History Trivia / ChickenLittle

** 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.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: In the Japanese dub, [[Creator/RikaFukami Foxy Loxy]] and [[Creator/KotonoMitsuishi Tina the Alien Mom]] previously worked together as [[Anime/SailorMoon Sailor Venus and Sailor Moon respectively]].

* InMemoriam: Dedicated to the memory of legandary Disney story artist Joe Grant (1908-2005).

* NamesTheSame: This isn't the only work with [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} an alien named Kirby]].
* OldShame: Disney seems to be aware this is considered one of their worst films, as they've done next to nothing to acknowledge its existence for many years. This is probably most apparent when ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' was being released, and Disney would usually cite the forty-seven year old film ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' as an example of another film of theirs with a cast of anthropomorphic animals...yet would always forget to mention the much more closely released ''Chicken Little.'' However, it is available on Creator/DisneyPlus.

* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/ZachBraff had so much fun voicing the character. [[https://d23.com/podcast/d23-inside-disney-episode-130/ He even wants to do a reboot]].

* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/ZachBraff had so much fun voicing the character despite the mixed reception of the movie. [[https://d23.com/podcast/d23-inside-disney-episode-130/ He even wants to do a reboot]].

** 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.

** 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. In the camp, however, she and her new friends end up stopping a pack of wolves impersonating the sheep counselors that is planning to fat up the campers and eat them in a big feast afterwards.

** Abby Mallard, "The Ugly Duckling" was originally a male duck who was to be voiced by Creator/SeanHayes. After the decision to turn Chicken Little into a female character, her love interest was likewise flipped into a girl.

** The movie originally stuck to the fable by using Henny Penny, 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.

** 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. In the camp, however, she and her new friends end up stopping a pack of wolves impersonating the sheep counselors and that is planning on fatting up the campers so to eat them in a big feast.

** The first draft of the film stuck closer to the original fairy tale, starring Henny Penny, an anxious young girl with an incredibly overactive imagination. Henny would have had both parents, with her mother Chole keeping Buck grounded. She convinces her parents to send her to summer camp so she can gain courage and friends, and her and her new friends end up stopping a pack of wolves impersonating the counselors from eating the campers.

** Abby Mallard, "The Ugly Duckling" was originally a male duck who was to be voiced by Creator/SeanHayes. After the decision to make Henny Penny into Chicken Little, her love interest was likewise flipped into a girl.

* According to the commentary, one version of the movie had Chicken Little running away from home and turning himself into a hobo after the alien incident. This would happen before the aliens would come down and invade the town. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty0FwxcQseI Storyboards can be seen at the beginning of this video, presented by head of story, Mark Kennedy]]

** Producer Randy Fullmer 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 illustrations.

** 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 Disney movie had the (dis)pleasure of making]]."

** A scene from the original version of ''Chicken Little'' would show Buck's relationship with Chloe, as he would complain to her wife of him wanted him to have a normal kid. This would accidentally leave her daughter heartbroken after hearing that and him apologizing to her for his behavior.
** Originally, there was no dodgeball scene. During Lunchtime, 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.

** 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. It would've shown Buck Cluck to be a decent parent who tries to be a good father to his child, even if he accidently admitted on TV that he believes his son is crazy.

** 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.
** David Stainton asked Mark Dindal to re-write the story because it needed a different approach. It doesn't helped that Dindal had to work with the three credited writers and nine others to go to through out twenty-five scenes.

** 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.

** Abby Mallard, "The Ugly Duckling" was originally a male duck who was to be voiced by Creator/SeanHayes. He was probably called Albert.
** 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.
** According to the commentary, one version of the movie had Chicken Little running away from home and turning himself into a hobo after the alien incident. This would happen before the aliens would come down and invade the town.
** There was an alternative version of the Alien Invasion, in which the citizens of Oakey Oaks would've follow Chicken Little while they would try to attack the aliens. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty0FwxcQseI Storyboards can be seen at the beginning of this video, presented by head of story, Mark Kennedy]]

* OldShame: Disney seems to be aware this is considered one of their worst films, as they've done next to nothing to acknowledge its existence for many years. This is probably most apparent when ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' was being released, and Disney would usually cite the forty-seven year old film ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' as an example of another film of theirs with a cast of anthropomorphic animals...yet would always forget to mention the much more closely released ''Chicken Little.'' However, it is available on Creator/DisneyPlus.

* FanPreferredCutContent: A deleted scene on the DVD shows Buck cooking breakfast for Chicken Little and defending him from a crowd of angry reporters. Some fans believe it would be better if this scene had been left in the final product, because it makes him more likable by showing that he does care about his son.

* FanPreferredCutContent: A deleted scene on the DVD shows Buck cooking breakfast for Chicken Little and defending him from a crowd of angry reporters. Some fans believe it would be better if this scene had been left in, because it makes him more likable by showing that he does care about his son.

* FanPreferredCutContent: A deleted scene on the DVD shows Buck cooking breakfast for Chicken Little and defending him from a crowd of angry reporters. Some fans believe it would be better if this scene had been left in, because it does a better job of showing that even if he's not the best father in the world, he really does care about his son.

** 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. It would've shown Buck Cluck to be a decent parent who tries to be a good father to his child, even if he accidently admited on TV that he believes his son is crazy.
* DVDCommentary: With director Mark Dindal, producer Randy Fullmer and visual effects supervisor Steve Goldberg. Strangely enough, Randy Fullmer starts the commentary saying is the DVD Commentary, even though it's only available on the Blu-ray.

** David Stainton asked Mark Dindal to re-write the story because it needed a different approach. It doesn't helped that Dindal had to work with the three credited writers and nine others to go to threw out twenty-five scenes.

** There was an alternative version of the Alien Invasion, in which the citizens of Oakey Oaks would've follow Chicken Little while they would try to attack the aliens. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty0FwxcQseI Storyboards can be seen at the beggining of this video, presented by head of story, Mark Kennedy]]

** 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''. All of the projects he was involved with in-between died in DevelopmentHell.

* ImageSource: Fish Out of Water gives us MobileFishbowl.

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** Producer Randy Fullmer 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.

** Rather than the fake-out that appeared in the final film, the movie had an actual StorybookOpening completely animated, which would have panned out to a bookstore window with Chicken Little seeing that it's "soon a major motion picture" and wondering how he's even gonna live this down.

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

** Turkey Luckey would have a short conversation with Buck after the aliens incident, and would give to him a "Show your Support" patch.

* OldShame: Disney seems to be aware this is considered one of their worst films, as they've done next to nothing to acknowledge its existence for many years. This is probably most apparent when ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' was being released, and Disney would usually cite the forty-seven year old film ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' as an example of another film of theirs with a cast of anthropomorphic animals...yet would always forget to mention the much more closely released ''Chicken Little.''

** There was an alternative version of the Alien Invasion, in which the citizens of Oakey Oaks would've follow Chicken Little while they would try to attack the aliens. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty0FwxcQseI Storyboards can be seen in the video, presented by head of story, Mark Kennedy]]