History Trivia / QuestForCamelot

* CreatorBacklash:
** Many of the animators who worked on this movie did not have fond memories of it.

* CreatorBacklash: Many of the animators who worked on this movie did not have fond memories of it.

** The film was originally going to be directed by Bill and Susan Kroyer, the [[CreatorCouple husband-and-wife]] team behind ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'', and the film was originally meant to be a much darker, more faithful adaptation of Vera Chapman's novel ''The King's Damsel''. However, when Frederik Du Chau replaced the Kroyers as the director, he overhauled the storyline and turned it from a dark and faithful story into an very loose Disney-esque musical just to compete with Disney. It didn't work out so well and was a [[BoxOfficeBomb complete box-office failure]]. The move banished his career to the B and C lists in the end for it. The firing of the Kroyers also lead to the cancellation of other films in development such as ''King Tut'', ''Arrow'', and ''The Snow Queen''.

** Warner Bros. was banking entirely on the success of this film to ensure that they would have a future in animated features (one of the reasons ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' was ScrewedByTheNetwork was so it wouldn't "outshine" this one!). When it flopped, WB halted production on all of their animated films still in development and stopped investing in advertisements of the three films it still had in production, ensuring that they'd all die quickly and quietly as a way to let their feature animation division peter out.

* TheOtherMarty: Creator/ChristopherReeve was originally cast as King Arthur, but was replaced by Creator/PierceBrosnan when he became unavailable to record new dialogue. Interestingly, [[OrphanedReference King Arthur wears a blue and red outfit very similar Superman’s iconic costume in the final few minutes of the finished movie,]] which probably would have been [[ActorAllusion an allusion to Reeve’s iconic portrayal of Superman]].

* TheWikiRule: Has a wiki [[http://questforcamelot.wikia.com/wiki/Quest_for_Camelot_Wiki here]].

* ReleaseDateChange: The film was meant to open for Christmas 1997, but was pushed back to May 1998 to avoid serious competition with ''Film/AlienResurrection'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', ''Film/{{The Borrowers|1997}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheFearlessFour'', ''Film/{{Flubber}}'', ''Film/HomeAlone3'', ''Film/{{Mousehunt}}'', ''Film/MrMagoo'', ''Film/Titanic1997'', and the re-release of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}''. Ultimately, it didn't help much.
* ReleaseDateChange: The film was anounced to be released on November 1997 but was later changed to May 1998 to finish the film.

-->"Hey, I worked on that movie and I hate it too. Even though my name was in the credits, I didn't own it for over a decade."

* ThrowItIn: Subverted. Creator/EricIdle said he and Creator/DonRickles "ad-libbed for days" but none of it was used in the film.
** As stated above, the songs were inserted very late into production; you can tell by how they [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment don't impact or move the plot forward]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was originally conceived as a darker, edgier and generally more serious PG-13 adventure as it was based on a very dark and serious book, ''The King's Damsel'', before being retooled into a more family-friendly Disney-style production just to compete with Disney.

* TheOtherMarty: Creator/ChristopherReeve was originally cast as King Arthur, but was replaced by Creator/PierceBrosnan when he became unavailable to record new dialogue. Interestingly, King Arthur wears a blue and red outfit very similar Superman’s iconic costume in the final few minutes of the movie, [[OrphanedReference which probably would have been [[ActorAllusion an allusion to Reeve’s iconic portrayal as Superman]]]].

* TheOtherMarty: Creator/ChristopherReeve was originally cast as King Arthur, but was replaced by Creator/PierceBrosnan when he became unavailable to record new dialogue.

* WorkingTitle: Quest and then later ''The Quest for the Grail''.

* WorkingTitle: ''The Quest for the Grail''.

* TroubledProduction: As mentioned above, the film went through numerous changes that led to its Disneyfication. Both Lauren Faust and a handful of other animators who worked on it have unkind memories of this film, full of stubborn executives and a script they hated. Even other staff members who were working on other animated productions (most notably production staff on ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'', including Creator/BradBird) could hear [[RightThroughTheWall very loud arguments over the film's direction in the next building over]]. It was also stated by animator David Germain that producer Dalisa Cooper Cohen hated animation, and there were rumors that her disdain for the project was due to Warner Bros. [[KickedUpstairs demoting her to animation after a film she co-produced]], ''Film/ALittlePrincess1995'', failed at the box office ([[HoistByHisOwnPetard thanks to WB's own shoddy marketing efforts]]).

** Animator Creator/LaurenFaust has spoken at length on how she hated making this film. She admitted that Creator/WarnerBros only wanted profits. Faust also hated how the animators were rushed to finish the film on time. Along with the other animators, she knew that the film was going to bomb and they were right. In the end, she agreed that the original PG-13 version would be better.

** It was also a sign that the animated musical was about to go into hibernation; this was one of a slew of animated musicals, with Creator/DreamWorks doing their own with ''Prince of Egypt'', which was much more well-received. It didn't take long for DWA to crush the genre and replace Warner as Disney's top ArchEnemy on the back of films like this.

* OldShame: None of the animators who worked on this movie like it. Creator/LaurenFaust, whose staunch feminist philosophies are a complete 180 from [[FauxActionGirl this film's standards of a strong female character]], has been particularly brutal to it in the years since. She later admitted that she had no idea what the movie was actually about when she was animating for it and was furious once she saw it.

* NamesTheSame: Not the only [[Literature/HarryPotter Forbidden Forest out there]].

* TroubledProduction: As mentioned above, the film went through numerous changes that led to its Disneyfication. Both Lauren Faust and a handful of other animators who worked on it have unkind memories of this film, full of stubborn executives and a script they hated. Even other staff members who were working on other animated productions (most notably production staff on ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'', including Creator/BradBird) could hear [[RightThroughTheWall very loud arguments over the film's direction in the next building over]]. It was also stated by animator David Germain that producer Dalisa Cooper Cohen hated animation, and there were rumors that her disdain for the project was due to Warner Bros. [[KickedUpstairs demoting her to animation after a film she co-produced]], the 1995 adaptation of ''Film/ALittlePrincess'', failed at the box office ([[HoistByHisOwnPetard thanks to WB's own shoddy marketing efforts]]).

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget: $40 million. Box office: $22,510,798 (domestically). Despite schedule changes to avoid stiff competition from ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', it wasn't enough to save the film from tepid-to-negative reception. It didn't help that this Disnyesque film was going up against not one by ''two'' films from the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon (''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' and the reissue of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}''), which critics unfavorably compared it to. One of the more infamous reasons why the film failed was a botched Wendy's Kids Meal promotion -- the toys that came with the meals ''also'' gave tickets for adults to pay child admittance prices to see the film, which cut a lot of their box-office in half.

** Originally, Creator/ChristopherReeve was cast to voice King Arther and recorded some dialog, but was later replaced by Creator/PierceBrosnan when Reeve was unavailable for recording new dialog.

** Warner Bros. was banking entirely on the success of this film to ensure that they would have a future in animated features (one of the reasons ''Film/CatsDontDance'' was ScrewedByTheNetwork was so it wouldn't "outshine" this one!). When it flopped, WB halted production on all of their animated films still in development and stopped investing in advertisements of the three films it still had in production, ensuring that they'd all die quickly and quietly as a way to let their feature animation division peter out.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget: $40 million. Box office: $22,510,798 (domestically). Despite schedule changes to avoid stiff competition from ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', it wasn't enough to save the film from tepid-to-negative reception. It didn't help that this Disnyesque film was going up against not one by ''two'' films from the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon (''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' and the reissue of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}''), which critics unfavorably compared it to. One of the more infamous reasons why the film failed is a Wendy's Kids Meal promotion toys gave tickets for adults to pay child admittance prices to see the film which cut a lot of their box-office in half.

** Warner Bros. was banking entirely on the success of this film to ensure that they would have a future in animated features. When it flopped, WB halted production on all of it's animated films still in development and stopped investing in advertisements of the three films it still had in production, ensuring that they'd all die quickly and quietly as a way to let their feature animation division peter out.

** The film was originally going to be directed by Bill and Susan Kroyer, the [[CreatorCouple husband-and-wife]] team behind ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'', and the film was originally meant to be a much darker, more faithful adaptation of Vera Chapman's novel ''The King's Damosel.'' However, when Frederik Du Chau replaced the Kroyers as the director, he overhauled the storyline and turned it from a dark and faithful story into an very loose Disney-esque musical just to compete with Disney. It didn't work out so well and was a [[BoxOfficeBomb complete box-office failure]]. The move banished his career to the B and C lists in the end for it. The firing of the Kroyers also lead to the cancellation of other films in development such as King Tut, Arrow, and The Snow Queen.

** As stated above, The songs were given very late into production as you can tell by how they [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment don't impact or move the plot forward]].
* TroubledProduction: As mentioned above, the film went through numerous changes that led to its Disneyfication. Both Lauren Faust and a handful of other animators who worked on it have unkind memories of this film, full of stubborn executives and a script they hated. Even other staff members who were working on other animated productions (most notably production staff on WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant including Creator/BradBird) could hear [[RightThroughTheWall very loud arguments over the film's direction in the next building over]]. It was also stated by animator David Germain that producer Dalisa Cooper Cohen hated animation, and there were rumors that her disdai for the project was due to Warner Bros. [[KickedUpstairs demoted her to animation after a film she co-produced]], the 1995 adaptation of ''Film/ALittlePrincess'', failed at the box office ([[HoistByHisOwnPetard thanks to WB's own shoddy marketing efforts]]).

** As mentioned above, Plans for sequels based off both "The Green Knight" and "King Arthur's Daughter" but due to the films Critical and Box-Office failure they were immediately scrapped.
** Originally ''Creator/ChristopherReeve'' was cast to voice King Arther and recorded some dialog but was later replaced by Creator/PierceBrosnan when Reeve was unavailable for recording new dialog.
** A Nintendo 64 video game was also planned but was scrapped also due to the Critical and Box-Office failure but the Game Boy Color game was released as well as the PC game "Quest for Camelot Dragon Games".

* TroubledProduction: As mentioned above, the film went through numerous changes that led to its Disneyfication. Both Lauren Faust and a handful of other animators who worked on it have unkind memories of this film, full of stubborn executives and a script they hated. Even other staff members who were working on other animated productions (most notably production staff on WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant including Creator/BradBird) could hear [[RightThroughTheWall very loud arguments over the film's direction in the next building over]]. It was also stated by one of the animators David Germain that the producer Dalisa Cooper Cohen hated animation and there were rumors that her distant for the project was due to Warner Bros. Live-Action decision demoted her to animation after the film she co-produced (A Little Princess from 1995) failed at the Box-Office.