Gigantic (Disney film)
Gigantic
Disney publicly scheduled a musical Jack and the Beanstalk adventure, then closed the storybook before animation could reach the screen.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Never Born
- Peak stage
- detailed preproduction
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A cancelled Walt Disney Animation Studios feature inspired by Jack and the Beanstalk.
The film followed Jack befriending an eleven-year-old giant girl in a world above the clouds, with songs by Frozen writers Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
Existence timeline
Disney artists explore a feature based on the giant tale.
Disney presents Gigantic and its central characters to the public.
The Lopez songwriting team begins work as story development continues.
The studio repeatedly adjusts the planned theatrical slot.
Disney ends active development before full production.
Why it ended
After repeated story development and release-date changes, Disney said the project could not reach a workable creative form and shelved it in 2017.
Last confirmed trace
D23 presentation material, concept art, interviews and development accounts preserve the unrealised musical.
What it left behind
Its cancellation interrupted Disney Animation's publicly announced slate and left a modern fairy-tale feature visible mainly through development art.
How we classified it
The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.
The strongest verified milestone maps to detailed_preproduction under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.