An article with some interesting info:
https://collider.com/disney-chicken-lit ... explained/
The original concept for Chicken Little (to be voiced by Oscar-winner Holly Hunter) was about her relationship with her father (Garry Marshall). She was a very nervous, anxious little kid who was prone to panic attacks and overreacting. It was an acorn but in her mind it was the sky and it caused this big catastrophe in the town. Chicken Little wanted to make her dad proud, so she signed herself up for a summer camp to build her confidence. “When she went there, the really friendly sheep counselors had been abducted and wolves-in-sheep-clothing had taken over with the very silly idea to plump the kids up to cook them at the end for a big wolf feast. And she ends up saving the day. This version had been developed for a couple of years (“It had been boarded and finished,” with Penn Gillette cast as the lead wolf) when Michael Eisner, former Chairman and CEO of Disney, made a request … or rather, a demand.
“Michael Eisner just said, ‘I don’t want it to be a girl, I want it to be a boy.’”
Then Thomas Schumacher, who had been with Walt Disney Animation since 1990 and helped steer it through its creative rebirth (eventually becoming President of what was then known as Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1999), left to focus on Disney Theatrical Group. In his place, the well-liked Schumacher installed David Stainton, who had been with Disney since 1989 and served in a variety of positions at different business units.
Stainton made sweeping changes, including shuttering the studio’s Florida satellite studio (where such hits as Lilo & Stitch and Brother Bear had been produced) and focusing the studio exclusively on computer animation. And if Eisner’s demand that the lead character be swapped from a girl to a boy had paused the project, Stainton’s response led to a complete creative, from-the-ground-up overhaul.
“We had a screening for Eisner and it was David Stainton’s first day or second day. It’s the Hollywood thing where here he comes and he’s overseeing the movie and he has nothing invested in it,” Fullmer remembered. “So he has to burn it and start over in his vision. He was quite happy to describe it as a ‘train wreck.’ The air just went out of my sails. It was not a train wreck. It had a lot of charm to it.”
That’s when Dindal thought back to an earlier iteration of the story, which focused on Chicken Little and a group of misfit animals who lived on a farm in the middle of the country. Aliens touched down in that remote area to begin their conquest of earth and she and the other animals thwart that. And there was no evidence. Since it happened in a remote location, the world would never know.
Dindal wound up combining the science fiction concept from this early idea with some of the character stuff from the wolf/summer camp version, into a new concept.
While it was briefly envisioned as a traditional animated feature, it quickly moved over to computer animation. It was just the sign of the times. “All of these little kids … you look at commercials that little kids watch and they’re very sophisticated 3D things, they look at a 2D animated thing instead of that nostalgic charm they look at it like an old black-and-white movie that needs to be colorized.”
Executive interference was constant. “David Stainton had some bad ideas. I’ll just leave it at that,” Fullmer remarked. Dindal remembered a disastrous screening where they got 75 notes from the studio afterwards. “It was overwhelming. But at the same time I remember going, ‘Okay let’s go through them.’ We never reached a point when we said, ‘Enough already,’” Dindal said.
Additionally, towards the end of production, they were forced to convert the movie to 3D. “We started that 11 months from the release. I totally forgot about that. That was one more thing. It was like, hey, let’s throw 3D into it. Nothing had been planned for that because there wasn’t even 3D at the start of that.”
Disney purchased Pixar outright in January 2006. Stainton, the third president of Walt Disney Animation in as many years, was gone. And so were Dindal, who left for live-action projects at Paramount (that were ultimately never produced) and Fullmer, who got worn down by the internal politics. “At some point it dons on you that your dream when you were looking out the window in sixth grade was not to attend a lot of boring meetings where people yell at each other.”
As for Dindal, you get the feeling that, despite him being relentlessly upbeat and positive, the loss of that original version of the film still haunts him. “I think, Oh that version … Then I’m reconnected with what I’m thinking at the time. And you’re thinking how that version would have turned out. If we had stuck with that instead of this. If we had pushed Eisner and said, It has to be a girl,’ it could have been killed,” Dindal. “With this, I wish I could see an alternate reality, what that would have been like. That’s mostly it.”
The article also has some info about Rapunzel. Didn't know the animation was supposed to look like it was made of brush strokes:
On April 4, 2003, Keane gathered a group of animators into a third-floor conference room and conducted a seminar called “The Best of Both Worlds.” He promised great things; an artistic synthesis of the two aesthetics, and pointed to features like his own Rapunzel Unbraided (which was using a program to approximate brush strokes) and American Dog, which appropriated the style of artists like Edward Hopper.
Makes one wonder what Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, Rapunzel and American Dog would have ended up like if it wasn't for all the chaos and interfering back then.
, but i actually like Home on The Rane. It's a 7 ou 10 movie for me. I don't like this movie how ever 
