History Trivia / ChickenLittle

* ExecutiveMeddling: The film was originally going to be more closer to the original fairy tale but still a different take. Chicken Little was depicted as a girl in the original draft but was changed into a boy just because the higher ups think that an animated movie with a girl as a main protagonist wound't make a lot of money and appeal to boys. As for the story, the plot would have been about Chicken Little going to summer camp and meet the same friends from the final film. However, there is a dark twist where the camp was ran by wolves who disguise themselves as sheep and had a plan on fattening up the campers for a feast. It was scrapped as the higher ups wanted to cash in on the fractured fairy tale story that was seen in ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}''.

* TakeThatTitForTat: Michael Eisner was not thrilled about his former colleague and now rival Creator/JeffreyKatzenberg using a caricature of him as the villain in the computer-animated hit movie ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'', and wanted to beat him at his own game by doing his own CGI movie full of snarky-self aware humor. Needless to say, it wasn't much of a fight.

* TakeThatTitForTat: Creator/MichaelEisner was not thrilled about his former colleague and now rival Creator/JeffreyKatzenberg using a caricature of him as the villain in the computer-animated hit movie ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'', and wanted to beat him at his own game by doing his own CGI movie full of snarky-self aware humor. Needless to say, it wasn't much of a fight.

** It was the final blow to Creator/MichaelEisner's time at Disney. Following a decade of failed investments in Ride/DisneyThemeParks, plus internal struggles with both Roy E. Disney and Pixar's Creator/JohnLasseter, Eisner resigned shortly before the film's release, {{passing the torch}} to Bob Iger. He has since stuck to producing TV shows through The Tornante Company, most notably the critical darling ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', though his creative input has been minimal after the failure of ''WesternAnimation/GlennMartinDDS'', which he co-created.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The film was originally going to be more closer to the original fairy tale but still a different take. Chicken Little was depicted as a girl in the original draft but was changed into a boy just because the higher ups think that an animated movie with a girl as a main protagonist wound't make a lot of money and appeal to boys. As for the story, the plot would have been about Chicken Little going to summer camp and meet the same friends from the final film. However, there is a dark twist where the camp was runned by wolves who disguise themselves as sheep and had a plan on fattening up the campers for a feast. It was scrapped as the higher ups wanted to cash in on the fractured fairy tale story that was seen in ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}''.

* ExecutiveMeddling:
** The movie originally stuck to the fable by using a female Chicken Little, and you can even see the original opening with her on the DVD special features. Michael Eisner had her changed to a boy to appeal better to young boys (and the argument that it's easier to get picked on for being small if you were a boy).
** David Stainton asked Mark Dindal to re-write the story because he thought it needed a different approach. What followed was the team rewriting and redoing the entire movie over the course of a few months.

** Director Creator/MarkDindal, whose career was already not doing well after ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' a decade prior, was not credited in another movie until 2019's ''WesternAnimation/WonderPark'', which itself seems to have become a StillbornFranchise. All of the projects he was involved with in-between died in DevelopmentHell. However, he is still working as the director on the 2024 animated ''Franchise/Garfield'' movie.

** Director Creator/MarkDindal, whose career was already not doing well after ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' a decade prior, was not credited in another movie until 2019's ''WesternAnimation/WonderPark'', which itself seems to have become a StillbornFranchise. All of the projects he was involved with in-between died in DevelopmentHell.

* TakeThatTitForTat: Creator/MichaelEisner was not thrilled about his former colleague and now rival Creator/JefferyKatzenberg using a caricature of him as the villain in the computer-animated hit movie ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'', and wanted to beat him at his own game by doing his own CGI movie full of snarky-self aware humor. Needless to say, it wasn't much of a fight.

** It was the final blow to Michael Eisner's time at Disney. Following a decade of failed investments in Ride/DisneyThemeParks, plus internal struggles with both Roy E. Disney and Pixar's John Lasseter, Eisner resigned shortly before the film's release, {{passing the torch}} to Bob Iger. He has since stuck to producing TV shows through The Tornante Company, most notably the critical darling ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', though his creative input has been minimal after the failure of ''WesternAnimation/GlennMartinDDS'', which he co-created.

* TakeThatTitForTat: Michael Eisner was not thrilled about his former colleague and now rival Jeffery Katzenberg using a caricature of him as the villain in the computer-animated hit movie ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'', and wanted to beat him at his own game by doing his own CGI movie full of snarky-self aware humor. Needless to say, it wasn't much of a fight.

--->"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. With this, I wish I could see an alternate reality, what that would have been like. That’s mostly it."

-->"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. With this, I wish I could see an alternate reality, what that would have been like. That’s mostly it."

* CelebrityVoiceActor: Mexican actor and TV host Chabelo voiced Buck Cluck in the Latin American Spanish dub.

* FollowTheLeader: It's no secret that the film's snarky, edgy humor is trying to capitalize on the success of ''{{WesternAnimation/Shrek}}'' (though in this case, it's less anti-Disney humor and more self-deprecation).

* TakeThatTitForTat: Michael Eisner was not thrilled about his former colleague and now rival Jeffery Katzenberg using a caricature of him as the villain in the computer-animated hit movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', and wanted to beat him at his own game by doing his own CGI movie full of snarky-self aware humor. Needless to say, it wasn't much of a fight.

** Another alternative opening, which was almost fully animated, would've show Buck Cluck making breakfast to his son, following the instrutions from a cooking show, showing that Buck is ultimately ''trying'' to be a good parent to his son.

** The first draft of the film stuck closer to the original fairy tale and had Chicken Little as an anxious young girl with an incredibly overactive imagination. She would have had both parents, with her mother Chloe keeping Buck (who back then was called Chuck) grounded. She convinces her parents to send her to summer camp so she can gain courage after the "sky falling" incident. In the camp, however, she and her new friends end up stopping a pack of wolves impersonating the sheep counselors that plans on fatting up the campers so to eat them in a big feast afterwards.