


The story was changed to make it more suitable for a family film instead of a story about the life and death of a fox and it became a parable about how society determines our roles, despite our better impulses.Īt the time of its release, the film was the most expensive animated film produced to date, costing $12 million. While being raised by humans, he has not been childhood friends with Copper and none of the animals talk. The novel is mainly about Tod's life in the woods. Daniel Mannix's original novel has a more realistic story which has dealt with the quest of a hunter and his dog, Copper to shoot Tod after he has killed the hunter's new dog, Chief. The film has been directed by Ted Berman and Richard Rich who later founded Crest Animation Productions to create his first independent animated feature The Swan Princess under the working title Tod and Copper. They play together all summer long, but as they reach adulthood, they become enemies because real hounds hunt foxes for food. Tod and Copper meet when young and become friends.

A red fox named Tod and a hound dog named Copper who struggle to preserve their friendship, despite their emerging instincts and the surrounding social pressures demanding them to be adversaries. It tells the story of two unlikely friends. Mannix novel of the same name produced by Walt Disney Productions and released in the United States on Jand it's the 24th film in the Disney Animated Canon. Source The Fox and the Hound is an American animated feature film loosely based on the Daniel P. The Fox and the Hound 2 External links IMDb page
