Disney's First Black Princess - Maddy "The Frog Princess"
I remember getting a Petition emailed to me last year demanding that Disney create a Black Princess. Well, apparently, they got enough signatures. Now, fifteen years after introducing it's first non-white Heroine (1992 - Aladdin's Middle Eastern Princess Jasmine), Disney has announced the creation of it's first Black Princess - Maddy, in its upcoming film "The Frog Princess" slated to be released in 2009.
The film also is the first hand-drawn film the company has committed to since pledging last month to return to the traditional animation form that made it a worldwide brand.
"The Frog Princess", a musical scored by composer Randy Newman, is "an American fairy tale" starring a girl named Maddy who lives in the French Quarter in New Orleans, said John Lasseter, chief creative director for Disney and Pixar Animation Studios.
Disney did not provide details of the plot, but the company showed shareholders preliminary drawings from the film and had Newman and a local jazz band play a song from the film's score.
Comments
I'm still happy about the traditional animation thing. That was just kind of the final blow for me with the company, but Roy Disney really has managed to save a lot of things.
Roxanne - I Agree! Let's put the money where the mouth is....
Tony - Just for you Man :-)
AM - You best be gettin' royalties Girl!!
Ed - You make too much sense. Globalize Activism indeed!
Michelle - I actually got the petition from one of my white friends...isn't that ironic?
CW - Yours and a lot of little one's I hope :-)
Ruiner - Interesting you say that because a lot of my friends have a problem with the name Maddy...likening it to a slave name Addy...as opposed to something more regal/majestic, like Beauty or Jasmine. And I have a feeling that won't be the last I hear on that point.