothy Blank (who had worked on Snow White) and Al Perkins to come up with a treatment that adhered closely to the original story.Īfter deceptions, disguises, and last minute escapes, Reynard is eventually captured and brought to the King who sentences him to be hanged for his many crimes.Īt the end, on the gallows, Reynard confesses that his father once tried to overthrow the King….with the help of the Wolf. Another appealing aspect for Walt was that the Reynard stories were in public domain so he would not have to pay any royalties. Reynard was put into development as a possible animated feature film as early as 1937. They were used as moral tales for children and parodies of medieval literature as well as biting political satire for adults. Reynard is a group of French, Dutch and German fables, novels and poems by multiple authors (the most well known version is by Goethe) collected around the eleventh century. In the 1930s, Walt Disney was interested in two French properties, Reynard the Fox and Chanticleer but both presented story challenges because of generally unsympathetic main characters.Ĭhanticleer was a 1910 play by Edmond Rostand who also wrote Cyrano de Bergerac and Walt initially liked the idea of doing a big barnyard comedy with a cast of pretentious roosters and chickens in fancy feathers with lots of sight gags perhaps as a reminder of his Silly Symphonies series.
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