Directed
by: Randy Haycock
Written by:
Music by:
Directed
by: Randy Haycock
Written by:
Music by:
Released on:
Running Time: minutes
Budget: $
Box-Office: $ in the U.S., $ million worldwide
Based on the children's folktale by Hans Christian Andersen, The
Emperor and the Nightingale is set in China. Emperor Wu has a nightingale
whose beautiful songs bring him much joy. One day the Emperor receives
a mechanical bird that can sing and dance and he devotes his attention
to the toy bird. Neglected and ignored, the nightingale flies away. Some
time passes and the mechanical bird breaks down. The Emperor, never realizing
the treasure he had in his nightingale, pines for the melodious songs of
the nightingale. One day the nightingale returns to the palace and the
Emperor promises to never neglect it again.
It was first revealed
in May 2002 that Randy Haycock, best known as the lead animator on Tarzan's
villainous great white hunter, Clayton, is developing a film for Disney
Feature Animation that’s based on a Hans Christian Andersen story: The
Emperor and the Nightingale.
In August 2002,
'Sir Farticus' confirmed that "Randy Haycock (Kida, Clayton, baby\adolescent
Hercules) is now directing a feature for Disney. It is a return to the
fairy-tale genre. They hired an outside source to write the story, and
as far as I know the project is still in preproduction. Randy also finished
work on the Little Match Girl sequence for the next
Fantasia installment before he started work with John Ripa on Jim Hawkins
for Treasure Planet."
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