Zeus would cheat on Hera with all sorts of women and he also was a huge dick considering not all of them were consensual, but the awful antics of Zeus is a whole other piece in itself. So now since we know why the film was made let’s talk about one of my two issues: the mythology. That is how we have the 1997 classic, Hercules. So in order to get this money-making film Katzenberg made a deal with them, make the most commercial film ever and he’d greenlight their movies. But Clements and Musker simply wanted to make their dream project. Katzenberg wanted a hit, he wanted a film with so much commercial success that it couldn’t flop or do bad, he wanted merchandise. Obviously, since Clements and Musker had two hits under their belt they chose to redevelop Treasure Planet from then until the fall of ’93 in order to pitch it once more to Katzenberg, thinking he’d be all for it but he still wasn’t convinced. In ‘92,Īladdin was released and became another Musker and Clements hit. Now let’s fast forward a couple of years to November 1992.

Katenzburg hated the Treasure Planet idea and thought nobody would want to see a comic book style version of the Robert Lewis Stevenson novel, so he picked The Little Mermaid instead which went on to become a huge hit and is now one of the films people say was integral to the “Disney Renaissance”. Let’s travel back to the year of 1985, John Musker and Rob Clements are pitching Treasure Planet aka “Treasure Island in space” and the Little Mermaid to the chief Disney studios, Jeffery Katzenberg. In all honestly, the film did bomb, especially for a Disney film, and in my opinion that was to be expected considering how it came about. If you’ve watched the Disney animated Hercules film from 1997 you might remember one of two things from it: Hades was the villain and The Muses were awesome.

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