Frozen (2013 film) billion, and Lasseter was promoted to chief creative officer of both Pixar and Disney Animation. The next attempt started in 2008, when Lasseter was able to convince Chris Buck (who co-directed the 1999 film "Tarzan" for the studio) to return to Walt Disney Animation Studios from Sony Pictures Animation (where he had recently co-directed the Oscar-nominated 2007 film "Surf's Up"); that September, Buck pitched several ideas to Lasseter, one of which was "The Snow Queen". Buck later revealed that his initial inspiration for "The Snow Queen" was not the Andersen fairy tale itself, but that he wanted "to do something
Blockhead Hans Blockhead Hans "Blockhead Hans" (Danish: "Klods-Hans") is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published in Danish in 1855. An early English translation appeared in Andrew Lang's 1894 "The Yellow Fairy Book", although Lang gave no source for the tale. The tale has been variously translated as "Clumsy Hans", "Silly Hans" and "Jack the Dullard". It is number 119 in the Hans Christian Andersen's register of Andersen's literary works. The two educated sons of an old squire wanted to marry the princess, who said that she would marry the man who chose his words best. They