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 a highly sophisticated development of Reynardian material as part of his "Morall Fabillis" in the sections known as "The Talking of the Tod". Hans van Ghetelen, a printer of Incunabula in Lübeck printed an early German version called "Reinke de Vos" in 1498. It was translated to Latin and other languages, which made the tale popular across Europe. Reynard is also referenced in the Middle English poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" during the third hunt. Tybalt in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is named after the cat in Reynard the Fox (and is called 'Prince of Cats' by Mercutio