* Bill Willingham's Eisner Award-winning comic book series Fables, published by Vertigo Comics, features the Jungle Book's Mowgli, Bagheera and Shere Khan ; though their characterisation remains true to Kipling's stories, Willingham and artist Mark Buckingham also make oblique references to the 1967 Disney animation in dialogue and artwork.

Almost four years later, broke and in danger of having his house repossessed, he wrote and directed an adaptation of Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huck Finn for Walt Disney Pictures, as well as Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

As the Disney movie is " inspired by " rather than " based on " the Kipling stories, the character King Louie does not appear in Rudyard Kipling's original book, as orangutans are not native to India.

A slightly different version of the character appeared in the Disney 1994 live-action movie Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book starring Jason Scott Lee.

Baloo, based on Kipling's creation, has appeared in various Disney productions, starting with that company's feature-length version of The Jungle Book.

In the Disney film, the character of Hathi, like the other characters in Kipling's Mowgli stories, is greatly transformed and becomes a comic character.

Ambergris is key to the Ian Cameron novel The Lost Ones, from which came the 1974 Disney film, The Island at the Top of the World.

T. H. White's novel was adapted into the Lerner-Loewe stage musical Camelot ( 1960 ) and the Disney animated film The Sword in the Stone ( 1963 ); Camelot, with its focus on the love of Lancelot and Guinevere and the cuckolding of Arthur, was itself made into a film of the same name in 1967.

One of the best known of the film Merlins is the Merlin of the 1963 animated Disney film The Sword in the Stone, based on T. H. White's novel of the same name.

Walt Disney later modernized the novel with Lt. Robin Crusoe, U. S. N., featuring Dick Van Dyke.

The novel of When Knighthood Was in Flower, by Edwin Caskoden ( the pen name of Charles Major ) was published in 1898, and was the source material for both the Davies and the Disney films.

There are various examples of remakes which are most associated with the reimagine or renovate terms, and these include Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, Nora Ephron's Bewitched, Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Samuel Bayer's A Nightmare on Elm Street, Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, David Eick's Bionic Woman, Nelson McCormick's Prom Night, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, and Kenneth Johnson V. Tim Burton has denied that his 2010 film Alice in Wonderland is a renovation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel ; however, the plot line of the film bears very little resemblance to the original or derivatives of it, such as the classic 1951 animated film from Walt Disney.

Laurie ’ s later film appearances include Sense and Sensibility ( 1995 ), adapted by and starring Emma Thompson ; the Disney live-action film 101 Dalmatians ( 1996 ), where he played Jasper, one of the bumbling criminals hired to kidnap the puppies ; Elton ’ s adaptation of his novel Inconceivable, Maybe Baby ( 2000 ); Girl From Rio ; the 2004 remake of The Flight of the Phoenix ; and the three Stuart Little films.

She also penned a novel, Grace ’ s Turn, for Disney literary subsidiary Hyperion, which received accolades by the New York Public Library ( NYPL ) as the 2007 Teenage Book of the Year.

One Hundred and One Dalmatians, often abbreviated as 101 Dalmatians, is a 1961 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith.

Disney adapted the novel into an animated film, released to theatres on January 25, 1961 as One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

Originally an unnamed, minor character in Collodi's novel, he was transformed in the Disney version into a comical and wise partner who accompanies Pinocchio on his adventures, having been appointed by the Blue Fairy to serve as the official conscience for Pinocchio.

A James Patterson novel in the Alex Cross series is named " The Big Bad Wolf ", though it only minimally references the Disney character.

Fairies cannot fly in the rain but can enable others to fly by sprinkling them with fairy dust ( sometimes called " pixie dust " by Disney, and presented as " starstuff " in Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's novel series ).

A German musical stage show, " Der Glöckner von Notre Dame " ( 1999 ) derived from the Disney movie, restores some of the many of the darker elements of the story lost in the film ; Esmeralda dies at the end, Frollo is revealed to have once been a priest in his past ( akin to the novel, where he was an archdeacon ) and Frollo dies because Quasimodo throws him from the roof, rather than falling by accident.

In Hiaasen's subsequent novel Native Tongue, the fictional " Amazing Kingdom " theme park carries heavy influence with South Florida politicians, largely because they blame Disney World for siphoning tourists ' custom from South Florida to Orlando.

In 1975, Walt Disney Productions released a film based on the novel, also called Escape to Witch Mountain.

This novel has no relation to either Walt Disney or the fictional creation of Mickey Mouse.

The patriotic spirit of the Sons of Liberty has been immortalized in modern times by Walt Disney Pictures through their film adaptation of Esther Forbes's novel Johnny Tremain.

The novel Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen by Serena Valentino, published by Disney Press, shows how the Queen became the villain in the film, much in the style of Wicked, with the Magic Mirror, here possessed by the spirit of her abusive father, having been a corrupting influence.

Tom and Huck is a 1995 Disney film starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro, Michael McShane, and Amy Wright ; it is based on Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

In 1975, Walt Disney Productions released a film based on the novel, Escape to Witch Mountain.

With the success of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men ( 1952 ), Disney wanted to keep the production team to make a second film ; he chose The Sword and the Rose inspired by the novel When Knighthood Was in Flower ( 1898 ) by Charles Major.

Nightjohn was adapted from a Gary Paulsen novel, and went on to premiere on the Disney Channel in 1996 to high praise.

The novel inspired the William Buchanan novel Christopher Syn, upon which the Disney film The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh is based, hence the similarities between the plots.

The sound can be heard, for example, when Spike Jones sings " Der Fuehrer's Face " ( from the 1942 Disney animated film of the same name ), repeatedly lambasting Adolf Hitler with: " We'll Heil!

Other movies have also used the term Bronx for comic effect, such as " Bronx ", the character on the Disney animated series Gargoyles.

* Boomer, a woodpecker in the 1981 animated Disney film The Fox and the Hound

** Cars ( film ), a 2006 computer animated film from Disney and Pixar

* In 1946, Walt Disney included a Casey at the Bat segment in the animated feature Make Mine Music.

Pictures of Casey and the pitcher from the Disney animated adaptation are hanging on the walls, and a life-size statue of a baseball player identified as " Casey " stands just outside the restaurant.

He also provided the voice of Jack Skellington, the main character in Tim Burton's animated Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ), and has since reprised the role in many other subsequent productions, including the Disney / Square video games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II and the Capcom sequel to the original film, Oogie's Revenge.

He started at Disney Studios in 1935, more than a year after the debut of Donald Duck on June 9, 1934 in the short animated film The Wise Little Hen.

In the Disney animated film Fantasia, during the Pastoral Symphony, some of the main characters are female centaurs.

* 1901 – Walt Disney, American animated film producer ( d. 1966 )

After making some stories for the Dutch publisher Oberon, the publishers of an American Disney children's magazine called DuckTales ( based on of the animated series of the same name ) offered him employment.

Walt Disney, who had previously been in the short cartoon business, stepped into feature films with the first English-speaking animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ; released by RKO Pictures in 1937.

These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).

Disney continued making animated films, notably ; Cinderella ( 1950 ), Peter Pan ( 1953 ), Lady and the Tramp ( 1955 ), and Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ).

Many successful Hollywood films have been based on British people, stories or events, including Titanic, The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films.

British influence can also be seen with the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films, which include Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The Rescuers and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

* 1940 – The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck are a trio of fictional, anthropomorphic ducks who appear in animated cartoons and comic books published by the Walt Disney Company.

Grammer supplied the voices for " Stinky Pete the Prospector " in 1999 Disney / Pixar film Toy Story 2, Vladimir in the Fox animated movie Anastasia, Rothbart in Barbie of Swan Lake, Zozi the Bear in the subsequently produced prequel Bartok the Magnificent, and the title character in the short-lived animated series Gary the Rat.

In 1933, Pickford underwent a Technicolor screen test for an animated / live action film version of Alice in Wonderland, but Walt Disney discarded the project when Paramount released its own version of the book.

Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz had previous musical theatre experience and wrote songs for animated films during this time, supplanting Disney workhorses the Sherman Brothers.

Other successful animated musicals included Aladdin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Pocahontas from Disney proper, The Nightmare Before Christmas from Disney division Touchstone Pictures, The Prince of Egypt from DreamWorks, Anastasia from Fox and Don Bluth, and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut from Paramount.