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
The Taill of Schir Chanticleir and the Foxe might also be argued that Henryson was acquainted with the earlier extended telling of the story in the Reynard cycle. Chanticleir, for example, has three wives, as in the earlier French romance, where Chaucer gives seven to his Chauntecleer. Henryson's version was probably composed sometime around the 1480s. Schir Lowrence, a fox "full sair hungrie," creeps one morning early into the farmyard which neighbours the "thornie schaw of grit defence" which is "his residence." He stalks Chanticleir, a cockerel owned by a poor wedow highly dependant on her small flock of hens. Pretending he has come to serve Chanticleir, Lowrence