Sweet F.A.
@Tarkan809
It’s okay. Hell, I didn’t know about its long production history until 2012 or so, when I saw Nostalgia Critic’s review of it.
Basically, the late Richard Williams started production on the film in 1964, but in the ‘90s, it was bought by a completion bond company which kicked Williams off the project and gave all the rights to Miramax, which slapped together their own half-assed cut of the film that ripped off many elements from
Aladdin (which, as I said earlier, had itself copied many elements from
TTATC). It added dialogue, musical numbers, pop cultural references, and voice actors like Matthew Broderick who weren’t even born when the movie started production. This would be released as
The Princess and the Cobbler in some regions and
Arabian Knight in others.
Thankfully, a filmmaker named Garrett Gilchrist (who incidentally is also a major brony) has made a recut of the film titled
The Recobbled Cut which was meant to preserve the film in how it was originally meant to be seen. And let me tell you, it is far better than the Miramax version. It tonally consistent, for one thing: it’s a weird, surreal avant-garde film, as opposed to the theatrical release, which was trying too hard to appeal to the mainstream Disney crowd.