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
Statue of Hans Christian Andersen, Rosenborg Castle Gardens Statue of Hans Christian Andersen, Rosenborg Castle Gardens The Statue of Hans Christian Andersen in Rosenborg Castle Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark, is a bronze statue of famous Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen. Saabye's sculpture depicts Andersen in a sitting position addressing his audience. The sculpture is mounted on a terracotta plinth with bronze reliefs. In December 1874, it was first proposed to create a Hans Christian Andersen monument in Copenhagen to mark the writer's 70 years birthday on 2 April 1875. A committee was set up and it was announced that the monument would be placed in Rosenborg Garden on his