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AladdinsGenie · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 8:37 pm Post subject:

But they'll save her for that God awful Princess Party CD to sing a song about musical chairs as Jasmine Rolling Eyes

Nez · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 8:40 pm Post subject:

Hourglass · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 8:47 am Post subject:

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 10:17 am Post subject:

They used her too. She sings a song abotu cups and saucers Rolling Eyes

But the really funny thing is both Mulan and Jasmine sing on one song with some of the other princesses Laughing

Hourglass · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 4:16 pm Post subject:

Jas · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 7:13 pm Post subject:

Hey - I'd sing those stupid songs for money. Laughing

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Hourglass · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 7:47 pm Post subject:

iamstillhiro1112 · Streetrat Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 16

Well, I guess I have to say I'm a bit suprised that there isn't so much info out there about this. It leads me to believe it is just a rumour and nothing more. Well, it could be more but it don't seem there is any proof of it.

Hourglass · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 2:44 pm Post subject:

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 2:44 pm Post subject:

ROJ isn't a tv show. It was tv series episodes before it was turned into a "movie". They lead into the Aladdin series. Very Happy

Hourglass · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 2:46 pm Post subject:

Marisa · Sultan Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 281

Nez · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 7:13 am Post subject:

HeavensxJoke · Streetrat Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Posts: 10

This was not originally meant for TV. It was not a theatrical release, Disney tends to not spend so much money on Direct to Video releases. Look at The Lion King & The Lion King 2. The animation is much worst in the second movie.... not that it is all that great in the first. The King of Thieves had better graphics, etc... but they also had "Starring Robin Williams" to slap on the box cover. Also, they knew the success of Aladdin for sure at this point. Look at The Lion King, it was a great success... the Lion King 2 was not. You never know how well a sequal is going to fair out....

Salukfan · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 10:37 pm Post subject:

No, RoJ was very meant for TV. As the first four episodes of the TV series. Tad Stones himself stated this in an interview Heather posted a while ago.

EDIT: Right here.

Whose idea was it to turn Aladdin into a series?

TS: It was kind of a no-brainer; you had this movie that made $150 million. Some of the episodes I loved more than others, the ones that had more of an Arabian Nights feel.

I had been thinking that while the genie is great, he's not a normal character. He's crazy because he was Robin Williams who could bring in all this Warner Bros. craziness into a Disney show. Few people realize that even before he shows up, Aladdin is a great movie. I thought Iago was a great character, he was funny, and mean, and Gilbert Gottfried's voice fit perfectly. I said "I want the parrot in there," but he was trapped in the lamp [at the end of the Aladdin movie], so we came up with a story of how he got out and ended up with Aladdin.

The big history-making thing that came out of the show was up to that time we would always do a four or five-part special that would be played vertically as a movie like on a Friday night, and then on Monday the series would start. Some were more episodic than others. I called up the Disney home video division and said, "By definition I'm doing a sequel to Aladdin; are you guys interested? They said "No, not really." We don't want to make a few hundred million more, right? Then they released Aladdin. It was huge, obviously. I called them again and reminded them we were doing the sequel to Aladdin. If we got it done in time, it could be out a few months before the series premiered. This time they said, "We'll get back to you."

Return of Jafar was made for about $3.5 million. It made more than $100 million domestically and created the home video market for Disney. Arguably — and I won't deny this — it probably played a hand in killing off Disney features in that now there's a lot of animation out there on video shelves. If you're a parent you're saying, "Do I buy tickets to the movie, or do I buy the new video that they can watch a hundred times?"

Anyway, our film was always intended as a feature-length story —

JS: — that set up the premise for the series.

TS: Exactly, and it did fantastic. Now at the time I was told that Peter Schneider, who was in charge of Feature Animation was at a meeting with Michael Eisner. Peter said, "You shouldn't do sequels, their quality hurts the Disney reputation," and Michael said, "I'm not sure we should be doing these either." The next part of the meeting was, "It cost $3.5 million to make and made over $100 million. Well, what should the next one be?"
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