The Making of The Emperor's New Groove was a Sh*t Show

Throwing off someone's groove is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make The Emperor’s New Groove, from throwing away four years of work by director Roger Allers, to the film ending Disney’s Renaissance by becoming their first bomb in over a decade.

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In the entertainment world, there are millions of dollars on the line and troubled productions are bound to happen. And we are going to talk about these disastrous, never ending, and sometimes dangerous productions. From the creators of WTF Happened To This Movie?, It Was A Sh*t Show is a video essay/documentary/podcast series looking at some of your favorite films and tv shows, and why they were such a nightmare to make.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:34 - Michael Eisner & Jeffery Katzenberg Take Over Disney
01:55 - The Rise & Fall of the Disney Renaissance
03:24 - Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff Save The Lion King
04:06 - Roger Aller’s Kingdom of the Sun
05:36 - Sting Joins Production to Write Six Songs
06:32 - Mark Dindal Tries to Help Aller’s Restructure the Film
08:01 - Poor Screening & Eisner’s Delay Refusal
09:21 - The Bake-Off Method: Allers vs Dindal
10:20 - Allers Failed Pitch, Dindal Made Lead Director
11:54 - Eisner Delays Dindal’s New Version
13:19 - David Reynolds & the Anything Goes Attitude
14:16 - More Chuck Jones Than Walt Disney
15:18 - Progress At Last!
16:06 - Sting’s Final Contributions to the Film
17:20 - Emperor’s New Groove Releases December 15, 2000
18:42 - Emperor’s New Groove: Ahead of Its Time

Sources:
Box Office Mojo: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2572256769/
DisneyWar: https://www.google.com/books/edition/DisneyWar/qF5GigayEhQC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Entertainment Weekly: https://web.archive.org/web/20140904092026/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,302837,00.html
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/feb/14/artsfeatures
Fumettologica: https://www.fumettologica.it/2014/12/intervista-roger-allers-re-leone/2/
LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-13-ca-64717-story.html
Laughing Place: https://www.laughingplace.com/w/leg/?legacyasppage=News-ID115140.asp
The Men Who Would Be King: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Men_Who_Would_Be_King/Q_4hlDLco0AC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/emperors_new_groove
Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/an-oral-history-of-disney-the-emperors-new-groove.html

Featured Footage:
102 Dalmatians (2000)
Aladdin (1992)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
The Black Cauldron (1985)
Cats Don’t Dance (1997)
Dinosaur (2000)
Dumbo (1941)
The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) and special features
Fantasia 2000 (2000)
Family Guy (1999 - )
Hercules (1997)
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
The Jungle Book (1967)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993–2009)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
The Lion King (1994)
Looney Tunes
Mulan (1998)
The Pixar Story (2007)
Pocahontas (1995)
The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
The Road to El Dorado (2000)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
The Sweatbox (2002)
Tangled (2010)
Tarzan (1999)
Toy Story (1995)
Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)

CBS News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joU3LEMUpIY
The Lonely Island - Jack Sparrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY
Walt Disney World - Carousel of Progress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs7G_uyIK6o&t=9s

Music:
John Debney - The Emperor’s New Groove (Original Soundtrack)
Ryan Hudson - Sh*t Show Theme
Tom Jones - Perfect World

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