“[latest words before his taken away by policeman] [Big Daddy La Bouff: (furiously) Boys, dragged this maggot down to the perish prison.] I'm completely innocent! The Shadow Man bamboozled me!”

The Princess and the Frog

“A few years ago, Pixar had explored a version of The Frog Prince set in gangland Chicago. John Lasseter wanted to switch the locale to New Orleans, a city he loves, but the project was eventually shel...”

The Princess and the Frog

“Mama Odie was based on Ava Kay Jones, an ordained Voodoo Priestess who we met with in New Orleans. She told us that even though magic is part of the Voodoo religion, when people come to someone like h...”

The Princess and the Frog

“In earlier versions of our story, Mama Odie gave our heroine some gris-gris, herbal charms that got "energized" in the climax. We wound up rewriting that as our gris-gris felt like a bit of a deus ex ...”

The Princess and the Frog

“Anika Noni Rose — Tiana”

The Princess and the Frog