14 DAY TRIAL // In the late '90s, as Disney had started work on a new film, called “Kingdom of the Sun,” it allowed John-Paul Davidson and Trudie Styler to shoot the documentary “The Sweatbox.”
You can now see it in full above – but you might want to hurry up, because it won't be here for long.
After Disney greenlighted “Kingdom of the Sun,” it killed the project and eventually transformed it into “The Emperor's New Groove.”
The above film documents the death of the project but, in the process, presents Disney executives Schumacher and Schneider in a very negative light (as “nerdy bullies who really didn't seem to know what was going on when it came to animation and were unnecessarily hurtful and full of politically correct speech”).
This explains why Disney never wanted “The Sweatbox” to come out and why it's still trying hard to keep it under wraps: fans should never see or know of its failures.