The Hunchback of Notre Dame II The Hunchback of Notre Dame II The Hunchback of Notre Dame II is a 2002 American animated romantic musical comedy-drama film and direct-to-video sequel to the 1996 Disney animated film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". It was produced by Walt Disney Animation Japan and Walt Disney Television Animation and completed in 1997. Unlike many Disney film sequels, almost the entire key cast of the first film returned. It has a 30% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film is set six years after the events of the original film and the death of Judge Claude Frollo. Captain Phoebus serves as
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film) to write the screenplay, and it was decided early on that Quasimodo would be the center of the story, as he was in preceding live-action film adaptations. In the early drafts, Quasimodo served as a Cyrano between Phoebus and Esmeralda, but it was discarded to focus more on Quasimodo. Meanwhile, a love story between Quasimodo and Esmeralda was also conceived, according to Murphy, but "we decided to make Phoebus more heroic and central to the story. Out of that decision grew the idea of some sort of a triangle between Quasimodo, Esmeralda and Phoebus." Some of the novel's key characters