It was shortly after the promotional campaign for Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame had concluded. Directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale and writer Tab Murphy had been summoned by producer Don Hahn to a crummy Mexican restaurant in downtown Burbank that is, mercifully, no longer there. “Don made it clear to me and Gary that if we wanted to work on another project and work with the same team, we had to come up with a project right away,” Wise remembered. Trousdale echoed the sentiment: “It was Don Hahn who pulled us together and said, ‘You’ve done …

Last week, we brought you exclusive details about a planned sequel to Disney’s underrated animated adventure Atlantis: The Lost Empire from director Kirk Wise. And, yes, we should pause to note that there was a direct-to-video follow-up to Atlantis entitled Atlantis: Milo’s Return, but that it wasn’t designed as a sequel but was rather the first three episodes of a canceled television project that were awkwardly stitched together and were created without the involvement of the movie’s team. Wise revealed that the sequel, which was very much in development, would have climaxed with …

Atlantis: The Lost Empire is one of Disney's most underrated animation films. Not only is movie excellent, it should be considered a sci-fi classic.