Production
The crew had to go to Jamestown, Virginia to study and draw the trees and landscapes. Howard Ashman was going to write songs for this movie as soon as he was finished with Aladdin, but he died during production of Aladdin, thus marking this being the first Disney movie with Alan Menken's music but without songs by Ashman.
The animals were originally supposed to talk and Pocahontas was going to have a third sidekick, a turkey named Redfeather voiced by John Candy, who supplied a lot of voicework. But when Candy died in 1994, they cut his character out and decided to drop the idea of the animals speaking. Richard White, the voice of Gaston in Beauty and the Beast was going to voice Ratcliffe, but the crew was worried he might sound too much like Gaston, so he was replaced by David Ogden Stiers. Rupert Everett, Stephen Fry and Patrick Stewart were other choices to voice Ratcliffe.
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