This is a list of unmade and/or unreleased animated projects byThe Walt Disney Company. These include feature films, short films, and television series/specials, stemming fromWalt Disney Animation Studios,Pixar,Disney Television Animation, and other animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company. Some of these projects stem from simplyWalt Disney Pictures.
| Contents: | 1930s:1933 · 1934 · 1935 · 1936 · 1937 · 1938 · 1939 |
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| Series | Title | Description |
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| Feature film | Alice in Wonderland | The first attempt to produce an animated film adaptation of theclassic novel of the same name written byLewis Carroll. The film would be the first theatrical animated feature-length film of Disney. It was planned to be acombination of animation with live-action.Mary Pickford was attached to star asAlice.[1] However, the project was scrapped in favor ofSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In 1939, there was a second attempt to produce the animated film. Following the success ofSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney purchased the film rights to Carroll's book withSir John Tenniel's illustrations.[2] A script and some storyboards were made by David Hall, as well as aLeica reel, but the project never materialized due toWorld War II. Twelve years later, afilm based on the novel was released by Disney. |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mickey Mouse | "Hillbilly" "Mickey the Hillbilly" "Hillbilly Mickey" | Pete the moonshiner mistakes Mickey for a revenue agent, and Minnie Mouse appears as a hillbilly girl.[3] |
| "Station Agent" | Mickey works at a train station, where he encounters a troublesome kangaroo. During the development of the cartoon, the kangaroo was dropped in favor of an ostrich. At one time, Mickey was supposed to help Donald with the ostrich, before he was omitted from the plot altogether in favor of the duck. The original kangaroo elements ended up in "Mickey's Kangaroo", which was released in 1935, minus the train station. Probably at the same time as Mickey was dropped from the cartoon, the film (now starring Donald Duck) was renamed "Donald's Ostrich", which was released in 1937.[4] | |
| Pluto | "The Good Samaritan" | Pluto rescues a baby puppy that wrecks the house of his black mistress. A short with this plot was made forHouse of Mouse.[5] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Vaudeville Show" | Mickey is a magician with a hat. Donald and Pluto are his helpers. Donald is frustrated and wants to expose Mickey's act. The magic act is followed by agrand opera, featuring Mickey, Donald,Clara Cluck, and Pluto, and exposing the hat again. During the development, this was split into two cartoons, since the plot was considered too thick for a standard short, and it became "Mickey's Magic Hat". During the development of the former short, Donald was downgraded from Mickey's helper to a frustrated spectator role. It was released in 1937 as "Magician Mickey". Somewhere during the development after the split, "Mickey's Grand Opera" was produced first and kept most of the original elements, and it was released in 1936.[4] |
| "The Sea Monster" "Mickey's Sea Monster" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are pitted against a comic sea serpent.[6][4] | |
| Silly Symphonies | "The Emperor's New Clothes" | A proposedSilly Symphony based onHans Christian Andersen's story about two weavers who promise an emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent.[7] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mickey Mouse | "Davy Jones' Locker" "Pearl Divers" | Mickey goes undersea treasure hunting.[8] |
| "The Deer Hunt" | Mickey sets out to hunt deer in a story that was supposed to feature all of the same plot elements as in the released cartoonThe Pointer in 1939.[4] | |
| "Desert Prospectors" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy discover a ledge of 19-karat gold in the desert with the aid of an automatic gold-finder, which has been constructed by Goofy. However, the machine goes berserk when it gets too close to Donald's gold belt buckle, attacking the duck and ultimately exploding a stick of dynamite. The trio of prospectors are left in tattered disarray.[9] | |
| "The Emperor's New Clothes" | When theSilly Symphony failed to materialize, Mickey Mouse was brought into the story and the concept was developed as either a short or featurette. At one point, Donald and Goofy were also considered for inclusion in the plot.[10] | |
| "The Love Nest" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are interior designers who set up a honeymoon cottage forHorace Horsecollar andClarabelle Cow.[9] | |
| "Mickey's Bakery" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy bake an enormous cake for Mrs. Vandersnoot's reception.[11] | |
| "Mickey's Sunken Treasure" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy go treasure hunting and end up on a desert island.[8] | |
| "Mickey's Treasure Hunt" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy go treasure hunting on a shipwreck.[8] | |
| "Navy Mickey" also known as "Mickey in the Navy" | Mickey joins the Navy, where he encounters a bulldog admiral.[12] | |
| "North West Mounted" "Royal Mounted Police" "Mickey of the Mounted" "Mickey Gets His Man" "Mickey the Mountie" | Black Pete kidnaps Minnie Mouse and tries to force her to disclose the location of her secret gold mine. Intrepid mountie Mickey gives chase, but is hampered in his search by the antics of his gluttonous horse Tanglefoot.[9] | |
| Silly Symphonies | "Snowbabies" | A proposedSilly Symphony, a sequel to "Water Babies", and a sequel/prequel to "Merbabies". The babies are now playing in the snow instead of water.[13] |
| "Struebel Peter" "Slovenly Peter" | A proposedSilly Symphony featuring Peter, an unruly boy who delights in tormenting animals. The animals, in the end, take their revenge. | |
| Silly Symphonies Mickey, Donald & Goofy | "The Three Bears" "Goldie Locks and Three Bears" | (Version 1:) A proposedSilly Symphony of the well-known children's story. Model sheets prove that Goldilocks was planned to resemble and possibly be voiced byShirley Temple. Papa Bear was modeled afterW.C. Fields.[14] (Version 2:) When the proposedSilly Symphony short failed to materialize, Donald was cast as Goldilocks while Pete, Goofy, and Mickey were cast in the roles of the Three Bears.[14] |
| Silly Symphonies | "Timid Elmer" "Elmer's Light o Love" | A proposed sequel to the Elmer ElephantSilly Symphony. Elmer has to watch helplessly as Tillie Tiger's ballet arts of Granville inspires Goat. When trouble comes, Goat runs away and Elmer has to save Tillie.[4][9] |
| Feature film | Peter Rabbit | A proposed animated film based on thePeter Rabbit books written byBeatrix Potter. However, she refused Walt Disney's offer to make the film.[15] 82 years later,Columbia Pictures produced alive-action/CGI film adaptation version.[16] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Duck | "Interior Decorators" | Donald and his assistantGus Goose are entrusted with the renovation of a villa. Donald encounters a throbbingcuckoo clock. Had this film been completed, it would have been the debut of Gus Goose.[4][9] |
| "Lumberjack Donald" | Donald gives the orphans a how-to lesson on how to cut down a tree. A different lumberjack Donald Duck cartoon was eventually titledTimber and released in 1941.[4] | |
| "Nightwatchman Donald" | Donald is a night watchman in a store, in which he has to deal with a playful monkey.[9] | |
| Mickey, Donald & Goofy | "Clock Tower" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy open a shop to fix clocks. They are tricked by Pete into fixing Big Beth. All of these elements were dropped in favor of cleaning Big Beth. The Big Beth element was kept and released in 1937 as "Clock Cleaners".[4] |
| Mickey Mouse | "The Dog Show" | Dropped elements from a released cartoon titled "Society Dog Show", including the original title. Pete was originally considered for the role of the judge. The Good Housekeeping page suggested that Donald helps Mickey prepare Pluto for the show, but the studio record did not match the Good Housekeeping page.[4] |
| Mickey, Donald & Goofy | "The Janitors" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy work in a store, cleaning it overnight.[17] |
| "Jungle Mickey" | (Version 1:) Mickey is a solonewsreel photographer in darkest Africa.[18] (Version 2:) Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are newsreel photographers in darkest Africa.[18] | |
| "The Legionaires" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy join theFrench Foreign Legion.[11] | |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Follies" | (Not be confused with the 1929 short of same name) a large and ambitious projected short featuring nearly all of the original Disney characters, including Mickey and the gang, as well as some of the more popularSilly Symphonies characters, in a grand musical revue.[12] This eventually formed the basis of theMickey Mouse Revue show atWalt Disney World'sMagic Kingdom. |
| "Sargasso Sea" | Mickey Mouse visitsAtlantis.[8] | |
| Silly Symphonies | "Japanese Symphony" | (Version 1:) Originally planned as a story, set in Japan, featuring a moth rescued from a bat.[19] (Version 2:) A romantic story about two Japanese children, which was stalled in production.[19] |
| "Minnehaha" | A proposed sequel to "Little Hiawatha", featuring Hiawatha's female counterpart, a little Indian girl named Minnehaha. Little seems to be known about the actual plot.[20] | |
| Feature film | Reynard the Fox The Romance of Reynard | Walt Disney originally considered producing an animated film featuringReynard the Fox, but the project was cancelled because he felt that Reynard might be an unsuitable choice for a hero. Four decades later Reynard served as the inspiration for themain character in the 1973 Disney animated filmRobin Hood.[21] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Duck | "The Delivery Boy" | Donald has to deliver a mechanical doll to a doll museum, and another package to another destination. Pluto was considered at one point to be included to help Donald with his job.[4] |
| "Donald Munchausen" | Donald tells his nephews a tall tale a laBaron Munchausen, about his adventures as aNational Geographic photographer in Africa. He claims to have discovered a lost world of prehistoric creatures, and to have beatenKing Kong in feats of strength.[9] | |
| "Donald's Shooting Gallery" | Donald attracts his nephews to the shooting range, by offering a box of chocolates as a prize. This proposed Donald Duck short was, in theory, an alternative story to the finished 1947 cartoon "Straight Shooters".[9] | |
| "Lost Prospectors" | Donald and Gus Goose are prospectors lost inDeath Valley. Tortured by heat and thirst, they trek across the barren terrain in search of water. They encounter various mirages, including a group of Lorelei ducks lounging by a swimming pool. One of the girls sips a cool drink and beckons to them. While Donald investigates, Gus, with the aid of his lucky derby hat, discovers a strange capricious laughing spring and is able to quench his thirst. Donald tries to trap the elusive water, but is unable to get a drop.[4][9] | |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Beach Picnic" | Mickey, Goofy, and Pluto have a rough day at the beach.[4] |
| Donald Duck | "The Rubber Hunter" | Donald travels to South America in order to obtain a particularly rare species of raw rubber for new tires for his car.[9] |
| Mickey Mouse Donald Duck | "Yukon Mickey" "Yukon Donald" | (Version 1:) Mickey discovers that a mischievous baby walrus has been stealing food from his cache. Chasing the little thief, he runs afoul of the walrus' giant father. When Mickey tries to placate papa walrus with a fish, the baby walrus steals it.[22] (Version 2:) Donald discovers that a mischievous baby walrus has been stealing food from his cache. Chasing the little thief, he runs afoul of the walrus' giant father. When Donald tries to placate papa walrus with a fish, the baby walrus steals it.[22] |
| "Mickey's Nephews" | A Christmas story, in which Mickey would have played Santa for the orphans.[23] | |
| "Mickey's Toothache" | Mickey inhaleslaughing gas and enters a nightmare world where he is threatened by dental equipment. As part of the nightmare Pete appears and attacks Mickey.[18] | |
| "Movie Makers" | Mickey is an amateur filmmaker in Hollywood, and Donald and Pluto set out to help him make films.[4] | |
| "Pilgrim Mickey" | Mickey is apilgrim setting out to hunt a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.[24] | |
| "The Salvagers" | (Version 1:) Mickey and Donald go treasure hunting in the deep blue sea.[8] (Version 2:) Mickey and Pluto go treasure hunting in the deep blue sea. This version of the film's plot came about when the Mickey and Donald story failed to materialize.[8] | |
| "Spring Cleaning" | An attempt to bring back Bobo the Elephant from "Mickey's Elephant". Mickey is a servant, where he and Pluto clean Minnie Mouse's garden.[25] | |
| "Tanglefoot" | Mickey goes to the race track, where he encounters a horse withAllergic rhinitis.[26] | |
| "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" | Mickey playsCaptain Nemo in an undersea adventure.[8] | |
| Pluto | "Pluto's Robot Twin" | Mickey builds a robot dog to keep Pluto company, but the robot goes out of control. Pluto has to fight the robot to regain control of the household.[27] |
| Silly Symphony Featurette | "Snow White Returns" | A sequel featurette toSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).[28] |
| Feature film | Penguin Island | This proposed feature was about a fictitious island ofgreat auks that exists off the northern coast of Europe. The story begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk accidentally lands on the island and sees the great auks as a sort of Greek pre-Christian pagan society. Partially blind, he mistakes the animals for people and baptizes them. |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Duck | "The Beaver Hunters" | Donald and Pluto go hunting for beavers, but the wily rodents foil them, even though Donald disguises himself as a tree and uses ingenious weapons, such as a rifle that fires a plumber's helper.[9] |
| "Donald's Elephant" | Bobo becomes Donald's pet.[4] | |
| "Donald's Outboard Motor" | Donald has trouble with a boat motor. The plot was considered too thin, as it was one of two cartoons to be merged into the released cartoon "Put-Put Troubles".[4] | |
| "Donald's Stratosphere Flight" | Donald has problems repairing and launching hishot air balloon.[9] | |
| "Haunted Castle" | Donald camps outside a spooky castle but, when a strong wind blows his tent up into the air, Donald lands inside.[4] | |
| "Museum Keeper" "Old Masters" "Donald and the Old Masters" | Donald is a museum keeper guarding a priceless collection of paintings. Some of the "paintings" in this unmade short feature Donald in various classic artworks.[29] | |
| "Tree Surgeon" | (Version 1:) Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are tree surgeons.[30] (Version 2:) Donald and Goofy are tree surgeons. Goofy asks for his doctor's tools as he bandages an unseen "patient"... really a tree. Donald and Goofy struggle to dope trees with laughing gas while various forest animals fight back. Eventually, Donald and Goofy inhale the laughing gas themselves, leading to a dizzy ballet around the woods and a bad fall for Donald into somepoison ivy. Donald needs the next round of Goofy's bandages.[30] | |
| Mickey Mouse | "Balloon Race" | Mickey, Minnie, Horace, and Clarabelle participate in a balloon race against Black Pete.[9] |
| "The Band Concert" | A remake of an earlier short ofthe same name.[4] | |
| "Ice Antics" | A remake ofOn Ice.[4] | |
| "Mickey's Man Friday" | A remake of an earlier short of the same name.[4] | |
| "Mickey's Revival Party" | An umbrella name for a project to revisit and remake several older Disney shorts.[4] | |
| "Miracle Master" | Mickey becomes master of a magic lamp. The genie of the lamp continually shocks Mickey and his friends in the real world.[4] | |
| "Morgan's Ghost" "Pieces of Eight" "Three Buccaneers" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find a treasure map and try to follow it to the end, while at the same time trying to evade Pete. At one point, story was considered for upgrading to a feature film project. Elements of this unmade project were saved for the Donald Duck comic book storyDonald Duck Finds Pirate Gold.[31] | |
| "Mountain Carvers" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy as artisans attempting to carve out their own version ofMount Rushmore.[32] | |
| Pluto | "Pluto and the Springs" | Pluto has trouble with a worm at the springs. The plot was considered too thin, as it was one of two cartoons to be merged into the released cartoon "Put-Put Troubles".[4] |
| "Pluto's Pal Bobo" | Pluto and Bobo are rivals for Mickey's attention, which is focused on a howdah that he built.[4] | |
| Silly Symphonies | "The Flying Mouse" | A remake of an earlier short ofthe same name.[4] |
| "Grasshopper and the Ants" | A remake of an earlier short ofthe same name.[4] | |
| "Lullaby Land" | A remake of an earlier short ofthe same name.[4] | |
| "Santa's Workshop" | A remake of an earlier short ofthe same name.[4] | |
| Short film | Abdul Abulbul Amir | The story of two valiant heroes, a Russian, Ivan Skavinsky Skavar, and one of the Shah's mamelukes, Abdul Abulbul Amir, who, because of their pride, end up in a fight and kill each other.[7] |
| Jabberwocky | The nonsense world ofLewis Carroll is brought to life in this short.[7] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Duck | "Traveling Salesman Donald" | Donald is a traveling salesman who cons bartender Pete into buying a phony pearl, then becomes the victim of Pete's energetic revenge. The tables are turned when Pete accidentally knocks down a pillar supporting the second story of his saloon and must hold up a heavy safe to keep from being crushed. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Men in Uniform" | Mickey is a milkman who is foiled by a small kitten.[33] |
| Short film | Penelope and the Twelve Months | A proposed short film featuring a young girl who travels through time with the aid of a magicgrandfather clock.[34] |
| Fantasia | Fantasia segments | After the release ofFantasia, Walt Disney originally planned to have the film in continual release, but with new segments with replacing the older ones. However, the idea was scrapped afterFantasia failed at the box office and the idea was never revisited for the remainder of Disney's lifetime, although he produced spiritual successors such asMake Mine Music (1946) andMelody Time (1948).[35] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Duck | "Calling Dr. Duck" | Donald is a tree surgeon. The plot is very similar to the earlier "Tree Surgeon".[30] |
| Donald & Goofy | "Ditch Diggers" | Donald and Goofy work in construction for Pete.[36] |
| Donald Duck | "Sculptor Donald" | Donald enters a contest for the bestwax sculpture, but his nephews sabotage his statue with ablow torch.[9] |
| Health for America | "Public Enemy No. 1" | An unproducedHealth for America educational short about how flies spread disease. The plot of this film is very similar to "The Winged Scourge".[37] |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Elopement" | Mickey tries to help Minnie escape her stern Uncle Mortimer's house so he can get her to a quickie wedding chapel.[30] |
| Feature film | Chanticleer | A rooster believes his crowing makes the sun rise.[38] |
| Don Quixote | A man named Alonso Quixano (or Quijano), a retired country gentleman nearing 50 years old, lives in an unnamed section ofLa Mancha with his niece and a housekeeper. He has become obsessed with books of chivalry, and believes their every word to be true, despite the fact that many of the events in them are clearly impossible. Quixano eventually appears to other people to have lost his mind from little sleep and food, and so much reading. He decides to become aknight-errant, and with his fat, food-loving, squireSancho Panza, sets out on an hilarious misadventure.[39] | |
| The Hound of Florence Inspector Bones | Based on the novel byFelix Salten (who was also the author ofBambi, a Life in the Woods), the story is about a detective who turns into a dog. The dog detective in "Inspector Bones" was a direct parody ofBasil Rathbone's role in theSherlock Holmes films, which were very popular in the 1940s. Inspector Bones and Dr. Beagle are pitted against either Professor Mongrel ("The Mad Dog of London") or Sir Cyril Sealyham. The story would have featuredTex Avery-style self-referential jokes. The project later inspired the 1959 live-action comedyThe Shaggy Dog.[40] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Duck | "Donald's Tank" | While cleaning an armored tank, Donald accidentally explodes somegrenades near his sergeant, Black Pete. To escape Pete's wrath, he takes off in the tank, crashing through the officer'smess and separating a general from his T-bone steak. Donald's problems are compounded when an experimental television monitor inside the tank is activated, and he confuses its telecast for scenes of the passing terrain. Straying across the French line, he spoils a surprise attack on Adolf Hitler'sPanzer division.[9] |
| "Guerilla Duck" | A continuation of Donald's wartime exploits has him trying to intercept a Japanesetroop carrier.[41] | |
| "Madame XX" | On a mission to deliver secret plans to the war office, private Donald Duck is waylaid by aGarboesque foreign spy Madame XX. She steals the plans and escapes in a motorboat, but Donald pursues her and ultimately recovers the stolen plans.[42] | |
| "A Brazilian Symphony: Caxangá" | Donald,José Carioca (the parrot fromSaludos Amigos), and Goofy attempt to play "caxangá", or the Brazilian matchbox game; Donald is constantly driven to the point of madness in his attempt to master this complex, nerve-wracking game. | |
| Goofy | "How to Be a Cowboy" | A projected "how-to' short featuring Goofy as the chief cowboy on adude ranch. A similar concept would be used for the shortTwo-Gun Goofy.[43] |
| Wartime | "Army Psycho-Therapy" | An unproduced army training film dealing with stress, the adrenal glands, and the importance of discipline.[44] |
| Short film | The Blue Orchid | Based on Venezuelan folklore about animals and spirits in the jungle who repel their vision of man.[45] |
| Chichicastenango | A surreal visual tour ofChichicastenango.[45] | |
| A House Divided | A proposed wartime short about rationing, pitting theBig Bad Wolf as ablack marketeer against theThree Little Pigs, who have to be taught not to waste resources.[46] | |
| The Lady with the Rad Pomom | A Tauchan Bird encounters anAracuan Bird, and they fight over the lady with the Rad Pomom.[45] | |
| Lima Story | Adventurous Lima finds himself in the South AmericanLake Titicaca. Elements of this story ended up inSaludos Amigos.[45] | |
| Goofy | Lumberjack Goofy | Goofy chops down a tree that fails on him, and he gets stuck on the band of the power saw.[4] |
| Short film | The Near-Sighted Overbird | The hero of the story is nearsighted, which continuously causes him trouble. He mistakes a wineskin for his home.[45] |
| Feature film | The Ostrich Who Laid the Golden Egg | In a tale told by the Ostrich People of Prax when asked "Where did you come from?", there seems to be nothing conclusive about the tale.[citation needed] |
Note:Disney studios produced an animated sequence for Samuel Goldwyn's filmUp in Arms, which was unused in the final version of the film.[47]
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Goofy | "Army Story" | In the Army, Goofy becomes romantically involved with a prettyWAC.[48] |
| "How to Be a Commando" | A proposed GoofyWorld War II short wherein Goofy dreams of going up againstAdolf Hitler and goes throughcommandotraining camps to achieve his goal.[42] | |
| Mickey Mouse | "Chicken Little" | The sky is falling on Donald, Goofy and Mickey. This story was supposed to be either a featurette or short. It also starredJiminy Cricket andDaisy.[citation needed] |
| Pluto | "The Good Samaritan" | Pluto rescues a cute little puppy from the snow, who subsequently begins to tear the house apart, and Pluto has to rescue him again.[5] |
| Private Snafu | "Snafu" | One proposedPrivate Snafu short was planned by Disney, but was turned down byFrank Capra when Disney demanded commercial rights to the character and a high production cost. It consisted mostly of gags where the worst soldier in the army constantly fouls things up.[4] |
| Wartime | Ajax the Stool Pigeon Roland XIII | A short that was to feature a bird performing as a militarycarrier pigeon, despite having a fear of heights.[49] |
| Democracy | A proposed wartime short comparing Americandemocracy with the society ofNazi Germany through the trials of an immigrant family, the Joneses.[50] | |
| Melting Pot | An unmadepropaganda short with a Nazi lecturer extolling the virtues of the German way. This might be an alternate version of "Education for Death".[50] | |
| The Square World | This proposed wartime short satires the conformist society of Nazi Germany. This was considered to be extended into a feature film project at one point.[51] | |
| Bambi | Bambi's Children | A sequel to the originalBambi film, dealing with Bambi's adult life.[4] |
| Feature film | The Gremlins | (Version 1:) A feature film based on the novel byRoald Dahlof the same name about Gremlins that wreck airplanes.[52] (Version 2:) A short film based on the novel byRoald Dahlof the same name about Gremlins that wreck airplanes. The short was proposed after plans for a feature film adaptation fell apart.Warner Bros. eventually released theBugs Bunny shortFalling Hare andRussian Rhapsody using the same premise.[52] |
| The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen | The film was intended to be a co-production with Samuel Goldwyn, who also wanted to produce a film based on Andersen's life. It was decided at some point that part of the film would be shot in live action, with animated segments depicting some of Andersen's tales. These includedThe Emperor's New Clothes,The Emperor's Nightingale,Through the Picture Frame,The Little Fir-Tree,The Steadfast Tin Soldier, andThe Little Mermaid.[53] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Duck | "La Loca Mariposa" | Donald is a butterfly collector visiting the country of Venezuela.[45] |
| Mickey Mouse | "Intros and Outros" | Mickey presents theCIAA Health for America series. Note: These intros would have gone by the name of the actual CIAA films.[45] |
| Pluto | "Pluto and the Anteater" | Pluto encounters anaardvark in South America in a very strange manner.[45] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Chanticleer and Reynard | The stories of Chanticleer the rooster andReynard the fox are featured in the same film after plans fail in each of the earlier attempts to bring them separately to the screen.[54] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Duck | "Caxanga" | (Version 1:) Donald's heart is captured by a female parrot after his frustration over the South American game caxanga.[55] (Version 2:) Donald and Goofy are introduced by Jose to the game of caxanga. Frustrated over the game, Donald throws a tantrum. The next night, he cannot get the game out of his head.[45] |
| "Share and Share Alike" | Donald and his three nephews fight over an apple. Pencil tests for this proposed short still exist.[56] | |
| "Trouble Shooters" | Donald Duck is a telephone and power linesman who has some trouble with the same woodpecker that once destroyed his camera.[57] | |
| (n/a) | Don Quixote: Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character for Large Orchestra | This proposed short is another take on theDon Quixote tale. This time, the Disney animators set it aroundRichard Strauss'tone poem.[39] |
| Fiesta of the Flowers | Depicts the botanical action of the flowers on South America.[45] | |
| On the Trail | Ferde Grofé'sGrand Canyon Suite is brought to life, set in the light and color of southern desert.[58] | |
| Feature film | Carnival Surprise Package Cuban Carnival | A proposed thirdSouth of the Border Disney feature film.[59] The segments would have included: "Brazilian Rhapsody", an extended version of what would later become "Blame it on the Samba", released as part ofMelody Time in 1948; "The Laughing Gauchito" featuring the character first seen in "The Three Caballeros", who learns he has the ability to shatter glass with his laugh. He becomes a star, but his fame ends when his voice deepens as he becomes a man; "San Blas Boy" is about a boy named Chico and his dog Kiki, who are lost in a storm. "Cape Dance" was a surreal colourful fantasy; "Rancho in the Sky", and four others featuring Donald Duck, José Carioca, Panchito Pistoles, and a newly introduced small rooster from Cuba; Miguelito Maracas.[58] |
| (n/a) | Sonja Henie Fantasy | A proposedFantasia short would have been either animated or a live action/animation mix featuringthe famed ice skater.[34] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Duck Goofy | "Cowpoke Donald" "Old Geronimo" | Version 1: Donald sets out to capture the roughest, toughest steer in the whole state of Texas.[60] Version 2: Goofy sets out to capture the roughest, toughest steer in the whole state of Texas.[60] |
| Goofy | "How to Train a Dog" | Goofy tries to teach Pluto some new tricks.[43] |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey and Claudius the Bee" | Mickey is shrunk to the size of a bee and is given a tour of the hive by Claudius.[61] |
| Short Film | Trees with Faces | A one-shot animated short that was supposed to be about the life of Native Americans, featuring animated bits about the raven's mischief.[62] |
Note:Fun and Fancy Free, released in 1947, was originally planned to be two separate feature films.
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pluto | "Pluto's White Elephant" | Pluto encounters Bobo in the last attempt to bring Bobo back onto the screen. Little is known about the plot.[4] |
| "Scrambled Eggs" | Pluto encountersthe Ugly Duckling. This story was dropped from production for unknown reasons.[4] | |
| Feature film | Tintin | In 1948,Hergé wrote to Walt Disney hoping he would adapt theAdventures of Tintin comic strip into a potential animated feature. Gil Souto, a publicity director for Disney, turned down the proposal as Disney was occupied withCinderella at this time,[63] though Hergé did receive a Mickey Mouse trophy and a picture showing Tintin and Mickey shaking hands decades later. |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Currier and Ives | Planned for release sometime in the late 1940s, it was to be a "combination film" (live action mixed with animation). It was eventually dropped because the cost involved would have been too high. At the time, there had been a slate of combination pictures with the box office, each being less than its predecessor.[citation needed] |
| Hiawatha | Hiawatha was a follower ofThe Great Peacemaker, a prophet and spiritual leader, who proposed the unification of theIroquois people. This proposed feature was considered to be taken in a similar direction asFantasia, though it would feature a single story line.[64] |
Note:The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, released in 1949, was originally planned to be two separate feature films.
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mickey Mouse | "Plight of the Bumble Bee" | Mickey produces a stage musical number with Hector the Bee.[65] |
| "The Talking Dog" | Pluto gets roped into becoming aventriloquist's dummy in acircussideshow. When Mickey figures out that his dog is missing, he starts looking for him and finds him in the hands of Pete. Mickey battles Pete to get Pluto back. Some animation that was done on this short was dropped. It was animated for a pencil test.[25] | |
| Feature film | Don Quixote | A second attempt for this proposed feature film had the same basic plot as the 1940 take on theDon Quixote story, but the animation would have had asimilar style as seen inUPA animated shorts and features of the time.[66] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Duck | "Money-sorting Machine" "Donald-Scrooge Opus" | Donald works at Scrooge's Money Bin, operating a money-sorting machine that runs by power. When Donald is away at lunch, the radio announces a plague of rats is loose in the city. Scrooge closes and shutters all of his windows and bolts the door. He sits down, terrified, to eat his cheese sandwich but, before he can begin, he is besieged by a determined rat who has smelled the cheese from afar. The rat threatens to destroy a $10,000-dollar bill if Scrooge does not order the most expensive cheese in the world.[9] |
| Feature film | Babes in Toyland | Walt Disney announced the film in 1955 as an animated feature.[67] In 1956, he said he wanted to make it the following year, and assigned Bill Walsh to produce and Sidney Miller to direct.[68] Filming was delayed, then the project was reactivated asthe live-action 1961 movie of the same name. |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| (n/a) | Prairie Rhythm Pretty Red Wing | A planned satire of the classicWestern film stereotypes about anIndian girl and awhitetrapper.[69] |
| Short film | Barefoot Boy | This proposed short film was to be an adaptation of theJohn Greenleaf Whittier poem set inNorman Rockwell's "Never Land".[69] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | The Emperor's Nightingale | This proposed film would have used paper cut-out animation to tell the traditional tale, but with a much finer and more delicate Asian style than the earlier 1959 shortNoah's Ark. At one point, Mickey Mouse was considered to be included in the plot.[70] |
| Chanticleer | Having just completedOne Hundred and One Dalmatians,Ken Anderson andMarc Davis were looking for new ideas for the studio's next feature in which they located earlier conceptual artwork from the 1940s and attempted to adapt the story into an animated film. However, it was ruled that only one film would go into production at the time, andChanticleer was turned down once again when the studio decided to go forBill Peet's adaptation ofThe Sword in the Stone.[71] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | This proposed feature was to be an adaptation of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", involving a little girl who breaks into the bears' house.[72][page needed] |
| Little Red Riding Hood | This proposed feature was to be an adaptation of the Charles Perrault's tale "Little Red Riding Hood", involving a little girl who tries to travel to her grandmother, but she is pursued by a wolf.[72][page needed] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Hansel and Gretel | This proposed feature was to be an adaptation of theBrothers Grimm's tale "Hansel and Gretel", involving a brother and a sister threatened by a cannibalistic witch living deep in the forest in a house constructed of cake andgingerbread.[73] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | The Bremen Town Musicians | The story about a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster, all past their prime years in life and usefulness on their respective farms, who are soon to be discarded or mistreated by their masters. One by one they leave their homes and set out together. They decide to go toBremen, known for its freedom, to live without owners and become musicians.[74] |
| Hootsie the Owl Wise Little Owl | A second attempt of this proposed feature about a misfit owl who sleeps at night and is awake during the day because he hatched during the day. He is an embarrassment to his parents and has no friends. This is basically the same plot as the "Hootsie the Owl" short proposed in 1940, but with the addition of a snake character, similar toKaa inThe Jungle Book.[75] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Scruffy | An adaptation of the children's book byPaul Gallico, the story centered around the titularBarbary ape, who is the honorable leader of a family of apes. Set duringWorld War II, off the coast ofGibraltar, Scruffy falls in love with Amelia, a pampered pet ape, and together they evade capture from theNazis.[76] When the time came to approve the project, the studio leaders decided to approveThe Rescuers for production.[77] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | The Hero from Otherwhere | Based on the book byJay Williams, it was conceived as alive action/animated film about two schoolboys with different attributes who are transported to a strange planet whose leader persuades them to help destroy the wolfFenris that has been ravaging the land.[78][79] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Musicana | An early version of what eventually becameFantasia 2000. Some segments of the planned film were to be titled "Finlandia", involving a fight between the Ice God and Sun Goddess; an African segment about a curious monkey and a Rain God, including many hippos, lions and elephants; "The Emperor's Nightingale", based on the Andersen story, which would have starred Mickey Mouse as the keeper of the nightingale; a southern jazz story titled "By the Bayou", which included many frogs, including caricatures ofElla Fitzgerald andLouis Armstrong; a segment set in the Andes with a beautiful girl/bird; and a version of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", featuring tropical birds. It was cut due to financial issues in favor ofThe Fox and the Hound andThe Black Cauldron.[80] |
| The Little Broomstick | A few months afterMary Stewart's novel of the same name was published in 1971, Walt Disney Productions acquired the film rights. In 1980, directorWolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman decided to adapt it into an animated feature following the release ofThe Fox and the Hound, but studio management felt the project was too similar toBedknobs and Broomsticks. Also, they wanted the animation department to produce more ambitious films such asThe Black Cauldron. In 2017, the book was adapted into theJapanese animated filmMary and the Witch's Flower byStudio Ponoc as their first film.[81] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Catfish Bend | Based on the book series byBen Lucien Burman, it follows the journey of several animal residents in Catfish Bend. Following several treatments, it was nevergreenlit for production, and Disney dropped its option on the books.[82] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mickey Mouse | The Three Musketeers | Storyboard artists Steve Hulett and Pete Young developed the project with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, andJosé Carioca as the Musketeers, but it fell into development hell. However, in 2004,Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers was released, but it was unrelated to the earlier project.[82][83] |
| Feature film | Where the Wild Things Are | This was to be a film adaptation of thechildren's picture book written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. AnimatorsGlen Keane andJohn Lasseter (who later moved on toPixar) completed a test film blending traditionally animated characters with computer-generated settings, but the project proceeded no further.[84] However, alive-action film adaptation, distributed byWarner Bros. and directed bySpike Jonze was released twenty-six years later. |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Mistress Masham's Repose | Before the release ofThe Black Cauldron, producer Joe Hale and his production team were working on an adaptation of theT. H. White novel. WhileRoy E. Disney supported the project,Jeffrey Katzenberg disliked it. Eventually, Hale and most of the team were fired, and the project languished.[85] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Dufus | Then-Disney CEOMichael Eisner proposed that Disney Feature Animation should develop an animated adaptation ofThe Catcher in the Rye, since Eisner was a fan of the original book. However, knowing thatJ. D. Salinger would refuse to sell the film rights, Eisner then suggested to do an animated film that dealt with similar topics from the book, but withGerman shepherds as the characters. The film was briefly mentioned in theDisney+ filmHoward; where in 1986, lyricistHoward Ashman was sent a letter from then-Disney studio chairmanJeffrey Katzenberg in regards to collaborating with the studio on one of their films.Dufus was listed, alongside a sequel toMary Poppins andThe Little Mermaid.[86] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Army Ants | Disney considered producing an animated feature film that centered on apacifistant living in amilitaristiccolony. However, the idea never fully materialized.[87] This idea, however, was reincarnated ten years later intoDreamWorks'Antz and the unrelatedPixar'sA Bug's Life. |
| Winnie the Pooh | UntitledWinnie the Pooh film | When one of her novels came to the attention of a Disney executive,Linda Woolverton was hired to work on several animated projects, including one involvingWinnie the Pooh. However, it was later shelved onceThe New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh had aired.[88] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mickey Mouse | Swabbies | The story found Mickey, Donald, and Goofy out of work, out of luck, and in need of a job. They enlist in the Navy and go to boot camp with Pete as their exasperateddrill instructor. They meet their feminine counterparts—Minnie, Daisy and Clarabelle—who are allWAVES. After they put to sea, they encounter a submarine full of theBeagle Boys, who all speak a Russian-sounding gibberish. The entire film was storyboarded and recorded, and ananimatic was created. Complete model sheets of all of the characters were printed, and layouts and some animation had begun before the project came to an abrupt halt.[89] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Roger Rabbit | Who Discovered Roger Rabbit | As the proposed prequel to the 1988 Disney/Amblin film,Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the film, which previously went by the working title,Roger Rabbit Two: The Toon Platoon, was set in 1941 duringWorld War II, and would have hadRoger Rabbit andBaby Herman going on a journey through the perils of the war in search of Roger's birth parents in the Americas. It would have been adirect-to-video musical film.[90][91] |
| Goofy | Goofy of the Apes | A spoof ofTarzan of the Apes starringGoofy.[92][93] |
| Horace Horsecollar | Maximum Horsepower | In the 1990s,Horace Horsecollar was intended to star in a new television series forThe Disney Afternoon, intended to explain his disappearance from cartoons since the 1930s. The concept would be that, in 1939, Horace had grown tired of playing bit parts and, and upon learning that Mickey was going to appear inFantasia, he would demand Walt Disney to give him a featured role as well. However, on his way to Disney's office, Horace gets abducted by aliens who are in desperate need of the hero that they believe Horace is. Nevertheless, Horace dreams of returning to Earth and resuming his acting career.[94] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Humphrey the Whale | An animated adaptation of the children's bookHumphrey the Lost Whale by Richard Hall andWendy Tokuda.[95] |
| Puss in Boots | A film version of the tale.[96] It is unrelated to the releasedDreamWorks Animation film of the same title, especially since this one was more connected to the original fairy tale. | |
| Tiny the Alligator[95] | It was described as a "growing up story" of a resident of New York City who happens to be the size of an 18-wheeler.[97] | |
| Short film | A Tin Toy Christmas | A half-hour television sequel to the shortTin Toy was considered, butPixar felt convinced they could produce a feature film.[98] The project later becameToy Story. |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mickey Mouse | Mickey Columbus | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy were cast as the captains of theNiña, thePinta and theSanta Maria, and Minnie stands in for Queen Isabella. The film's writers could not decide what to do about the Native Americans thatColumbus would encounter in theNew World.[99] |
| Mickey's Arabian Nights | A featurette starring Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy and Goofy, set around the entireOne Thousand and One Nights anthology.[99] | |
| Tourist Trap | Based on an idea for a scrapped Roger Rabbit short, Mickey and Donald are heading on a vacation, with Donald attempting to kill Mickey.[100] | |
| Feature film | Homer's Odyssey | A feature film set around the odyssey ofOdysseus.[101] The project was scrapped when it failed to translate into animation comedy.[102] |
| Sinbad the Sailor | This proposed feature film, itself based on theArabian Nightstale of the same name, was scrapped afterAladdin was released.[101] | |
| Song of the Sea | ComposerStephen Flaherty and lyricistLynn Ahrens had pitched the project as a re-telling of the mythological story ofOrpheus and Eurydice, but withhumpback whales.[101][103] In March 1992,The New York Times had reported that both had signed on to compose songs for the project.[104]Gary Trousdale andKirk Wise were to direct, but the project was dropped when they were recruited to work onThe Hunchback of Notre Dame.[103] | |
| Swan Lake | The project was dropped because former Disney animation directorRichard Rich was developingThe Swan Princess.[105] | |
| Silly Hillbillies on Mars | Based on the idea of feuding hillbillies from outer space, it was inspired by a Disney storyman who saw the title of a Disney short, "The Martins and The Coys", mistaking it for "The Martians and The Cows".[101][106] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | The Man Who Would Be King | An adaptation of theRudyard Kipling short story.[107] |
| A Princess of Mars | During the 1990s, Jeffrey Katzenberg attempted to produce an animated adaptation of the novel.[108] After he had disapproved of Ron Clements and John Musker's pitch forTreasure Planet, Katzenberg instead offered them to directA Princess of Mars. However, the directors were uninterested,[109] and Disney relinquished the film rights toParamount Pictures in 2002.[110] By 2008, Paramount's film rights had expired and the project, now directed byWALL-E andFinding Nemo directorAndrew Stanton, entered production under Disney once again.[111] The finished project, titledJohn Carter, was released 19 years later on March 1, 2012, to mixed reviews.[112][113] The film became one of the biggestbox-office bombs of all time. Stanton initially conceivedJohn Carter as the first in a trilogy of sequels, which were all cancelled due to the film's diminishing box-office returns.[114][115] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Roger Rabbit | Hare in My Soup | A fourth Roger Rabbit cartoon short based onWho Framed Roger Rabbit was planned for release in 1995, to coincide with the release ofToy Story, preceding that proposed feature film in the process. It was canceled after pre-production ended and before production could begin, and was replaced in the gap with a reissue ofRollercoaster Rabbit.[116] This cartoon was supposed to be followed by three more Roger Rabbit shorts, also starring Baby Herman;Clean and Oppressed,Beach Blanket Bay andBronco Bustin' Bunny.[117] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Toots and the Upside Down House | Based on the book byCarol Hughes, it tells of a young girl who creates a fantasy world of goblins, fairies, sprites, and an evilJack Frost.[118][119] The film's production was canceled when Disney shut the film's animation production companySkellington Productions after the box office failure ofJames and the Giant Peach. |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| (n/a) | Totally Twisted Fairy Tales | Conceived as a direct-to-video project of four featurettes developed byWalt Disney Television Animation, it includedJack and the Beanstalk,Redux Riding Hood, a remake of 1933'sThree Little Pigs, and a fourth cartoon that was never finalized.Jack and the Beanstalk was written byPeter Tolan andGeorge Carlin was cast in an unspecified role, but it never went pass post-production.[120] "Three Little Pigs" was written and directed byFrank Conniff andDarrell Rooney respectively, starredHarvey Fierstein as the wolf, and was completed but never released.[121]Redux Riding Hood itself was nominated forAcademy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the70th Academy Awards.[122] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pepper Ann | Pepper Ann's Rio Adventure | In 1999, a theatrical animated film based on theDisney's One Saturday Morning seriesPepper Ann was in development at Walt Disney Television Animation andWalt Disney Pictures under the namePepper Ann's Rio Adventure. The movie would have followed Pepper Ann's soccer team being invited toRio de Janeiro as part of an event where they try to stop a land developer to deforest theAmazon River. The movie was scrapped for unknown reasons. However, concept art of the film by animation director Richard Bowman was discovered on eBay in February 2025.[123] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Bitsy | The story focused on the eponymous elephant who leavesIndia to try to make it in Hollywood, and ends up working in a used-car lot and falling in love. Veteran story artistsJoe Grant andBurny Mattinson developed the first act through storyboards, but following a twenty-minute pitch meeting, the executives were reluctant to approve the pitch.[124] |
| Wild Life | Loosely based onGeorge Bernard Shaw's playPygmalion,[125] the movie was to tell the story of an elephant who becomes a sensation on the New York club circuit. In the fall of 2000, Roy E. Disney watched a work-in-progress screening and was so appalled by the film's adult humor that he immediately ordered production to be shut down.[126] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantis | Atlantis II | Prior to the release ofAtlantis: The Lost Empire, directorsGary Trousdale andKirk Wise were in development of a theatrical sequel to the film. The plot was to have been about a maskedDarth Vader-like villain who attempts to re-take Atlantis, only to be revealed as Helga Sinclair. However, the project was cancelled and a 2003 sequel titledAtlantis: Milo's Return was released.[127] |
| Team Atlantis | It was also planned to adaptAtlantis: The Lost Empire into an animated television series produced by Disney Television Animation.Tad Stones was the series' showrunner, and in an interview, he claimed they were well into development with half the scripts written. However, on July 13, 2001, Barry Blumberg, then-president of Disney Television Animation, walked into a room and declared, "You've got to shut down the show."[128] The series' pause in development was attributed due to the film's poor box office performance. At the time of its cancellation, three episodes were finished and were later released direct-to-video asAtlantis: Milo's Return.[129] One of the unfinished episodes would have crossovered withGargoyles.[130] | |
| Feature film | Don Quixote | A third attempt to adapt the novel that was under development byPaul and Gaëtan Brizzi who aimed for a more adult take, but the project was never approved.[131] |
| Dumbo | Dumbo II | Disney planned a proposed direct-to-video sequel toDumbo. The plot was to follow Dumbo and his circus friends who navigate through a large city after being left behind by their traveling circus and trying to find their way home. It was also supposed to explain what happened to Dumbo's father. The trailer was included on theDumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition DVD. In 2002, the project was placed on hold after Joe Grant found the computer-animated test footage for the film to be lackluster. In 2005, the project was placed back into production, but was cancelled by John Lasseter a year later after being named Creative Officer.[132] Additionally, a thirdDumbo film was planned had the sequel ever came to be.[133] |
| Hercules | Hercules II: The Trojan War | Disney planned a proposed direct-to-video sequel toHercules.Hercules is now living in Athens withMegara and their daughter, Hebe. However, when an old friend named Helen is captured by the evilParis of Troy, Hercules joins the united Greek army as they head out to war. However, this war will create revelations, and Hercules finds an old friend who eventually goes missing.[134][135] |
| Feature film | Stoneflight | Based on the children's book byGeorgess McHargue, the story follows a lonely girl seeking refuge from her parents who befriends a lonely gargoyle at the roof of her Manhattan brownstone. The gargoyle then transports her to Central Park where other gargoyles have convened with other children from troubled families.[136] |
| The Frog Prince | A satirical adaptation of theBrothers Grimm fairy tale,The Frog Prince. It was developed byEric Goldberg and his wife, Sue, and it was pitched to then-Feature Animation presidentThomas Schumacher who rejected it feeling a satirical animated feature would not be popular with audiences.[137] Disney eventually revivedThe Frog Prince project which becameThe Princess and the Frog. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | The Nightmare Before Christmas 2 | Disney planned to make a sequel toThe Nightmare Before Christmas, but instead of usingstop motion, Disney wanted to use3D CGI animation.[138] However,Tim Burton convinced Disney to drop the idea. |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Antonius | The project follows the story of a leopard in ancient Egypt who becomes a freedom fighter.[139] |
| The Emperor's Nightingale | Written by Robert Reece, this version of the Hans Christian Andersen story would've been set inIndia.[132] | |
| The Fool's Errand | The story is said to have centered on acourt jester who goes on a mythical journey to return peace to his kingdom.[140] | |
| Mickey Mouse | The Search for Mickey Mouse | In honor ofMickey Mouse's 75th anniversary, the project was about Mickey Mouse who gets "mousenapped" by unknown forces.Minnie Mouse hiresBasil of Baker Street to investigate his disappearance. She, along with Donald Duck and Goofy, come across numerous characters from Disney's animated film canon, includingAlice,Peter Pan,Robin Hood, andAladdin. However, the multiple cameos were considered too gimmicky for the script. The project was later replaced byMickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers.[141][142] |
| Treasure Planet | Treasure Planet II | The cancelled direct-to-video sequel to theoriginal film. In the sequel, Jim Hawkins and Kate, his love interest and classmate at the Royal Interstellar Academy, must team with Long John Silver to stop the villainous Ironbeard from freeing the inmates of Botany Bay Prison Asteroid.Willem Dafoe was set to voice Ironbeard. The sequel was canceled afterTreasure Planet bombed at the box office.[143] |
| (n/a) | Pepe the Bull | In 2002,Jorge R. Gutierrez andSandra Equihua, creators ofEl Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, had pitched an animated series titledPepe the Bull to Disney Television Animation.[144][145] Had it been approved, it could have been Disney's first ever Flash-animated series, but instead it wasThe Buzz on Maggie, which Gutierrez provided character designs for. Gutierrez claimed the project was not picked up because the producers wanted the series to be about Pepe's sister. They were willing to greenlight the project, but he turned them down.[146] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Brother Bear | Brother Bear: The Series | Disney Television Animation was set to produce a television series titledBrother Bear: The Series forDisney Channel.The Simpsons veteran Pete Michels was to helm the series and was allowed to watch an uncomplete version of the film so that he could construct a pilot. The series would have taken place directly after the events of the film and would have seen Kenai and Koda adopt other orphaned animals into their family. Jeremy Suarez,Rick Moranis andDave Thomas were to reprise their respective roles whileWill Friedle would have replacedJoaquin Phoenix as Kenai. While the pilot tested well, it was not picked up as Disney Channel executives felt that the series was "counterproductive" to their goal of trying to reach a tween audience, combined with the fact that the film performed below expectations at the box office.[147] |
| The Jungle Book | The Jungle Book 3 | In 2003, a third installment toThe Jungle Book was planned. It would have been about Baloo and Shere Khan being captured and sold off to a Russian circus, and Mowgli, Shanti, Ranjan, and Bagheera deciding to save them both. Over the course of the film, Shere Khan regrets his hatred against humanity because of his capture, and eventually reforms,[148] but the project never materialized.[132] |
| Mowgli and Baloo's Jungle Jams | In 2003, cartoonist John Fountain was asked by Disney Television Animation to adaptThe Jungle Book into a potential animated television series. He wrote apitch bible titledMowgli and Baloo's Jungle Jams.[149] | |
| Feature film | My Peoples | While being produced atWalt Disney Feature Animation Florida, this proposed feature film was to be about two young lovers named Elgin Harper and Rose McGee. They are both from two rival families inAppalachia during the late 1940s. A group of mountain spirits inhabiting folk art dolls do what they can to bring the two of them together. Mixing traditional and computer-generated animation, it went through a number of title changes, including:A Few Good Ghosts,Angel and Her No Good Sister,Elgin's People, andOnce in a Blue Moon, and would have been directed byBarry Cook, the co-director ofMulan. Set to a bluegrass score, its voice cast includedDolly Parton,Lily Tomlin,Hal Holbrook, andCharles Durning. Despite the well-received test screenings, on November 14, 2003,David Stainton announced in a company email that production onA Few Good Ghosts had been cancelled.[150] Months later, Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida closed its doors on March 19, 2004.[151] |
| Tam Lin | In 2002,Roger Allers began developing a film adaptation of the Scottish fairy tale, but it was rejected after being pitched toMichael Eisner. At the time, Eisner was in a corporate struggle with Roy E. Disney, and recognized the project was Disney's "baby".[152] In May 2003,Sony Pictures Animation (SPA) announced the project was being directed by Allers andBrenda Chapman,[153] but one year later, he was later moved to co-direct SPA's first filmOpen Season while Chapman moved toPixar.[154] | |
| The Prince and the Pig | The project was described as a fairy tale centering on the grand adventure of a boy and his pig as they set off against all odds to try to steal the moon.[155] | |
| The Three Pigs | An adaptation based onDavid Wiesner's bookThe Three Pigs. In May 2002, it was reported that the book was optioned to Walt Disney Feature Animation.[156] In December 2003, it was announced the project was being developed as a 2D/3D animated hybrid film.[157] | |
| Uncle Stiltskin | The story begins where the famous Brothers Grimm fairy taleRumplestiltskin leaves off. InUncle Stiltskin, the fabled aspiring babynapper Rumplestiltskin again tries to fulfill his dream of being a father but, this time, he discovers the true meaning of family.[158][159] | |
| Which Witch? | Based on thechildren's novel of the same name byEva Ibbotson, the project tells of a fantasy adventure in which a magical wizard realizes that before he retires, he must find a wife. He holds a contest in which all the world's witches compete by performing their most outrageous spells.[160] In October 2014, it was announced that the project is in development again at theJim Henson Company withBilly Crystal serving as a writer, producer and star.[161] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | One for Sorrow, Two for Joy | Based on the Clive Woodall novel of the same name, it is set in an imaginary kingdom of Birddom and follows the plight of a plucky robin tasked with saving the world from evil magpies. In 2004, Disney entered negotiations with Woodall to acquire the film rights in hopes of producing an animated adaptation.[162] |
| Mulan | Mulan III | In 2002, a thirdMulan film was announced to be in production.[163] Like the first sequel, this proposed second sequel toMulan would have ultimately gone direct-to-DVD, but the production was eventually canceled beforeMulan II came out.[164] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Winnie the Pooh | Disney Learning Adventures | Originally, Disney planned to release moreWinnie the Pooh Learning Adventures installments, such asWinnie the Pooh: Good Day Good Night andWinnie the Pooh: Time to Rhyme. But plans to release both titles on DVD were ultimately scrapped after a reorganization at DisneyToon Studios. The original trailer for them can be found on several Disney DVDs as well as YouTube.[165] |
| Feature film | The Abandoned | Based on the children's book byPaul Gallico, the story focused on a young boy who transforms into a cat.[166][167] |
| Fraidy Cat | This proposed feature film was to have chronicled a frightened cat, who had already lost three of his nine lives, that finds himself trapped in aHitchcock-esque plot. The project originated with Piet Kroon, but was inherited byRon Clements andJohn Musker. However, David Stainton, then-president of Walt Disney Feature Animation, refused to green-light the project.[168] | |
| Mr. Popper's Penguins | Based on the novel of the same name, the project was developed by Joe Grant where Eisner and Stainton wanted the project to be set in contemporary New York, to which Grant contested.[166] The project was later moved to20th Century Fox (now owned by Disney) andwas released on June 17, 2011. It starredJim Carrey andCarla Gugino in the lead roles and received mixed reviews from critics but was a box office success. | |
| Winnie the Pooh | UntitledWinnie the Pooh film | Screenwriter Robert Reece wrote atreatment for aWinnie the Pooh feature film. It was to center on a dilemma for one of Pooh's friends, but it was never pitched.[132] |
| Aladdin | Aladdin 4 | In 2005, screenwriter Robert Reece pitched a fourthAladdin feature to Disneytoon executives, although it never came to fruition.[132] |
| Toy Story | Toy Story 3[169] | This original version of the2010 film of the same name by Disney'sCircle Seven Animation was to focus on Andy's mother shipping a malfunctioningBuzz toTaiwan, where he was built, as the other toys believe that he will be fixed there. After Buzz has been shipped, they find out the company has issued a massiverecall. Fearing Buzz's destruction, a group of Andy's toys (Woody, Rex, Slinky, Mr. Potato Head, Hamm,Jessie, and Bullseye) venture out to rescue Buzz. At the same time, Buzz meets other toys from around the world that have been recalled, including several Transformers toys.[170] After Disney bought Pixar in 2006, Circle Seven was shut down and their version ofToy Story 3 was cancelled. In 2010, Pixar released their own version ofToy Story 3. |
| Monsters, Inc. | Monsters, Inc. 2: Lost in Scaradise | In 2005, Circle Seven Animation screenwriters Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir wrote afilm treatment for a sequel ofMonsters, Inc.[171] The film would have focused on Mike and Sulley visiting the human world to give Boo a birthday present, only to find that she had moved. After getting trapped in the human world, Mike and Sulley split up after disagreeing on what to do.[172] However, it was cancelled following the shutdown of Circle 7.[173] In 2013, Pixar released a prequel,Monsters University. |
| Finding Nemo | Finding Nemo 2 | In 2005, Disney was going to make a sequel toFinding Nemo without Pixar's involvement by the now-defunct Circle Seven Animation.[169][173] Although it never went into production, a script for the Circle Seven version was uploaded to the officialRaindance Film Festival website in 2018.[174] It would have focused on Nemo reuniting with Remy, his long lost brother. Marlin later gets captured and sent to an aquarium so Nemo, Remy, and Dory venture to save him. After Disney bought Pixar in 2006, Circle Seven was shut down and their version ofFinding Nemo 2 was cancelled. In 2016, Pixar released their own sequel,Finding Dory. |
| Tron | UntitledTron TV series | In 2005, animation directorCiro Nieli was given the opportunity to develop an animated TV series based onTron. Nieli, who is best known for 2012'sTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, had previously created the seriesSuper Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! for Disney. However, plans for theTron series ultimately fell through. According to Nieli, the pitch for theTron series was reworked from a previous original concept of his known as "Powercade", featuring two kids who inherit electrical powers, accompanied by a creature named "Glitch".[175] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fantasia | Fantasia 2006 | This would have been the third film installment in theFantasia series. The plans were eventually dropped altogether, and proposed segments from that abandoned film were instead produced and released as individual stand-alone Disney animated shorts. One of them was the 2004 short filmOne by One which was added to the special edition release ofThe Lion King II: Simba's Pride, and the 2006 short filmThe Little Matchgirl which was added to the special edition release ofThe Little Mermaid.[176] |
| The Brave Little Toaster | Untitled fourthThe Brave Little Toaster film | In 2006, the official website ofHyperion Pictures posted an image of a possible fourthThe Brave Little Toaster film which was supposed to use computer-animation instead of hand-drawn animation, but it was never pitched. The website has largely been inactive since then but was updated in 2019.[177] |
| Chicken Little | Chicken Little: The Series | Walt Disney Television Animation developed an animated series based onChicken Little forDisney Channel. The project was passed in favor ofPhineas and Ferb according toDan Povenmire. An animation test for the series was found in 2024.[178] The entire script for the pilot episode would leak in June, 2025.[179] |
In June 2007,Disneytoon Studios president Sharon Morrill stepped down, and theanimation studio units under the Walt Disney Company underwentcorporate restructuring as the Pixar leadership assumed more control. Thus, most sequels, plus a prequel series, out of DisneyToon Studios were cancelled.[180][181]
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Aristocats | The Aristocats II | The direct-to-video sequel tothe original 1970 film.[181] The story was to have concerned Marie, Duchess's daughter, who becomes smitten by another kitten aboard a luxury cruise ship. However, she and her family must soon take on a jewel thief on the open seas.[132] |
| Chicken Little | Chicken Little II | The canceled direct-to-DVD sequel toChicken Little. The plot would have centered around Abby Mallard competing with a new schoolgirl for Chicken Little's affection.[181][182] |
| Meet the Robinsons | Meet the Robinsons II | The canceled direct-to-DVD sequel toMeet the Robinsons.[181] |
| Pet Project | A 6-minute short intended to be included on the film's DVD release, entailing the story of how Bowler Hat Guy was able to retrieve, raise and train a giant dinosaur to ravage against Lewis.[183] Progress was slightly swindled when Ed Catmull said that he didn't want the studio to devote any more time with creating extra shorts for DVD releases because they "don't pay for themselves",[184] and was eventually cancelled after the second draft animatic was completed.[185] | |
| Snow White | The Seven Dwarfs | At one point, Disney was developing a 3D-animated,The Lord of the Rings-like franchise series of direct-to-DVD films which would chronicle the adventures of theSeven Dwarfs before they metSnow White. The planned series faced creative differences, and was eventually scrapped.[181] The concept was however, revived into a television series titledThe 7D which aired onDisney XD from 2014 to 2016.[133] |
| Pinocchio | Pinocchio II | The canceled direct-to-video sequel tothe original 1940 film. According to Robert Reece, who wrote a script for it, Pinocchio would have gone on a quest to find out why life is so unfair sometimes.[132] |
| Disney Princess | Disney Princess Enchanted Tales | Initially, after the release of the direct-to-video filmDisney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams, there was to be an entire series ofEnchanted Tales direct-to-video film installments.[181] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| (n/a) | Carmen Got Expelled! | In 2008,El Tigre creatorJorge R. Gutierrez stated he had pitched to Disney Television Animation an animated television series titledCarmen Got Expelled. The series was to revolve around Carmen, a rebellious young girl who has been expelled by every school. Enrolled in a private academy by The Baron, she faces challenges to avoid expulsion, navigating a new environment with unique rules.[186] A pilot episode with a colored animatic has since been uploaded.[187] According to Gutierrez, the DTA executives loved the pitch, but were uncomfortable with a Hispanic female lead. Instead, Gutierrez stated they wanted "her to be a white girl who follows the rules."[146] Guiterrez also claimed they were told the series would be too "edgy" for Disney Channel.[188] Nevertheless, he was thankful the series was not picked up as he later directedThe Book of Life.[189] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Newt | In 2008, Disney announced an original film from Pixar, which would have concerned the exploits of two blue-footed newts, one male and one female, who cannot stand each other. They embark on an adventure and emotionally bond with each other to prevent the extinction of their species.Gary Rydstrom was the director and it was intended to be released in 2011.[190] However, in 2011, John Lasseter statedNewt had been shelved and asserted it shared similarities withBlue Sky Studios'Rio.[191] In a March 2014 article, Pixar presidentEdwin Catmull stated thatNewt was an idea that was not working in pre-production. When the project was passed toPete Docter, he pitched an idea that Pixar thought would be better, and that concept becameInside Out.[192] |
| ShadeMaker | In 2010,Henry Selick formed a joint venture with Pixar called Cinderbiter Productions, which was to exclusively producestop-motion films.[193] Its first project under the deal, a film titledShadeMaker was set to be released on October 4, 2013,[194] but was canceled in August 2012 due to creative differences.[194][195] Selick was given the option to shopShadeMaker (now titledThe Shadow King) to other studios.[196] Selick later stated in interviews that the film suffered from interference from John Lasseter who Selick claimed came in and constantly changed elements of the script and production that ended up ballooning the budget that would lead to its cancelation.[197] However, in November 2022, Selick had reacquired the rights forThe Shadow King from Disney and that he may revive the project.[198] | |
| Calling All Robots | On March 26, 2008,Michael Dougherty was set to direct the animated sci-fi adventure filmCalling All Robots with Zemeckis producing the film throughImageMovers Digital forWalt Disney Pictures.[199] | |
| The Nutcracker | On November 26, 2009, Zemeckis had signed on to produce and direct the motion capture animated film adaptation ofE.T.A. Hoffmann'sThe Nutcracker throughImageMovers Digital forWalt Disney Pictures.[200] On July 21, 2016,Universal Pictures revived the adaptation, which may or may not use motion capture, with Zemeckis only set to produce the film andEvan Spiliotopoulos was hired to write the script.[201] There has been no information since. | |
| UntitledLee Unkrich Pixar film | Before Lee Unkrich directedToy Story 3, he was developing an untitled film that "had similar elements withThe Secret Life of Pets".[202] | |
| Disney Princess | Princess Academy | Princess Academy was to be an animated musical short that was developed by Olivier Ciappa and illustrator David Kawena, with music from Alan Menken. The short would have featured nearly all the female characters fromSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs toTangled, including those from the Pixar films,Jessica Rabbit fromWho Framed Roger Rabbit, andSally fromThe Nightmare Before Christmas. All the characters would have interacted with each other, singing, dancing and enjoying each other's company at a royal boarding school.[203][204][205] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Mort | This proposed traditionally animated film would have been based onTerry Pratchett'sDiscworld novel of the same name. It would have been directed byJohn Musker andRon Clements, the directors of the 2009 filmThe Princess and the Frog. Disney could not afford the rights to the film so it was scrapped.[206] Clements and Musker moved on to directMoana. |
| Special | UntitledPhineas and Ferb/Kick Buttowski crossover | WhenKick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil was in the middle of its first season, a crossover of the show withPhineas and Ferb was in the talks. The special would have Phineas and Ferb making Kick a new stunt course while Brad and Candace team up to get them busted with Brad having a crush on her and Gunther would be teaming up with Perry to stop Doofenshmirtz from taking over the world by using stuntmen as his henchmen. However, the idea was scrapped for unknown reasons and the original information about it can be shown onTumblr.[citation needed] |
| Mickey Mouse | UntitledMickey Mouse film | In 2011, veteran Disney storyboard artistBurny Mattinson revealed in one interview that he was developing a "Mickey, Donald, Goofy feature film idea".[207] In February 2023, Mattinson died at the age of 87.[208] |
| Phineas and Ferb | UntitledPhineas and Ferb theatrical film | In January 2011,Gary Marsh, the president ofDisney Channels Worldwide announced that early development on a theatrical feature film adaptation ofPhineas and Ferb had commenced.Sean Bailey, head of production atWalt Disney Pictures, led the development, which would combine live-action and animation. By July, Povenmire and Marsh were in the early stages of writing the film's script;Michael Arndt, the writer ofLittle Miss Sunshine andToy Story 3, was hired to write a further draft of the screenplay. The film was to be produced byMandeville Films, and was originally scheduled for release on July 26, 2013. In October 2012, Disney moved the release date to 2014, and in August 2013, the film was removed from its schedule.[209][210][211][212][213][214] |
| Feature film | Yellow Submarine | Thismotion capture remake ofthe 1968 Beatles film was developed byRobert Zemeckis. Disney canceled the project due to the box office failure of the Zemeckis-produced motion capture filmMars Needs Moms and aesthetic concerns about the technology.[215] After its cancellation at Disney, Zemeckis then tried to pitch the film to other studios, before eventually losing interest in the project.[216] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | King of the Elves | Based on theshort story byPhilip K. Dick, it was originally directed by Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker, and scheduled for a Christmas 2012 release.[217] However, the project was cancelled in December 2009,[218] though it returned development in 2011 withChris Williams as the director.[219] Ultimately, Williams left the project in 2012 to work onBig Hero 6.[220] |
| The Graveyard Book | In April 2012,Walt Disney Pictures acquired the rights and hiredHenry Selick, director ofThe Nightmare Before Christmas and thefilm adaptation of Gaiman's novelCoraline, to directThe Graveyard Book.[221] The film was moved toPixar as a stop-motion production, which would have been the company's first adapted work.[222] After the studio and Selick parted ways over scheduling and development, it was announced in January 2013 thatRon Howard would direct the film.[223] In July 2022, it was announced thatMarc Forster would be directing a live-action feature film adaptation with Renée Wolfe, Gil Netter and Ben Brown set to produce, andDavid Magee writing the script.[224] Later that year, Neil Gaiman stated that he has no involvement with the film.[225] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Toy Story | Toy Story Toons: Mythic Rock | In 2013, it was revealed a fourth short ofToy Story Toons was in the works, entitledMythic Rock.[226] However, it was never released. |
| Cars | Cars Toons: Tales from Radiator Springs: To Protect and Serve | At the 2013Disney D23 Expo, it was announced that a fifth episode ofCars Toons: Tales from Radiator Springs, entitledTo Protect and Serve, was in production.[227][228] However, it was never released. |
| Prep & Landing | Prep & Landing 4 | In a 2011 interview promoting the third entry in the series of Christmas specials,Naughty vs. Nice, creators Kevin Deters andStevie Wermers-Skelton stated that there were plans for a fourth entry in the series, but that they could not reveal any more about the project.[229] The project ultimately never made it to broadcast, and the two were instead assigned to a different Christmas short,Olaf's Frozen Adventure, in 2016; by this point, the two spoke of the series in the past tense.[230] In June 2024, it was announced that the franchise was revived atDisney Television Animation with a new special calledPrep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol slated for a November release onDisney Channel andDisney+.[231][232] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tinker Bell | Tinker Bell: Tinker Academy | In addition to the six feature-length Tinker Bell films, DisneyToon Studios also had plans for a seventh film.[233] In April 2014,The Hollywood Reporter stated that the film was cancelled due to storyline problems.[234] The story would have centered around Tinker Bell going to the titular school and meeting a new group of fairies called City Tinkers, with the most prominent one being a fairy named Ember.[235][236] |
| Tink Meets Peter | Stephen Anderson stated on Twitter about working on an eighthTinker Bell film in late 2014. The working title wasTink Meets Peter and was intended to be the final installment in the franchise and a direct prequel to the1953Peter Pan film. The storyline would show how Peter came to Neverland, and the genesis of Peter and Tink's relationship. The film was under production during the time home video marketing was plummeting and DisneyToon Studios' closure.[237] | |
| The Haunted Mansion | The Haunted Mansion | In July 2014, it was announced that Disney Television Animation was developing an animated special based on the attraction, the project originally was going to be helm byPhineas and Ferb writers Joshua Prett and Scott D. Peterson withGris Grimly as art director and executive producer, the project was later re-developed as a potential mini-series forDisney XD withShannon Tindle as executive producer but executive changes atDisney Channels Worldwide in 2017 shelved the production.[238][239] |
| Winnie the Pooh | The World According To Winnie the Pooh | A collaboration betweenCartoon Saloon and Disney Television Animation, the series was to be a modern reimagining of theWinnie the Pooh franchise. However, it was turned down by Disney. Since then, a clip of the pilot can has been uploaded to Twitter/X.[240] |
| Series | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Series | Untitled Variety Show | In 2016,Uncle Grandpa alumni Audie Harrison developed an untitled variety series featuring short segments starringChip and Dale,Cheshire Cat, Lilo & Stitch, andTigger.[241] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Gigantic | Based on the English folk tale "Jack and the Beanstalk", the story was set in Spain, in which Jack befriends an 11-year-old female giant named Inma. Originally titledGiants,[242] the film would have been directed byNathan Greno andMeg LeFauve,[243] co-written by LeFauve,[243] produced byDorothy McKim,[243] executive-produced byJohn Lasseter,[244] and included songs written byRobert Lopez andKristen Anderson-Lopez.[243] However, the project faced multiple delays, having been previously scheduled for release on November 23, 2016,[245] March 9, 2018,[243] November 21, 2018,[243] and November 25, 2020.[242] On October 10, 2017, Walt Disney Animation Studios PresidentEd Catmull announced that the film's production was "ending active development for now", withRaya and the Last Dragon taking up its original release date.[246][247] Prior to the film being shelved, it was marketed in a scene in Disney's 2016 filmZootopia.[248] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cars | Beyond the Sky[249] | In July 2017 at theD23 Expo,John Lasseter announced that a spin-off film in thePlanes series would explore the future of aviation inouter space. The film had a release date of April 12, 2019.[250] On March 1, 2018, it was removed from the release schedule.[251] On June 28, 2018, DisneyToon Studios was shut down, ending development on the film.[252] |
| Metro | Another spin-off afterPlanes set in theCars universe about trains.[253][254] Steve Loter incorporated some elements fromMetro into the animated seriesMoon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Goof Troop | UntitledGoof Troop reboot | In 2019,Steven Universe Future andStar vs. the Forces Of Evil alumni Becky Dreistadt and Frank Dreistadt attempted to pitch aGoof Troop reboot at Disney Television Animation. The series would have combined elements fromGoof Troop,A Goofy Movie andAn Extremely Goofy Movie. The project was scrapped for unknown reasons.[255][256] |
| Doug | Doug Kids | In 2019,Doug creatorJim Jinkins was approached by an executive to pitch a sequel series titledDoug Kids focusing on Doug and Patti Mayonnaise's children. The series was reported to be in production at Disney Television Animation in fall 2023. Jinkins clarified the series was scrapped due to the leadership changes atDisney Branded Television, with Ayo Davis appointed as the new CEO.[257][258][259] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Princess and the Frog | Tiana | In December 2020, Disney announced they were developing a streaming television series titledTiana. Set after the events of the film, the series was to center on Tiana's new role as princess of Maldonia and exploring her home city,New Orleans. The series was to be released in 2022.[260][261][262][263] The release date was postponed to 2023[264] and eventually 2024.[265] In March 2023, the show's page was changed to "coming soon to Disney+" with no mention of a release window.[266] In March 2025, it was announced that the series had been shelved due to its high production costs and the studio was moving away from longform streaming content. Disney however confirmed a television special based on the film would be produced instead.[267] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Oswald the Lucky Rabbit | UntitledOswald the Lucky Rabbit series | A series centered on Oswald was in development, with the project announced in 2019 for a potential release onDisney+.[268][269]Disney Television Animation veteranMatt Danner revealed that a series was in development as a follow up for the team behindLegend of the Three Caballeros, but that they "got broken up and scattered to the wind".[270] He expressed hope that the series could still be revived in the future and further hinted that another team would develop it, as Disney was still heavily invested in wanting to revive the character.[271][272] In March 2025, it was reported thatJon Favreau was developing a live-action animated hybrid series based on the character for Disney+.[273] Concept art for the scrapped series would get discovered in May, 2025.[274] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Rescuers The Great Mouse Detective | The Rescue Aid Society | In 2022,Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure,Monsters At Work andWish alumni Tom Caulfield revealed that he alongsideThe Ghost and Molly McGee creators Bill Motz and Bob Roth pitched acrossover series featuringThe Rescuers andThe Great Mouse Detective at Disney Television Animation. The series would have featured the descendant ofBasil working at a modern version of The Rescue Aid Society more akin toThe Kingsman orMission: Impossible lead byBianca. According to Caulfield the project was scrapped due to the release of theChip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers film.[275][276] |
| Series | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Win or Lose | UntitledWin or Lose follow-up series | Pixar was working on an untitled follow-up series, but it was quietly cancelled.[277][278][279] In August 2025,TheWrap reported that the series might be reworked as a feature film.[280] |
But thenSwan Lake got canned because of Rick Rich'sThe Swan Princess.
The relationship between Disney's company Miramax and Henry Selick also became strained, as plans for another feature calledToots and the Upside Down House were abandoned.