History Trivia / ChickenLittle

* DeletedScene: There's several. You can find them on the DVD and Blu-ray.

** Originally, there was no dodgeball scene. During Launch Time, Chicken Little would explain to his friends the idea of having the chance to have one moment of glory to erase his mistake of the past. The scene would show a bit more of his relationship with Abby, indicating not only she likes him, but he reciprocates the same feeling.

** Producer Creator/RandyFullmer would leave the studio with Dindal to follow a carrer making guitars, and he would not be in another project until Restrung, a 2014 documentary about Randy Fullmer's life. Dindal would be credited in the documentary for making ilustrations.

** A scene from the original version of ''Chicken Little'' would show Buck's relationship with Chole, as he would complain to her wife of him wanted him to have a normal kid. This would accidently leave her daughter heartbroken after hearing that and him apologizing to her for his behavior.

* StillbornFranchise: A DirectToVideo sequel, simply titled ''[[http://animatedviews.com/2008/disneytoon-studios-and-the-sequels-that-never-were-with-tod-carter/ Chicken Little 2]]'', was planned. In it, Chicken Little's his childhood sweetheart Abby Mallard would find herself in a LoveTriangle with him and Raffaela, a French sheep, inspiring her to get a makeover. The film's poor critical reception and the management shakeup at Disney Animation a year later cracked this egg before it could cook.

** Abby Mellard, "The Ugly Duckling" was originally a male duck who was gonna be voiced by Creator/SeanHayes. He was probably called Albert.

** Acording to the commentary, one version of the movie had Chicken Little running away from home and turning himself in a hobo after the Alien incident of last night. This would happen before the aliens would come down and invade the town.

%%* OldShame: After getting slammed for [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks trying to capitalize on the snarky, edgy DreamWorks style]], Disney pretty much forgot that this movie ever happened, helped in part by John Lasseter becoming the new studio head.

** 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's 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.

* DeletedScene: There's serveral. You can find them on the DVD and Blu-Ray.
** A original scene from the original version of Chicken Little would show Buck's relationship with Chole, as he would complain to her wife of him wanted him to have a normal kid. This would accidently leave her daugther heartbroken after hearing that and him apologizing to her for his behavior.
** Originally, there was no dodgeball scene. During Launch Time, Chicken Little would explain to his friends the idea of having the chance to have one moment of glory to erase his mistake of the past. The scene would show a bit more of his relationship with Abby, indicading not only she likes him, but he reciprocates the same feeling.

* DVDCommentary: With director Mark Dindal, producer Randy Fullmer and visual effects supervisor Steve Goldberg. It's only available on the Blu-Ray.
** Strangley enough, Randy Fullmer starts the commentrary saying is the DVD Commentary, even tho, it's only available on the Blu-Ray.

** Acording to the commentary, one version of the movie had Chicken Little running away from home and turning himself in a hobo after the Alien incident of last night. This would happen before the aliens would come down and invaden the town.

** Chloe was alive in the earlier versions of the movie, but according to director Mark Dindal " she smoothed out the conflict" between Chicken Little and his dad, so they killed the character, but not necessarily by following the Disney rule of the dead parent.

** Layout Arist Allen Blaisdell shared his art of one of the spaceships of the movie claming it as "[[https://www.artstation.com/artwork/QzePqrFrom the one movie Disney had the (dis)pleasure of making]]."

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/MarkDindal isn't proud of the end result.

* DVDCommentary: With Director Mark Dindal, Producer Randy Fullmer and Visual Effects Supervisor Steve Goldberg. It's only available on the Blu-Ray.

** The first draft of the film stuck closer to the original fairy tale. It was to be set at a sleepaway camp, Chicken Little [[http://animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/chicklit-13.jpg was]][[https://disneymovieyear.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/chicken-girl.jpg a]] [[http://jimhillmedia.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Components-ImageFileViewer/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles-00-00-00-00-03/0211.Clarke_2D00_5.jpg_2D00_500x0.jpg girl]] and the main villain was "Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing." After Michael Eisner had the main character changed to a boy, and David Stainton asked to re-write the whole picture, the entire story was overhauled into a space-invaders story.

** Eisner's depature also resulted in animation head David Stainton being replaced by Ed Catmull.

** The first draft of the film stuck closer to the original fairy tale. It was to be set at a sleepaway camp, Chicken Little [[http://animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/chicklit-13.jpg was]][[https://disneymovieyear.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/chicken-girl.jpg a]] [[http://jimhillmedia.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Components-ImageFileViewer/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles-00-00-00-00-03/0211.Clarke_2D00_5.jpg_2D00_500x0.jpg girl]] and the main villain was "Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing." After Michael Eisner had the main character changed to a boy, the entire story was overhauled into a space-invaders story.

** A original scene from the original version of Chicken Little would show Buck's relationship with Chole, as he would complain to her wife of him wanted him to have a normal kid. This would accidently leave her daugther heartbroken and him apologizing to her for his behavior.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The movie ''originally'' stuck to the fable by using a female Chicken Little and you can even see the original opening with the female Chicken Little on the DVD special features. Michael Eisner had her changed to a boy to appeal better to young boys.

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/MarkDindal isn't proud of the end result, saying:
** "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."

** 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's has since stuck to producing TV shows through The Tornante Company (including critical darling ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman''), though his creative input has been minimal after the failure of ''WesternAnimation/GlennMartinDDS'', which he co-created.

* StarDerailingRole: Creator/GarryMarshall, whose character was seen as one of the major weak links in the film, had exactly one more starring role in a feature film with ''Keeping Up With The Steins'', released a year later. Outside of a few cameos or bit role on TV, he didn't do much acting afterwards and largely stuck to writing and directing for the rest of his life.

** Director Mark Dindal, whose career was already not doing well after ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' a decade prior, was not credited in another movie until 2019's ''WesternAnimation/WonderPark''. All of the projects he was involved with in-between died in DevelopmentHell.

* StarDerailingRole: Creator/GarryMarshall, who's character was seen as one of the major weak links in the film, had exactly one more starring role in a feature film with ''Keeping Up With The Steins'', released a year later. Outside of a few cameos or bit role on TV, he didn't do much acting afterwards and largely stuck to writing and directing for the rest of his life.

** Director Mark Dindal, who's career was already not doing well after ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' a decade prior, was not credited in another movie until 2019's ''WesternAnimation/WonderPark''. All of the projects he was involved with in-between died in DevelopmentHell.

* CreatorKiller: Though a commercial success, it's poor critical reception and international box office caused a major shakeup in Disney staff.