Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24589671-20140512051816/@comment-5574752-20140518192607

Merian101 wrote: Actually to those who still do not know, the season was filmed and finished way before Frozen was conceived. ABC network created Elsa first, but Disney (same company, just the movie branch) loved it so much they decided to make a movie out of it first; ABC has kept it under wraps by only letting select few read the scripts prior to filming; and all of this was made even more exclusive since they decided not to choose an actress at all for the role and used a stand in, to prevent leaks. so, its Disney that copied abc.

Actally, since you don't seem to know, Frozen was in conception long before Adam and Eddie decided to use it. Infact they have said, several times, that they wanted to use Elsa after they saw Frozen. An adaptation of the Snow Queen has been looked at by Walt Disney Animation studios several times over the last couple of decades. They firsted tried to create an adaptation back in the 1940's (before Adam and Eddie were even born BWT). That didn't go beyond the storyboard because the Snow Queen herself proved to be a difficult character to develop (and she still is). Then in the 1990's they tried to again to adapt the Snow Queen, but it was scrapped in 2002 (note, this is still before Once existed). It wasn't until 2010 (a year before Once aired on television) that the Snow Queen story as we now know as 'Frozen' really got a creative team behind it that was able to move it towards full production.

Merian101 I don't know where you are getting your information from, but it you knew anything about the length of time that goes into the making of an animated movie then you won't have made the comment you did. it takes years to make an animated movie, while a single season of a live action television show takes a couple months. It wasn't Disney taking an idea from ABC, but the other way around. Adam and Eddie had to make a pitch to the executives at Disney to get the rights to use Elsa.

While you were partly right about them keeping the script under wraps, most of the cast of Once didn't know about Elsa until after the scene was filmed that was because they didn't want set leaks to the public for the last few months (because the last couple of episodes of the season were filmed at the start of the year, after Frozen was released).