Reynard the Fox feature film "Le Roman de Renard" (The Tale of the Fox) featured the Reynard character as the protagonist. The documentary film "" (1962) parallels Hitler's rise to power with the Reynard fable. Initially, Walt Disney Animation Studios considered a movie about Reynard. However, due to Walt Disney's concern that Reynard was an unsuitable choice for a hero, the studio decided to make Reynard the antagonist of a single narrative feature film named "Chanticleer and Reynard" (based on Edmond Rostand's "Chanticleer") but the production was scrapped in the mid-1960s, in favor of "The Sword in the Stone" (1963). Ken Anderson used
Reynard the Fox in reference to this). Jonson's play "Volpone" is heavily indebted to Reynard. "Reinecke Fuchs" by Goethe is a poem in hexameters, in twelve parts, written 1793 and first published 1794. Goethe adapted the Reynard material from the edition by Johann Christoph Gottsched (1752), based on the 1498 "Reynke de vos". In Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Twilight of the Idols", Nietzsche uses Reynard the Fox as an example of a dialectician. German artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg made a series of 30 drawings which he also etched and published in 1825. "Renert" [full original title: "Renert oder de Fuuß am Frack an a