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The Sweatbox
2002 · Film · documentary · 95 min
Directed by John-Paul Davidson, Trudie Styler
Trudie Styler, a documentarian, had been allowed to film the production of 'Kingdom of the Sun'/'The Emperor's New Groove' as part of the deal that originally brought her husband Sting to the project. As a result, Styler recorded much of the struggle, controversy, and troubles that went into making the picture on film (including when producer Fullmer called Sting to inform the pop star that his songs were being deleted from the film). Styler's completed documentary, The Sweatbox, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on September 13, 2002. Disney owns the rights to the documentary and has not released it on home video or DVD.
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On a similar note, I highly recommend the documentary "The Sweatbox", which is a behind-the-scenes look at the process behind the creation of "The Emperor's New Groove". It was originally meant to be a very different, more serious film, but despite all the effort into creating the storyboards, characters, music etc the producers rejected it and they had to change direction. The documentary was never supposed to be released, but it eventually was leaked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sweatbox
https://archive.org/details/SweatboxDocumentaryUneditedVersion
I watched The Sweatbox: A documentary posted on youtube re-telling the story of the making of the movie by Sting and the animators. It is a sad story. I loved when Sting reacted to Disney's decision of canning all his songs and come up with 1 song (obviously so Disney can put his name on the credits) instead of sending them their way he said: "I am a craftsman" I gather he meant that he will give them their song because they ask him for one. Great intro song he gave them.