Disney's Animated Storybook: The Hunchback of Notre Dame "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." meanwhile, at other times voice soundalikes were used. The game follows the plot of the 1996 Disney film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" closely, and features six separate activities that can be played throughout the story, which is narrated by the fictional entertainer Clopin Trouillefou. The game contains the characters featured in Victor Hugo's original novel such as Quasimodo, Esmeralda and Phoebus, as well as characters created specifically for the Disney film such as the gargoyles Hugo, Victor and Laverne. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" was among the top-10-selling children's animated CD-ROM titles for 1997.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film) This revised ending was based in part on Victor Hugo's own libretto to a Hunchback opera, in which he had permitted Captain Phoebus to save Esmerelda from her execution. In late 1993, pop singer Cyndi Lauper was the first actor attached to the film during its initial stages. Thinking she was cast as Esmeralda, Lauper was startled to learn she was to voice a gargoyle named Quinn, and was hired one week after one reading with the directors. The development team would later come up with the names of Chaney, Laughton and Quinn – named after the actors who portrayed