Disney's Tangled 15th Anniversary
copyright Disney In 1996, while working on Tarzan (1999), lead animator and Disney Legend, Glen Keane, started to develop the idea of an animated adaptation of the classic fairytale of Rapunzel. The story is most well known as written by the Brothers Grimm but it has had many different influences, including an ancient myth of a dawn goddess and the story of S aint Barbara of Nicomedia. These had the basic premise of a young woman who was trapped in a tower. The first written version of the tale was written by Giambattista Basile. Since then, the tale and its characters have become iconic in the world of fairytales. copyright Disney The story has been adapted into many different mediums, for example, it was used as part of the story of the classic musical Into the Woods. Similar to The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, in the 1930s, Walt Disney planned to make a feature animated film based on the story of Rapunzel but found it too difficult to ad...
