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Redux Red Riding Hood

Directed by Steve Moore

Screenplay by Dan O’Shannon

1997 – USA

A corporation as vast and impressive as the Walt Disney Company would, you’d think, have a massive amount of interest in releasing its many creations. People love Disney for various reasons, and are typically happy to part with a few bucks to own part of what made up their childhood or what’s defining their children’s lives. And yet, there are many forgotten or lost bits and pieces of Disney history that the Internet is enabling all of us to find in either the most random of places or at the most random of times. A few months ago, for example, a never-officially-released and somewhat controversial behind-the-scenes documentary of The Emperor’s New Groove, from the perspective of the musician Sting (who worked on the film), made its way to YouTube for a few hours.

    In 1995 director Steve Moore was approached by the folks at Disney TV Animation to make a "Fractured Fairy Tales type of short" and they were willing to give him stylistic free rein. Redux Riding Hood secured a great script from star sitcom writer Dan O'Shannon about a wolf (voiced by Seinfeld's Michael Richards) who five years after the Little Red Riding Hood incident, laments his biggest failure in life: letting the rouge-cloaked girl get away. He becomes obsessed with the mishap, and it starts to ruin his marriage (to a sheep voiced by Mia Farrow). Eventually he builds a time machine to travel back to the fateful moment at granny's house.   The short was nominated for an Academy Award in 1997, and it's easy to see why. Lacey...

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