Pixar’s delightful Coco is still playing in UK cinemas, as it prepares for its disc and download release in the US later this month. And as part of the promotion for the release, directors Adrian Molina and Lee Unkrich have revealed that they originally envisaged an opening song for the film.
The pair told USA Today that the song was part of the film for “a number of years” during its development, and it sounds as though it was only deleted pretty late in the day.
They’ve now unveiled it as a nearly-completed deleted scene too, and here’s how the movie would originally have opened….
Watch this exclusive spirited opening musical number from #PixarCoco you didn’t see: https://t.co/EKwL7RX8OE pic.twitter.com/Q2weNTWCja
— USA TODAY Life (@usatodaylife) February 6, 2018
Eventually, the decision was made to go with the striking opening to the movie we got. And as we said at the top, you can see that in British cinemas right now…