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** Chief Powhatan and Kekata, whose speaking voices are done by Russell Means (Lakota) and Gordon Tootoosis (Cree-Stoney), respectively, BOTH have their singing done by Creator/JimCummings!
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** Chief Powhatan and Kekata, whose speaking voices are done by Russell Means (Lakota) and Gordon Tootoosis (Cree-Stoney), respectively, BOTH have their singing done by Creator/JimCummings![[Creator/JimCummingsVoiceActor Jim Cummings]]!
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** The tie-in game for the Sega Genesis was meant to receive a port to the SNES, but production on this version fell too far behind and it was ultimately scrapped.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Pocahontas}} Has its own page]].
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Pocahontas}} Has its own page]].
WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The first pass of the story was going to be closer to the actual events (at least as close as [[ArtisticLicense a "fairy tale" version]] could get), with Pocahontas being twelve years old and speaking Powhatan for most of the film, gradually learning how to speak English. Jeff Katzenberg, desperate to earn the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast another Academy Award nomination]], wanted the story to be sexier, both in tone and appearance, in the hopes of [[AnimationAgeGhetto appealing to the Academy Awards' standards of "maturity."]] It was his decision to age Pocahontas up and [[AdaptationalAttractiveness make John Smith more attractive]].
** Judy Kuhn was cast as Pocahontas's singing voice and was told that if they couldn't find a Native American actress, she would be the speaking voice too. Irene Bedard was ultimately cast.
** The animal characters were meant to talk but were made [[TheSpeechless mute]] in order to give the film a more "serious" tone. Russell Means at one point declared "How can this be accurate, there's a talking squirrel in it." He was being funny, since to traditional Indian people squirrels ''do'' talk, and so does everything else in nature.
** Prior to his death in 1994, comedian Creator/JohnCandy recorded a good deal of dialogue for a talking turkey character named Redfeather. Alas, the character was cut, not only after Candy's death, but also after the aforementioned decision to keep the animals mute was made.
** Originally the plan was for Pocahontas to have Flit and Redfeather as her pets and Meeko was the one to be scrapped. After Redfeather was cut for the aforementioned reasons, Meeko was brought back.
** Lyricist Howard Ashman, who had worked on previous Disney animated classics such as ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', was supposed to write the songs for this film as well but died of AIDS prior to completing work on ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', and thus Creator/StephenSchwartz had to fill in for him (this was also what prompted ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar'' and ''Music/{{Evita}}'' lyricist Creator/TimRice to finish Ashman's work on ''Aladdin'', which led to him joining ''The Lion King'' while Menken moved on to ''Pocahontas''.)
** In the July 1995 issue of Disney Adventures magazine which promoted the movie, there's a behind-the-scenes section of pages that includes an early title card from pre-production. It features an early version of Disney's Pocahontas who looks much like Disney's Tiger Lily, with her eyes closed, head held up high, arms folded and surrounded by a few forest animals. This gives the implication that Tiger Lily might have been in consideration to be brought back, but under a different name and to fill in the eponymous role at one point.
** Governor Ratcliffe was originally going to be voiced by Richard White (who previously voiced [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]]), but he was replaced by Creator/DavidOgdenStiers (who had played Cogsworth in [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the same film]]) because the filmmakers felt that audiences would only think of Gaston whenever Ratcliffe spoke if White did the voice.
** A deleted scene reveals Kocoum was supposed to be a Gaston-like, overprotective guy who was forcing Pocahontas to comply to him.
** The deleted scenes from the Blu-ray reveal that Wiggins was originally a lot more villainous, a lot less ditzy and eons more arrogant than the character we see today. He had a very condescending attitude toward the other settlers and displayed the personality of [[PsychopathicManchild an overexcited, childish rich boy]], dressing in full armor and grabbing guns from everywhere over the mere ''excitement'' of getting to shoot Indians.
** Filmmakers ran into a problem while making this, as the three previous Disney films all had a big 'show stopper' number in the middle (think "Under the Sea", "Be Our Guest" and "Friend Like Me"), and they felt pressured to compose one for this. The closest contender was a song called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtEIgPgwU6g In The Middle of the River]]" but they ultimately decided that ''Pocahontas'''s tone didn't lend itself to such a song.
** Grandmother Willow was originally conceived as a character called Old Man River, who was to be voiced by Creator/GregoryPeck. When he read the treatment, Peck insisted that Pocahontas needed a maternal figure to turn to - and thus the character became female.
** Filmmakers were adamant about including Pocahontas's mother as a character, stating they were getting sick of the MissingMom in every Disney film. But in their research, they discovered that Chief Powhatan forged alliances with neighbouring tribes by impregnating a local woman and giving the child away - meaning the real Pocahontas was unlikely to have seen her mother too much. Additionally the mother would have been represented by a star in the sky - and would have appeared at one point to give Pocahontas guidance. This idea was scrapped, as ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' was using a similar concept.
** Creator/BrianBlessed, Creator/BrianCox, Creator/RupertEverett, Creator/StephenFry, and Creator/PatrickStewart were considered for Governor Ratcliffe.
** Creator/RichardEGrant was going to voice Percy until the decision was made to mute the animals.
** Creator/SeanBean nearly was chosen to voice John Smith, but Disney opted to try to find a star that was well-known in America - and Creator/MelGibson was cast instead.
** "Mine, Mine, Mine" was originally supposed to end with a pullout showing the desolation and devastation the English settlers have inflicted in the region. Negative audience reaction changed it to a closeup of Ratcliffe's smug smile.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Mh-AhC-Zo This early trailer]] shows animation of an early Ratcliffe, who appeared to initially have a more comical design.
** "Steady as the Beating Drum" was originally a much faster and more upbeat CrowdSong called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYZ3K6YiLm8 "Dancing to the Wedding Drum"]].
** The first pass of the story was going to be closer to the actual events (at least as close as [[ArtisticLicense a "fairy tale" version]] could get), with Pocahontas being twelve years old and speaking Powhatan for most of the film, gradually learning how to speak English. Jeff Katzenberg, desperate to earn the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast another Academy Award nomination]], wanted the story to be sexier, both in tone and appearance, in the hopes of [[AnimationAgeGhetto appealing to the Academy Awards' standards of "maturity."]] It was his decision to age Pocahontas up and [[AdaptationalAttractiveness make John Smith more attractive]].
** Judy Kuhn was cast as Pocahontas's singing voice and was told that if they couldn't find a Native American actress, she would be the speaking voice too. Irene Bedard was ultimately cast.
** The animal characters were meant to talk but were made [[TheSpeechless mute]] in order to give the film a more "serious" tone. Russell Means at one point declared "How can this be accurate, there's a talking squirrel in it." He was being funny, since to traditional Indian people squirrels ''do'' talk, and so does everything else in nature.
** Prior to his death in 1994, comedian Creator/JohnCandy recorded a good deal of dialogue for a talking turkey character named Redfeather. Alas, the character was cut, not only after Candy's death, but also after the aforementioned decision to keep the animals mute was made.
** Originally the plan was for Pocahontas to have Flit and Redfeather as her pets and Meeko was the one to be scrapped. After Redfeather was cut for the aforementioned reasons, Meeko was brought back.
** Lyricist Howard Ashman, who had worked on previous Disney animated classics such as ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', was supposed to write the songs for this film as well but died of AIDS prior to completing work on ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', and thus Creator/StephenSchwartz had to fill in for him (this was also what prompted ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar'' and ''Music/{{Evita}}'' lyricist Creator/TimRice to finish Ashman's work on ''Aladdin'', which led to him joining ''The Lion King'' while Menken moved on to ''Pocahontas''.)
** In the July 1995 issue of Disney Adventures magazine which promoted the movie, there's a behind-the-scenes section of pages that includes an early title card from pre-production. It features an early version of Disney's Pocahontas who looks much like Disney's Tiger Lily, with her eyes closed, head held up high, arms folded and surrounded by a few forest animals. This gives the implication that Tiger Lily might have been in consideration to be brought back, but under a different name and to fill in the eponymous role at one point.
** Governor Ratcliffe was originally going to be voiced by Richard White (who previously voiced [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]]), but he was replaced by Creator/DavidOgdenStiers (who had played Cogsworth in [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the same film]]) because the filmmakers felt that audiences would only think of Gaston whenever Ratcliffe spoke if White did the voice.
** A deleted scene reveals Kocoum was supposed to be a Gaston-like, overprotective guy who was forcing Pocahontas to comply to him.
** The deleted scenes from the Blu-ray reveal that Wiggins was originally a lot more villainous, a lot less ditzy and eons more arrogant than the character we see today. He had a very condescending attitude toward the other settlers and displayed the personality of [[PsychopathicManchild an overexcited, childish rich boy]], dressing in full armor and grabbing guns from everywhere over the mere ''excitement'' of getting to shoot Indians.
** Filmmakers ran into a problem while making this, as the three previous Disney films all had a big 'show stopper' number in the middle (think "Under the Sea", "Be Our Guest" and "Friend Like Me"), and they felt pressured to compose one for this. The closest contender was a song called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtEIgPgwU6g In The Middle of the River]]" but they ultimately decided that ''Pocahontas'''s tone didn't lend itself to such a song.
** Grandmother Willow was originally conceived as a character called Old Man River, who was to be voiced by Creator/GregoryPeck. When he read the treatment, Peck insisted that Pocahontas needed a maternal figure to turn to - and thus the character became female.
** Filmmakers were adamant about including Pocahontas's mother as a character, stating they were getting sick of the MissingMom in every Disney film. But in their research, they discovered that Chief Powhatan forged alliances with neighbouring tribes by impregnating a local woman and giving the child away - meaning the real Pocahontas was unlikely to have seen her mother too much. Additionally the mother would have been represented by a star in the sky - and would have appeared at one point to give Pocahontas guidance. This idea was scrapped, as ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' was using a similar concept.
** Creator/BrianBlessed, Creator/BrianCox, Creator/RupertEverett, Creator/StephenFry, and Creator/PatrickStewart were considered for Governor Ratcliffe.
** Creator/RichardEGrant was going to voice Percy until the decision was made to mute the animals.
** Creator/SeanBean nearly was chosen to voice John Smith, but Disney opted to try to find a star that was well-known in America - and Creator/MelGibson was cast instead.
** "Mine, Mine, Mine" was originally supposed to end with a pullout showing the desolation and devastation the English settlers have inflicted in the region. Negative audience reaction changed it to a closeup of Ratcliffe's smug smile.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Mh-AhC-Zo This early trailer]] shows animation of an early Ratcliffe, who appeared to initially have a more comical design.
** "Steady as the Beating Drum" was originally a much faster and more upbeat CrowdSong called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYZ3K6YiLm8 "Dancing to the Wedding Drum"]].
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The first pass of the story was going to be closer to the actual events (at least as close as [[ArtisticLicense a "fairy tale" version]] could get), with Pocahontas being twelve years old and speaking Powhatan for most of the film, gradually learning how to speak English. Jeff Katzenberg, desperate to earn the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast another Academy Award nomination]], wanted the story to be sexier, both in tone and appearance, in the hopes of [[AnimationAgeGhetto appealing to the Academy Awards' standards of "maturity."]] It was his decision to age Pocahontas up and [[AdaptationalAttractiveness make John Smith more attractive]].
** Judy Kuhn was cast as Pocahontas's singing voice and was told that if they couldn't find a Native American actress, she would be the speaking voice too. Irene Bedard was ultimately cast.
** The animal characters were meant to talk but were made [[TheSpeechless mute]] in order to give the film a more "serious" tone. Russell Means at one point declared "How can this be accurate, there's a talking squirrel in it." He was being funny, since to traditional Indian people squirrels ''do'' talk, and so does everything else in nature.
** Prior to his death in 1994, comedian Creator/JohnCandy recorded a good deal of dialogue for a talking turkey character named Redfeather. Alas, the character was cut, not only after Candy's death, but also after the aforementioned decision to keep the animals mute was made.
** Originally the plan was for Pocahontas to have Flit and Redfeather as her pets and Meeko was the one to be scrapped. After Redfeather was cut for the aforementioned reasons, Meeko was brought back.
** Lyricist Howard Ashman, who had worked on previous Disney animated classics such as ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', was supposed to write the songs for this film as well but died of AIDS prior to completing work on ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', and thus Creator/StephenSchwartz had to fill in for him (this was also what prompted ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar'' and ''Music/{{Evita}}'' lyricist Creator/TimRice to finish Ashman's work on ''Aladdin'', which led to him joining ''The Lion King'' while Menken moved on to ''Pocahontas''.)
** In the July 1995 issue of Disney Adventures magazine which promoted the movie, there's a behind-the-scenes section of pages that includes an early title card from pre-production. It features an early version of Disney's Pocahontas who looks much like Disney's Tiger Lily, with her eyes closed, head held up high, arms folded and surrounded by a few forest animals. This gives the implication that Tiger Lily might have been in consideration to be brought back, but under a different name and to fill in the eponymous role at one point.
** Governor Ratcliffe was originally going to be voiced by Richard White (who previously voiced [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]]), but he was replaced by Creator/DavidOgdenStiers (who had played Cogsworth in [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the same film]]) because the filmmakers felt that audiences would only think of Gaston whenever Ratcliffe spoke if White did the voice.
** A deleted scene reveals Kocoum was supposed to be a Gaston-like, overprotective guy who was forcing Pocahontas to comply to him.
** The deleted scenes from the Blu-ray reveal that Wiggins was originally a lot more villainous, a lot less ditzy and eons more arrogant than the character we see today. He had a very condescending attitude toward the other settlers and displayed the personality of [[PsychopathicManchild an overexcited, childish rich boy]], dressing in full armor and grabbing guns from everywhere over the mere ''excitement'' of getting to shoot Indians.
** Filmmakers ran into a problem while making this, as the three previous Disney films all had a big 'show stopper' number in the middle (think "Under the Sea", "Be Our Guest" and "Friend Like Me"), and they felt pressured to compose one for this. The closest contender was a song called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtEIgPgwU6g In The Middle of the River]]" but they ultimately decided that ''Pocahontas'''s tone didn't lend itself to such a song.
** Grandmother Willow was originally conceived as a character called Old Man River, who was to be voiced by Creator/GregoryPeck. When he read the treatment, Peck insisted that Pocahontas needed a maternal figure to turn to - and thus the character became female.
** Filmmakers were adamant about including Pocahontas's mother as a character, stating they were getting sick of the MissingMom in every Disney film. But in their research, they discovered that Chief Powhatan forged alliances with neighbouring tribes by impregnating a local woman and giving the child away - meaning the real Pocahontas was unlikely to have seen her mother too much. Additionally the mother would have been represented by a star in the sky - and would have appeared at one point to give Pocahontas guidance. This idea was scrapped, as ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' was using a similar concept.
** Creator/BrianBlessed, Creator/BrianCox, Creator/RupertEverett, Creator/StephenFry, and Creator/PatrickStewart were considered for Governor Ratcliffe.
** Creator/RichardEGrant was going to voice Percy until the decision was made to mute the animals.
** Creator/SeanBean nearly was chosen to voice John Smith, but Disney opted to try to find a star that was well-known in America - and Creator/MelGibson was cast instead.
** "Mine, Mine, Mine" was originally supposed to end with a pullout showing the desolation and devastation the English settlers have inflicted in the region. Negative audience reaction changed it to a closeup of Ratcliffe's smug smile.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Mh-AhC-Zo This early trailer]] shows animation of an early Ratcliffe, who appeared to initially have a more comical design.
** "Steady as the Beating Drum" was originally a much faster and more upbeat CrowdSong called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYZ3K6YiLm8 "Dancing to the Wedding Drum"]].
** The first pass of the story was going to be closer to the actual events (at least as close as [[ArtisticLicense a "fairy tale" version]] could get), with Pocahontas being twelve years old and speaking Powhatan for most of the film, gradually learning how to speak English. Jeff Katzenberg, desperate to earn the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast another Academy Award nomination]], wanted the story to be sexier, both in tone and appearance, in the hopes of [[AnimationAgeGhetto appealing to the Academy Awards' standards of "maturity."]] It was his decision to age Pocahontas up and [[AdaptationalAttractiveness make John Smith more attractive]].
** Judy Kuhn was cast as Pocahontas's singing voice and was told that if they couldn't find a Native American actress, she would be the speaking voice too. Irene Bedard was ultimately cast.
** The animal characters were meant to talk but were made [[TheSpeechless mute]] in order to give the film a more "serious" tone. Russell Means at one point declared "How can this be accurate, there's a talking squirrel in it." He was being funny, since to traditional Indian people squirrels ''do'' talk, and so does everything else in nature.
** Prior to his death in 1994, comedian Creator/JohnCandy recorded a good deal of dialogue for a talking turkey character named Redfeather. Alas, the character was cut, not only after Candy's death, but also after the aforementioned decision to keep the animals mute was made.
** Originally the plan was for Pocahontas to have Flit and Redfeather as her pets and Meeko was the one to be scrapped. After Redfeather was cut for the aforementioned reasons, Meeko was brought back.
** Lyricist Howard Ashman, who had worked on previous Disney animated classics such as ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', was supposed to write the songs for this film as well but died of AIDS prior to completing work on ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', and thus Creator/StephenSchwartz had to fill in for him (this was also what prompted ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar'' and ''Music/{{Evita}}'' lyricist Creator/TimRice to finish Ashman's work on ''Aladdin'', which led to him joining ''The Lion King'' while Menken moved on to ''Pocahontas''.)
** In the July 1995 issue of Disney Adventures magazine which promoted the movie, there's a behind-the-scenes section of pages that includes an early title card from pre-production. It features an early version of Disney's Pocahontas who looks much like Disney's Tiger Lily, with her eyes closed, head held up high, arms folded and surrounded by a few forest animals. This gives the implication that Tiger Lily might have been in consideration to be brought back, but under a different name and to fill in the eponymous role at one point.
** Governor Ratcliffe was originally going to be voiced by Richard White (who previously voiced [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]]), but he was replaced by Creator/DavidOgdenStiers (who had played Cogsworth in [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the same film]]) because the filmmakers felt that audiences would only think of Gaston whenever Ratcliffe spoke if White did the voice.
** A deleted scene reveals Kocoum was supposed to be a Gaston-like, overprotective guy who was forcing Pocahontas to comply to him.
** The deleted scenes from the Blu-ray reveal that Wiggins was originally a lot more villainous, a lot less ditzy and eons more arrogant than the character we see today. He had a very condescending attitude toward the other settlers and displayed the personality of [[PsychopathicManchild an overexcited, childish rich boy]], dressing in full armor and grabbing guns from everywhere over the mere ''excitement'' of getting to shoot Indians.
** Filmmakers ran into a problem while making this, as the three previous Disney films all had a big 'show stopper' number in the middle (think "Under the Sea", "Be Our Guest" and "Friend Like Me"), and they felt pressured to compose one for this. The closest contender was a song called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtEIgPgwU6g In The Middle of the River]]" but they ultimately decided that ''Pocahontas'''s tone didn't lend itself to such a song.
** Grandmother Willow was originally conceived as a character called Old Man River, who was to be voiced by Creator/GregoryPeck. When he read the treatment, Peck insisted that Pocahontas needed a maternal figure to turn to - and thus the character became female.
** Filmmakers were adamant about including Pocahontas's mother as a character, stating they were getting sick of the MissingMom in every Disney film. But in their research, they discovered that Chief Powhatan forged alliances with neighbouring tribes by impregnating a local woman and giving the child away - meaning the real Pocahontas was unlikely to have seen her mother too much. Additionally the mother would have been represented by a star in the sky - and would have appeared at one point to give Pocahontas guidance. This idea was scrapped, as ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' was using a similar concept.
** Creator/BrianBlessed, Creator/BrianCox, Creator/RupertEverett, Creator/StephenFry, and Creator/PatrickStewart were considered for Governor Ratcliffe.
** Creator/RichardEGrant was going to voice Percy until the decision was made to mute the animals.
** Creator/SeanBean nearly was chosen to voice John Smith, but Disney opted to try to find a star that was well-known in America - and Creator/MelGibson was cast instead.
** "Mine, Mine, Mine" was originally supposed to end with a pullout showing the desolation and devastation the English settlers have inflicted in the region. Negative audience reaction changed it to a closeup of Ratcliffe's smug smile.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Mh-AhC-Zo This early trailer]] shows animation of an early Ratcliffe, who appeared to initially have a more comical design.
** "Steady as the Beating Drum" was originally a much faster and more upbeat CrowdSong called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYZ3K6YiLm8 "Dancing to the Wedding Drum"]].
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The first pass of the story was going to be closer to the actual events (at least as close as [[ArtisticLicense a "fairy tale" version]] could get), with Pocahontas being twelve years old and speaking Powhatan for most of the film, gradually learning how to speak English. Jeff Katzenberg, desperate to earn the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast another Academy Award nomination]], wanted the story to be sexier, both in tone and appearance, in the hopes of [[AnimationAgeGhetto appealing to the Academy Awards' standards of "maturity."]] It was his decision to age Pocahontas up and [[AdaptationalAttractiveness make John Smith more attractive]].
** Judy Kuhn was cast as Pocahontas's singing voice and was told that if they couldn't find a Native American actress, she would be the speaking voice too. Irene Bedard was ultimately cast.
** The animal characters were meant to talk but were made [[TheSpeechless mute]] in order to give the film a more "serious" tone. Russell Means at one point declared "How can this be accurate, there's a talking squirrel in it." He was being funny, since to traditional Indian people squirrels ''do'' talk, and so does everything else in nature.
** Prior to his death in 1994, comedian Creator/JohnCandy recorded a good deal of dialogue for a talking turkey character named Redfeather. Alas, the character was cut, not only after Candy's death, but also after the aforementioned decision to keep the animals mute was made.
** Originally the plan was for Pocahontas to have Flit and Redfeather as her pets and Meeko was the one to be scrapped. After Redfeather was cut for the aforementioned reasons, Meeko was brought back.
** Lyricist Howard Ashman, who had worked on previous Disney animated classics such as ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', was supposed to write the songs for this film as well but died of AIDS prior to completing work on ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', and thus Creator/StephenSchwartz had to fill in for him (this was also what prompted ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar'' and ''Music/{{Evita}}'' lyricist Creator/TimRice to finish Ashman's work on ''Aladdin'', which led to him joining ''The Lion King'' while Menken moved on to ''Pocahontas''.)
** In the July 1995 issue of Disney Adventures magazine which promoted the movie, there's a behind-the-scenes section of pages that includes an early title card from pre-production. It features an early version of Disney's Pocahontas who looks much like Disney's Tiger Lily, with her eyes closed, head held up high, arms folded and surrounded by a few forest animals. This gives the implication that Tiger Lily might have been in consideration to be brought back, but under a different name and to fill in the eponymous role at one point.
** Governor Ratcliffe was originally going to be voiced by Richard White (who previously voiced [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]]), but he was replaced by Creator/DavidOgdenStiers (who had played Cogsworth in [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the same film]]) because the filmmakers felt that audiences would only think of Gaston whenever Ratcliffe spoke if White did the voice.
** A deleted scene reveals Kocoum was supposed to be a Gaston-like, overprotective guy who was forcing Pocahontas to comply to him.
** The deleted scenes from the Blu-ray reveal that Wiggins was originally a lot more villainous, a lot less ditzy and eons more arrogant than the character we see today. He had a very condescending attitude toward the other settlers and displayed the personality of [[PsychopathicManchild an overexcited, childish rich boy]], dressing in full armor and grabbing guns from everywhere over the mere ''excitement'' of getting to shoot Indians.
** Filmmakers ran into a problem while making this, as the three previous Disney films all had a big 'show stopper' number in the middle (think "Under the Sea", "Be Our Guest" and "Friend Like Me"), and they felt pressured to compose one for this. The closest contender was a song called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtEIgPgwU6g In The Middle of the River]]" but they ultimately decided that ''Pocahontas'''s tone didn't lend itself to such a song.
** Grandmother Willow was originally conceived as a character called Old Man River, who was to be voiced by Creator/GregoryPeck. When he read the treatment, Peck insisted that Pocahontas needed a maternal figure to turn to - and thus the character became female.
** Filmmakers were adamant about including Pocahontas's mother as a character, stating they were getting sick of the MissingMom in every Disney film. But in their research, they discovered that Chief Powhatan forged alliances with neighbouring tribes by impregnating a local woman and giving the child away - meaning the real Pocahontas was unlikely to have seen her mother too much. Additionally the mother would have been represented by a star in the sky - and would have appeared at one point to give Pocahontas guidance. This idea was scrapped, as ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' was using a similar concept.
** Creator/BrianBlessed, Creator/BrianCox, Creator/RupertEverett, Creator/StephenFry, and Creator/PatrickStewart were considered for Governor Ratcliffe.
** Creator/RichardEGrant was going to voice Percy until the decision was made to mute the animals.
** Creator/SeanBean nearly was chosen to voice John Smith, but Disney opted to try to find a star that was well-known in America - and Creator/MelGibson was cast instead.
** "Mine, Mine, Mine" was originally supposed to end with a pullout showing the desolation and devastation the English settlers have inflicted in the region. Negative audience reaction changed it to a closeup of Ratcliffe's smug smile.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Mh-AhC-Zo This early trailer]] shows animation of an early Ratcliffe, who appeared to initially have a more comical design.
** "Steady as the Beating Drum" was originally a much faster and more upbeat CrowdSong called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYZ3K6YiLm8 "Dancing to the Wedding Drum"]].
WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Pocahontas}} Has its own page]].
** The first pass of the story was going to be closer to the actual events (at least as close as [[ArtisticLicense a "fairy tale" version]] could get), with Pocahontas being twelve years old and speaking Powhatan for most of the film, gradually learning how to speak English. Jeff Katzenberg, desperate to earn the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast another Academy Award nomination]], wanted the story to be sexier, both in tone and appearance, in the hopes of [[AnimationAgeGhetto appealing to the Academy Awards' standards of "maturity."]] It was his decision to age Pocahontas up and [[AdaptationalAttractiveness make John Smith more attractive]].
** Judy Kuhn was cast as Pocahontas's singing voice and was told that if they couldn't find a Native American actress, she would be the speaking voice too. Irene Bedard was ultimately cast.
** The animal characters were meant to talk but were made [[TheSpeechless mute]] in order to give the film a more "serious" tone. Russell Means at one point declared "How can this be accurate, there's a talking squirrel in it." He was being funny, since to traditional Indian people squirrels ''do'' talk, and so does everything else in nature.
** Prior to his death in 1994, comedian Creator/JohnCandy recorded a good deal of dialogue for a talking turkey character named Redfeather. Alas, the character was cut, not only after Candy's death, but also after the aforementioned decision to keep the animals mute was made.
** Originally the plan was for Pocahontas to have Flit and Redfeather as her pets and Meeko was the one to be scrapped. After Redfeather was cut for the aforementioned reasons, Meeko was brought back.
** Lyricist Howard Ashman, who had worked on previous Disney animated classics such as ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', was supposed to write the songs for this film as well but died of AIDS prior to completing work on ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', and thus Creator/StephenSchwartz had to fill in for him (this was also what prompted ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar'' and ''Music/{{Evita}}'' lyricist Creator/TimRice to finish Ashman's work on ''Aladdin'', which led to him joining ''The Lion King'' while Menken moved on to ''Pocahontas''.)
** In the July 1995 issue of Disney Adventures magazine which promoted the movie, there's a behind-the-scenes section of pages that includes an early title card from pre-production. It features an early version of Disney's Pocahontas who looks much like Disney's Tiger Lily, with her eyes closed, head held up high, arms folded and surrounded by a few forest animals. This gives the implication that Tiger Lily might have been in consideration to be brought back, but under a different name and to fill in the eponymous role at one point.
** Governor Ratcliffe was originally going to be voiced by Richard White (who previously voiced [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]]), but he was replaced by Creator/DavidOgdenStiers (who had played Cogsworth in [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the same film]]) because the filmmakers felt that audiences would only think of Gaston whenever Ratcliffe spoke if White did the voice.
** A deleted scene reveals Kocoum was supposed to be a Gaston-like, overprotective guy who was forcing Pocahontas to comply to him.
** The deleted scenes from the Blu-ray reveal that Wiggins was originally a lot more villainous, a lot less ditzy and eons more arrogant than the character we see today. He had a very condescending attitude toward the other settlers and displayed the personality of [[PsychopathicManchild an overexcited, childish rich boy]], dressing in full armor and grabbing guns from everywhere over the mere ''excitement'' of getting to shoot Indians.
** Filmmakers ran into a problem while making this, as the three previous Disney films all had a big 'show stopper' number in the middle (think "Under the Sea", "Be Our Guest" and "Friend Like Me"), and they felt pressured to compose one for this. The closest contender was a song called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtEIgPgwU6g In The Middle of the River]]" but they ultimately decided that ''Pocahontas'''s tone didn't lend itself to such a song.
** Grandmother Willow was originally conceived as a character called Old Man River, who was to be voiced by Creator/GregoryPeck. When he read the treatment, Peck insisted that Pocahontas needed a maternal figure to turn to - and thus the character became female.
** Filmmakers were adamant about including Pocahontas's mother as a character, stating they were getting sick of the MissingMom in every Disney film. But in their research, they discovered that Chief Powhatan forged alliances with neighbouring tribes by impregnating a local woman and giving the child away - meaning the real Pocahontas was unlikely to have seen her mother too much. Additionally the mother would have been represented by a star in the sky - and would have appeared at one point to give Pocahontas guidance. This idea was scrapped, as ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' was using a similar concept.
** Creator/BrianBlessed, Creator/BrianCox, Creator/RupertEverett, Creator/StephenFry, and Creator/PatrickStewart were considered for Governor Ratcliffe.
** Creator/RichardEGrant was going to voice Percy until the decision was made to mute the animals.
** Creator/SeanBean nearly was chosen to voice John Smith, but Disney opted to try to find a star that was well-known in America - and Creator/MelGibson was cast instead.
** "Mine, Mine, Mine" was originally supposed to end with a pullout showing the desolation and devastation the English settlers have inflicted in the region. Negative audience reaction changed it to a closeup of Ratcliffe's smug smile.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Mh-AhC-Zo This early trailer]] shows animation of an early Ratcliffe, who appeared to initially have a more comical design.
** "Steady as the Beating Drum" was originally a much faster and more upbeat CrowdSong called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYZ3K6YiLm8 "Dancing to the Wedding Drum"]].
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* MagnumOpusDissonance: The studio had high hopes for the film, hoping it would gain an Oscar nomination for Best Picture as ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' had. This and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' were in production at the same time, and many animators opted to work on this as they and studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg saw it as the more prestigious project of the two (Ironically, Katzenberg was one of the creative leads on ''The Lion King''). The latter became an insane success. And while this was a significant hit, it received polarizing reactions (Katzenberg was spared some of this backlash due to resigning from Disney after ''The Lion King'' hit theaters the year prior; the "Reject the winner/embrace the somewhat runner-up" deal had happened to him before with ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', and would happen to him at least once more with ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'').
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* MagnumOpusDissonance: The studio had high hopes for the film, hoping it would gain an Oscar nomination for Best Picture as ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' had. This and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' were in production at the same time, and many animators opted to work on this as they and studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg saw it as the more prestigious project of the two (Ironically, Katzenberg was one of the creative leads on ''The Lion King''). The latter became an insane success. And while this was a significant hit, it received polarizing reactions (Katzenberg was spared some of this backlash due to resigning from Disney after ''The Lion King'' hit theaters the year prior; the "Reject the winner/embrace the somewhat runner-up" deal had happened to him before with ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', and would happen to him at least once more with ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'').''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'').
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** Zig-zagged with Creator/MelGibson: American-born and raised in Australia, here playing the British John Smith, NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.
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** Borderline example with Creator/ChristianBale, who is Welsh, but had an English accent already. He uses his natural voice for Thomas. Ironically Bale says that Thomas was originally envisioned as Irish or Scottish.
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* ActingForTwo: Creator/DavidOgdenStiers voiced both Radcliffe and Wiggins. Thus, in the numerous scenes between the two, Stiers is doing all the voice work.
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* TalkingToHimself: Creator/DavidOgdenStiers voiced both Radcliffe and Wiggins. Thus, in the numerous scenes between the two, Stiers is doing all the voice work.
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* MagnumOpusDissonance: The studio had high hopes for the film, hoping it would gain an Oscar nomination as ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' had. This and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' were in production at the same time, and many animators opted to work on this as they and studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg saw it as the more prestigious project of the two (Ironically, Katzenberg was one of the creative leads on ''The Lion King''). The latter became an insane success. And while this was a significant hit, it received polarizing reactions (Katzenberg was spared some of this backlash due to resigning from Disney after ''The Lion King'' hit theaters the year prior; the "Reject the winner/embrace the somewhat runner-up" deal had happened to him before with ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', and would happen to him at least once more with ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'').
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* MagnumOpusDissonance: The studio had high hopes for the film, hoping it would gain an Oscar nomination for Best Picture as ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' had. This and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' were in production at the same time, and many animators opted to work on this as they and studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg saw it as the more prestigious project of the two (Ironically, Katzenberg was one of the creative leads on ''The Lion King''). The latter became an insane success. And while this was a significant hit, it received polarizing reactions (Katzenberg was spared some of this backlash due to resigning from Disney after ''The Lion King'' hit theaters the year prior; the "Reject the winner/embrace the somewhat runner-up" deal had happened to him before with ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', and would happen to him at least once more with ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'').
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** Filmmakers ran into a problem while making this, as the three previous Disney films all had a big 'show stopper' number in the middle (think "Under the Sea", "Be Our Guest" and "Never Had A Friend Like Me"), and they felt pressured to compose one for this. The closest contender was a song called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtEIgPgwU6g In The Middle of the River]]" but they ultimately decided that ''Pocahontas'''s tone didn't lend itself to such a song.
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** Filmmakers ran into a problem while making this, as the three previous Disney films all had a big 'show stopper' number in the middle (think "Under the Sea", "Be Our Guest" and "Never Had A Friend "Friend Like Me"), and they felt pressured to compose one for this. The closest contender was a song called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtEIgPgwU6g In The Middle of the River]]" but they ultimately decided that ''Pocahontas'''s tone didn't lend itself to such a song.
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* KidsMealToy:
** At Burger King, got collectible cups, figurines, and hide-and-seek finger puppets.
** At the European [=McDonalds=], it got action figures.
** At Burger King, got collectible cups, figurines, and hide-and-seek finger puppets.
** At the European [=McDonalds=], it got action figures.
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* FocusGroupEnding: The love duet "If I Never Knew You" (save for an end credits version) because kids found it too boring; it was later animated and reinserted into the film for its 10th anniversary DVD. Several critics felt it significantly improved the film. Ironically, "If I Never Knew You" was reinserted because so many Disney fans fell in love with it and called it one of Disney's very best love songs.
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* FocusGroupEnding: The love duet "If I Never Knew You" was cut (save for an end credits version) because kids found it too boring; it was later animated and reinserted into the film for its 10th anniversary DVD. Several critics felt it significantly improved the film. Ironically, "If I Never Knew You" was reinserted because so many Disney fans fell in love with it and called it one of Disney's very best love songs.
