Quite a few readers of the blog sent me emails about the Redux Riding Hood project.
Celbi Pegoraro sent me the URL of an article he wrote (in Portuguese) a while back on Animagic about that same subject and that clarifies, among other things that:
Jack and the Beanstalk was directed by Peter Tolan ("Larry Sanders") and seem to have stopped in post-production and that Three Little Pigs with a script by Frank Coniff seems to have been completed but never released, not even in festivals.
Jenny Lerew posted a comment that mentioned:
I freelanced some storyboarding on Three Little Pigs for Darrell Rooney (I was working at Turner feature animation development at the time, where I'd met Darrell). I believe Ricky Nierva, now at Pixar, and Scott Morse (also up there at Pixar) did freelance boards too (Ricky, who is a brillaint young designer, might have done the character designs as well--I'm not sure--can't remember).
I never saw the finished product, either, though--why Disney never released them is a mystery to me, but they were having a kind of rollercoaster of management at that time, and perhaps a new exec in charge couldn't see a venue for them. They were at one point supposed to be released on a home video(now it'd be a DVD, of course). I'd be surprised if they stayed unseen forever.
I can't remember what the "4th" film was...hmmm...it's about 10 years ago now."
Redux was written by Dan O'Shannon, a television writer known for his work on Cheers and many others shows. I did not direct Jack and the Beanstalk, but I did write it. I remember very little about the process, but somewhere in my home or in storage, tucked away in a box, is a VHS of the finished short. I thought it was quite good, but as someone else has mentioned, Disney seemed not to know what to do with these shorts.
ReplyDeleteI think George Carlin was one of the voices in Jack. Other than that, I don't remember a thing.
Peter Tolan