Mort (unreleased film)

Mort was a cancelled traditionally animated adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel of the same name that was to have been directed by Ron Clements and John Musker.

Mort is a young man who Death whisks away to train as his apprentice. But on his first solo assignment, Mort prevents the assassination of a princess, threatening the flow of history and the fabric of the Discworld.

The project would end up cancelled as a result of the rights to Discworld being sold as a package and Disney being unwilling to option the entire franchise. Additionally, according to some sources, Disney higher-ups were hesitant about the idea of Death as a major character. When the film was cancelled, Clements and Musker would move onto a new project based around Polynesian mythology, which would become Moana.