12-22-2015, 08:42 PM
Thought I'd share some interesting Disney trivia about Aladdin. Did you know? During the development of Aladdin. John Musker and Ron Clements, wrote most of Genie's dialogue and developed his character based off of the late comedian Robin Williams. When Disney approached Robin to voice the character, he wasn't interested in doing the role. It wasn't until animator Eric Goldberg(who was in charge of animating on the genie) made a few pencil tests with some recordings from Robin's stand up acts to give Robin an idea how the genie character would act if he decided to voice him. Robin saw these pencil tests and after having a good laugh at out of them joined onto the production of Aladdin.
When recording his lines. He ad libbed most of all of the dialogue of the genie's lines(most of which weren't even in the original script) and recorded up to 16 hours of material that didn't go used when he was voicing the genie. Eric goldberg later used some of these unused recordings for deleted scenes in homage for Robin Williams.
When recording his lines. He ad libbed most of all of the dialogue of the genie's lines(most of which weren't even in the original script) and recorded up to 16 hours of material that didn't go used when he was voicing the genie. Eric goldberg later used some of these unused recordings for deleted scenes in homage for Robin Williams.