Reynard tricks the bear into going after honey and the bear gets badly stung. When he does not show up in court for his trial, the King, who is a Lion, sends a huge bear to bring in the scoundrel. The fox was an unrepentant villain and trickster, known for his many disguises and quick wits and was charged with many crimes. Another appealing aspect for Walt was that the stories of Reynard 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.īecause of the popularity of the Reynard stories, renard became the standard French word for "fox," replacing the old French word for "fox," which was goupil. 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 11th century. 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 gags perhaps as a reminder of his Silly Symphonies series.
It centered on a vain rooster who thought his crowing each morning caused the sun to rise.
In the 1930s, Walt 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 it was meant to be a satirical commentary on society using talking animals as surrogates. They all came from a 1960 proposed animated feature film that would have recounted the story of two well-known French characters that Walt obtained decades earlier. Did you ever wonder why the Disney Studios made an all-animal version of the legend of Robin Hood with such appealing character designs or where some of the Audio-Animatronics figures like the fancy dressed singing chickens in the America Sings attraction (that were later used in Splash Mountain) originated?
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