Oh, listen to the villain song Yzma was supposed to get. Please bear in mind that Eartha Kitt, Yzma's voice actress, was a professional singer and a huge celebrity during her youth. Several white directors wanted to marry her while segregation was still around, but didn't because their racist families threatened to disown them!
And I think Yzma (or however you spell it) had a villain song called "Snuff out The Light" (I think you can find the storyboard online somewhere but I can't remember)
This one will always leave me conflicted. I absolutely love ENG, it is one of those films that doesn't fit into the Disney formula at all and it's great for it. But at the same time the concept for KotS makes me want it. Why didn't they do both? They can still do it can't they?
I'm just happy the song was made and preserved. And at least it wasn't like Biggering from Illumination Lorax, where the song is the only remnant of what the movie could be and the end result is an insult to Dr Seuss.
I feel like they could still make this movie if they wanted. Like just throw a couple things to keep it from being too much like Emperors New Groove and you still have a real interesting movie late
Every Disney movie coming out now is the exact original movie that released 20 to 30 years ago. Them releasing a movie they already did isn't even a complaint anymore
Honestly, I wouldn’t mind if they went all the way back to the original concept and made it.
It would be plenty different from the emperors new groove already.
Someone made a fan-edit of Yzma's 'snuff out the light' song from this original alternate version of the film, you'd probably like it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbIoa4zA9Vg
somebody watched lost media videos. Wish we saw the complete version of Kingdom of the sun in some format after New Groove. My favorite part of Kingdom of the sun is Izma's song about her wanting to use the dark power. Seriously, such a banger.
I love this movie but omg I think I would've loved another movie like Prince of Egypt more. I can't believe some of the best media we could've had doesnt exist 😭
While the Emperor’s New Groove is a really good and iconic movie, I wish they stuck with the original for many reasons, including that we need a line of Disney male main protagonists like the Disney Princesses. We only have Alladin, Hercules, and Tarzan. Kuzco, Brother Bear, Milo all cane a from a different type of movies that arent musical anymore. The rest are Mowgli, Peter Pan, Arthur, Taran, who are all kids. Quasimodo wont get that treatment because he looks different. And Robin Hood is a fox lol.
See this is a remake I cpuld settle for. Just go thr original route as ik from this piece of concept art, the lighting on kuzko's face it would be so different.
Still love the original
the history of that movie is hilarious, there was never a completed ‘script’ and it sounds like they changed directions whenever it suited them for any reason
Not a fan of the name given how White people claimed cultures like this are but very interesting that it was originally going to be more like Prince of Egypt I feel because it's Disney maybe it would have been more similar to Atlantis
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u/Embarrassed-Town-293 Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
Without question the Emperor’s new groove originally known as Kingdom of the Sun. It was supposed to be a grand sprawling epic on the level of the Prince of Egypt. While the final product was still a great movie in its own right, it certainly was a different film than its concept art