1 hour ago, Mr.X said:

well she says she was in rehearsals for it, and these things take a long time to make, so for all we know, it could have been in rehearsals early 1999 or something like that, or late 1998 and then it was cancelled before it went into production/filming...

I think it would be too much to have two different TV Film projects with Emma and Julie Andrews being cancelled back to back... The Sleeping Beauty thing was the only project we know about...

Plus when Emma says 'rehearsals', for all we know it could have just been early table readings - the very first thing you do when it comes to these projects, to get a bond going before proper rehearsals kick off... maybe Emma really thought this would take off...

Well, what's got me confused is, Sleeping Beauty got cancelled in August 1999. Emma's claim is a project was cancelled due to Julie Andrews' vocal issues. Julie's tragic vocal surgery was in 1997. That's the reason I was thinking this could possibly be a different project. Also. If Julie Andrews was supposed to be in Sleeping Beauty, I didn't know about that. Some of the casting was out there. I know Cybill Shepherd was supposed to do it. I guess Julie might not have been officially announced? Maybe it took two years to 1999 before it was clear Julie wasn't going to vocally recover?

I don't doubt Phil Collins called Emma about collaborating on the soundtrack...but I do wonder a bit about voicing Jane. Tarzan was old-school, hand drawn animation, and they were working on it in 1995. I know the animators used Minnie Driver's actual facial expressions in the animation, so you'd think she'd be on board as Jane pretty early on. But. Who knows.

It probably doesn't help that Emma doesn't have the best memory...

I don’t believe she was approached to voice Jane as Phil wasn’t a director so why would he have anything to do with that? I can believe Phil approached her about singing / co-writing though, what a missed opportunity.

Interesting two spice related projects with Disney that fell through.

I wonder if the girls had stuck at the band for longer their solo careers would have been bigger on a worldwide scale?

Edited May 23May 23 by Spiceboy

8 hours ago, Piers said:

Well, what's got me confused is, Sleeping Beauty got cancelled in August 1999. Emma's claim is a project was cancelled due to Julie Andrews' vocal issues. Julie's tragic vocal surgery was in 1997. That's the reason I was thinking this could possibly be a different project. Also. If Julie Andrews was supposed to be in Sleeping Beauty, I didn't know about that. Some of the casting was out there. I know Cybill Shepherd was supposed to do it. I guess Julie might not have been officially announced? Maybe it took two years to 1999 before it was clear Julie wasn't going to vocally recover?

I don't doubt Phil Collins called Emma about collaborating on the soundtrack...but I do wonder a bit about voicing Jane. Tarzan was old-school, hand drawn animation, and they were working on it in 1995. I know the animators used Minnie Driver's actual facial expressions in the animation, so you'd think she'd be on board as Jane pretty early on. But. Who knows.

It probably doesn't help that Emma doesn't have the best memory...

Yeah she is probably misremembering things in terms of timming and maybe even as to when/how Julie might have been involved at all.

She should have definitely accept the Phill Collins gig though and work around it??? What a missed opportinity....

1 hour ago, Spiceboy said:

I don’t believe she was approached to voice Jane as Phil wasn’t a director so why would he have anything to do with that? I can believe Phil approached her about singing / co-writing though, what a missed opportunity.

Interesting two spice related projects with Disney that fell through.

I wonder if the girls had stuck at the band for longer their solo careers would have been bigger on a worldwide scale?

Oh for sure! They went on their solo adventures too soon. They should have stuck out for another two albums with the band at least, with another worldwide tour at least, do these other projects like the Disney's Herculies muses (like they were invited to be!!!), collaborate with other artists (like the Girlfriend/Boyfriend gig and other collabs) and THEN go solo.

I will always mantain this! It was too soon for solo albums in 1999. Sure, do a solo song here and then, but to go all out with solo projects that soon was a killer for the group and themselves too.

3 hours ago, Mr.X said:

Oh for sure! They went on their solo adventures too soon. They should have stuck out for another two albums with the band at least, with another worldwide tour at least, do these other projects like the Disney's Herculies muses (like they were invited to be!!!), collaborate with other artists (like the Girlfriend/Boyfriend gig and other collabs) and THEN go solo.

I will always mantain this! It was too soon for solo albums in 1999. Sure, do a solo song here and then, but to go all out with solo projects that soon was a killer for the group and themselves too.

The girls getting offered the muses in Hercules is a claim that's been out there since 1997. The occasional known website reports it. But. Really. That claim makes no sense. Hercules was released in June 1997. It was being worked on for five years. The film was being advertised by the time the Spice Girls broke through in the US. There's just no way Disney was going to overhaul five hand drawn animated characters and create new music for them (cause the Spices would have been a pretty bad fit for the songs and character designs as they existed)

Now, what is true is that songwriter Alan Menken offered them the chance to sing I Won't Say I'm In Love for the soundtrack album. Aladdin and Lion King had songs that managed to break through on the pop charts. I'm sure they hoped they could do the same for Hercules. The song's cute. Is it worthy of the killer single streak the girls were in at that time? I guess I'd have to hear what the girls and their team (prob Matt and Biff) would do with it.

8 hours ago, Piers said:

The girls getting offered the muses in Hercules is a claim that's been out there since 1997. The occasional known website reports it. But. Really. That claim makes no sense. Hercules was released in June 1997. It was being worked on for five years. The film was being advertised by the time the Spice Girls broke through in the US. There's just no way Disney was going to overhaul five hand drawn animated characters and create new music for them (cause the Spices would have been a pretty bad fit for the songs and character designs as they existed)

Now, what is true is that songwriter Alan Menken offered them the chance to sing I Won't Say I'm In Love for the soundtrack album. Aladdin and Lion King had songs that managed to break through on the pop charts. I'm sure they hoped they could do the same for Hercules. The song's cute. Is it worthy of the killer single streak the girls were in at that time? I guess I'd have to hear what the girls and their team (prob Matt and Biff) would do with it.

Maybe they were offered to be part of the soundtrack or just the singing instead of doing the full voiceover of the characters?

I could totally see them doing this actually! Back then they had gusto and would have done a great version.

Edited May 23May 23 by Mr.X

And I can TOTALLY hear Emma on this! She COULD HAVE BEEN AN OSCAR WINNER FFS!!!