Release Date: Unknown
Notes
February 28, 2002
An Exclusive news fround no where else here at The Disney Animation Archive from an insider
called lil' something
"This should be the next feature to be produced in Florida after My People.
Its traditional animation and sketches have been made and shown to the suits.
No greenlight yet though.
This movie to be based on a story written by a Finnish
writer Anna Swan about selkies.
Original Story
February 28, 2002
An Exclusive news fround no where else here at The Disney Animation Archive from an insider
called lil' something
The following is the story that Disney is woking on to develop the story fro the upcoming
Feature film
Its about the lord of Wastness. He was a very hansom man and all the girls on the Orkney
islands had a crush on him. But he did not like them all, he wanted a special girl. He
felt alone and often walked down the beach. then one day he say a group of selkies play.
They all had shed down their skin. One of the girls was so pretty that he fell in love
and took her skin. Fast as they are the selkies took off when they saw the young man but
one was left behind. She begged the lord to give back her skin. He felt pitty for her but
he was too much in love to give her skin back. She refuses to come out of the water for
days, but slowly falls in love with him too. She decides give him a change. They marry
but on the weddingnight she finds her skin and cant resist putting it back on and goes
back to the ocean where her husband follows her to get her back. She does not want to
go back to the land and swims away. In an attempt to hold her the man falls in sea and
drowns for she is too late to see her husband is drowning. Then she takes him below and
gives him a resting place.
Original Story
Silkies are shape shifting sea fairies usually in the
form of bright-eyed seals. They are localised to
Northern Scotland and the Shetland Islands.
Silkies often came on to land in human form, where
they would dance, especially on the night of the
full moon.
In taking human form the Silkies shed their sealskin,
and hide them in a safe place. There are many tales
from the clans of leaders taking Silkie wives by
stealing their skins. The Silkies are said to make
good wives but always long for the sea, and return
to their seal form if they gain repossession of their skins.
The silkies can be identified in their human form by their
webbed fingers and toes and their ability to swim underwater
for long periods of time.
