Words cannot describe how much I desperately want to see this completely animated. By god, it would be awesome.

For those who are asking, they cut the song because the context is no longer relevant to the plot. The lyrics says that Yzma is obsessed with looking young and is taking it out on the sun. Her plan was to block the sun to regain her looks. But since the film changed hands so much, the plot changed dramatically and Yzma's motive changed from looks-obsessive to power-obsessive.

While I really liked the final movie, I am actually a bit bummed that we never got to see this version. Though it is basically impossible now to do the story without Eartha Kitt, wouldn't it be great if the animation for this song was fully finished as just a music video? It is just so darn catchy and I would love to see those pencil works all finished.

They should at least have the whole song on the special features of the New Groove dvd.

The things we could have had... This is some "Friends on the other side stuff" but 10 times more fun!. The visuals are so amazing that they beg to be finished...*sigh* but that won't happen will it all we will have is this song. It's such a shame that the animators were never given a chance to finish this, they must have worked extremely hard and treated it like every part of the film and Emperor's New Groove.

AHHHHH the animations when she says "Every wrinkle soon be gone..." and "Murder, Treachery, and lying..." ahh I would kill for those parts to be fully fleshed out because it looks sOOOOO GOOD

I wonder if the Kingdom of the Sun version of Yzma is where Disney got the idea for Mother Gothel from Disney's Tangled.

This movie exists. There are chunks still stuck in storyboard. There are chunks fully animated. And there are bits fully colored. This is something Disney should finish, to test the waters on bringing traditional animation back every few years.

I would've watched the fuck out of King of the Sun, but Emperor's New Groove was still amazing so at least we got that.

I love the "Emperor's New Groove", it's one of my childhood films. But i'm sure that "Kingdom of the sun" could be a incredible film.

I wish Disney would just, release the full pencil tests for this song combined with whatever was finished for it. I've been dying to see the full music video for this song, no matter how unfinished it is. The animators did, from what we can see, such good work for this song's animation. Call it wishful thinking, but maybe, just maybe, they'll release it on Disney+ or something.

I love The Emperor's New Groove as we have it now, but I think I would have really enjoyed Kingdom of the Sun.

They have GOT to reanimate this thing!

This Could of been a Prequel to the Emperors new Grove. Where Kuzco Parents tell him the story about how his father Ruled the Kingdom once.

Dude.... I love the design for Yzma... Like DUUUUUUUUDE!

The rhythm of the male chorus before the end of the song has this really unique rhythm that I miss in the complete version we got.

Damn... now I kinda wish The Emperor's New Groove would have continued as Kingdom of the Sun

Wow! Just wow! Yzma had a song, the look, the powers, and the potential to be one of the Disney villains, alongside Scar, Dr. Facilier, and then some. And the producers apparently had a good time with this song.

This is one of my favorite villain "I want" songs ever, and the fact that Eartha Kitt sang it makes it that much better. Hopefully we'll get a fully animated version of this in a future re-release of "Emperor's New Groove".

I'm mixed on whether or not they should've done this concept since as interesting as it was, I frickin' LOVE the movie we got. However, there's no argument that for a DVD/Blu-ray release they should've finished animating this sequence at least. If we can get "Morning report" seamlessly put into the Lion King, I don't see why not

I wish this was what we got instead. Emperor's New Groove is great but this would've been beautiful.

As much as I love The Emperor's New Groove as is, this version of the movie would've probably been better.

For some reason I see kingdom of the sun more like a DreamWorks film when 2D animation for DreamWorks was still alive. You know like prince of Egypt spirit road to El Dorado etc Disney tried to make kingdom of the sun like a DreamWorks film with all the colors and song it feels like that something road to El Dorado would do

Shame this was never finished... even if the original movie was never completed, I would have loved to see this song finished in animation, it could have been the high light of the movie.

Me: At least give us the scene with Snuff Out The Light, Disney!! Disney: It would be too traumatizing for children... Me: Real life and anime will already do that!

This is why I sometimes wish King of the Sun was fully completed.

I still weep at what could have been ;;

Wha a Shame we never got Kingdom of the Sun finished, this song truly captured the essence of Peruvian Salsa (the country where the Incas are from, and also my country of origin). At least Emperor's New Groove was a great movie.

I love that part when she says You really cant blame a girl for trying... HA! it is so Yzma!

If not in the sequel, then surely this song could have been featured in an episode of the TV series. Yzma's plan one day is to snuff out the sun, we don't even need an explanation for the reason she's singing it. It's truly an awful waste of so much talent that the song never saw the light of day, ironically.

...wow...that was exactly what I thought the video for this would be. No seriously, I listened to this song, plotted the video that would go with it in my head, and the parts they showed lined up almost exactly... ...

This song is too good, Eartha's Yzma and her singing in general is just amazing to hear. And the animation looked good in the animatics too. If they ever do a short for Disney movies, this song would be great! Love you Eartha!!

Man, i have a theory that they have a full storyboard and had that song (at least almost) fully roughly animated because when you see this man alone at the room with a tv on his side you can, also see animated parts of the song as it's playing in the documentary Pls I hope someday they release it fully bc this is an awesome son and it really deserves to be appreciated with animation

If there is one thing I would want to see fully finished from the original version of this movie, it is this song. Hell, even a full animatic would be fantastic

Why did they have to cut this?! This would have been one of the best villain songs!

I wish this was the final product even though I loved the actual movie

kingdom of the sun would've been something beautiful if disney hadn't scrapped it and i love the empoerers new groove,but i wish now knowing about kingdom of the sun. i wish i'd seen that instead.

Got done watching the full documentary, and I must say, this definatly deserves a release as a bonus feature on a re-release of the Emperors New Groove just like the almost 2 hour long Lilo and Stitch documentary. Or why not have the entire original draft as a watchable bonus feature that was shown to the chairmen of animation at the time.

Every day that passes since I discovered this, is another day I wish we got this fully animated

I really wish they would animate this. This song is amazing.

The fact that they didn’t put this in the movie is a crime against humanity

The Emperor's New Groove's early work

It would be interesting to see how Kingdom of the Sun would have turned out (NOT TO MENTION YZMAS MUSICAL NUMBER IS SO COOL) but I am glad that we have Emperors new groove (i still say they could do it but ANYWAYS STILL GREAT MOVIES)

Dato curioso. El hombre que está hablando es Andreas Deja. Diseñador de Scar entre otros personajes.

Jumping back into this comment section to say...are we not gonna talk about the way Eartha delivers THIS line: "Supai, baby, _turn me onnnn..."_

Damn i really wish they could of finished kingdom of the sun. The title even sounds cool.

I hope that, someday, THE SWEATBOX (from which this clip is taken) will be released on DVD. It sounds really cool.

So tempted to carefully research character designs, art style, animation style,and tone of this movie (Kindom of The Sun) just to make an animated music video.

Kingdom of the sun would have been such an awesome film. this version of Yzma not only looks more menacing, but like a woman who might've actually been pretty in his younger years...

Man, this movie seems way better than what we ended up with

As much as I love ‘Emperor’s New Groove’ I would love to see ‘Kingdom of the Sun’ as a new Disney movie or ,better yet, a broadway musical

Eartha Kitt is a gift and a treasure to us all

Eartha Kitt is such a queen. I wish they'd at least fully animate this song. It's so iconic.

0:05 Yzma gave that flower a drop of coronavirus

I want Disney to explore this again but Eartha Kitt has already passed away so no one could make her voice again (unless they found a super good understudy like Avatar did to Iroh/Mako/Greg). If they continued on though, I think this is a prequel idea. Imagine Kuzco’s father is the one she has to “snuff out” to get the beauty she wants back. Like the plot revolves around the antagonist who tries all sorts of magic to get beautiful again. She tries to kill the emperor (Kuzco’s Dad) as he is the “sun incarnate” and whom she believes the cause of her uglification. Kuzco’s Dad finds this out and Moseses himself out of the kingdom in search of ways to defeat Yzma. Then Yzma finds out and sends out her first apprentice (before Kronk) who is much scarier and actually more evil than Kronk. Kuzco’s Dad probably gets help from Pacha (though much younger and probably single) under the disguise of a peasant. The two goes to an adventure and eventually Kuzco’s Dad meets his Mom and falls in love. Pacha stays in his village to stall time for Kuzco’s Dad but Yzma alerts her pursuing apprentice of Kuzco’s parents’ location. They meet an old wise lady who foretells their future, albeit vaguely. She says: the sun will leave a ray on earth before it descends to darkness. He doesn’t know what it means but he goes back to the kingdom to face Yzma and hopefully think of a way to reason with her. Yzma times the ritual to kill the Emperor to an eclipse. Kuzco’s mom arrives just in time to put faith back in the Emperor’s heart and decides to fight together against Yzma. Yzma gets caught by the council (or whatever elders shit they have in the kingdom) and sentences her to death. She feigns surrender and when the Emperor is in the clear, her apprentice shoots the emperor with a poisoned arrow. The Emperor succumbs to his wound and tells his lover to keep the baby, which implies Kuzco being conceived at that point. Yzma realizes he is dead and her plan was all wrong. But she pulls this chance to tell everyone that the apprentice put her under a fucking trance and blames him for the actions against the Emperor. The council decides Yzma to stay and imprison the apprentice. With the empty throne, Yzma volunteers to be the Empress but Kuzco’s mom interjects and tells people she is with child. Kuzco is born but Yzma is in the shadows, lurking and waiting for her throne. She eventually kicks out the Empress Dowager before Kuzco even has consciousness. From then on, Kuzco is kept under Yzma’s wing and given the sob story that his parents died of an accident. The end. Again, I have not watched the TV series accompanying Emperor’s New Groove.

My god this animation is FIRE

It is a SIN that this song was cut, and barely got a proper release. The team seemed really excited about it, and when the plot was changed they didn't even write a new song for Eartha. This could have gone down in the books as one of Disney's best villain songs! Disney, when Eartha Kitt records a song for you, YOU FUCKING USE IT.

It's such a shame that we never got this in the movie but I still liked the direction they went with.

I would have loved to see this version.. But I am still really glad the one we have was created..

I remember being a teen and my mom randomly buying this DVD for my little siblings. We all ended up watching it together and simply had a riot. It's one of my favorite memories. Didn't expect a protagonist like Kuzco nor a villain like Yzma. Kronk was also a standout and I can still hear Wendy Malick's voice. Eartha Kitt and the entire cast outdid themselves with their performances here.

I wish they made this version. The Disney films of the renaissance where a escape from my childhood.

I can tell the cast and crew had a lot of fun making this song and sequence.

ARE YOU REAAAADY???? FRIENDS ON THE OTHERS SIIIIDE! That's what I was thinking when I saw the animation. lol

The part near the end, at 1:47 , I personally like it better without all the backup vocals, because you get to hear her, while in the studio version that's also in the soundtrack, the backup vocals pretty much overshadow her

We don't talk about Yzma BUT It was her villain song, it was amazing and there wasn't an option to not use it!

Fuck, Eartha must've been an AMAZING person to work with, even at her age at the time. They're won't be no Eartha's around here anymore.

I want this to be made in a future rerelease of ENG, just the entire music video done up with the found recording.

I told myself this years ago when i first saw this, so i’ll type it now for records sake. IF i ever learn how to do animation and get good at it, i will animate this whole song. That is a promise

I kinda hope Disney releases the full animatic with the song together Would be nice

I love this song and I would love to see this movie to be fully animated and Kingdom of the Sun sounds like a great film and I love the title it sounds cool.

I would love it if they made the actual kingdom of the sun movie and see how different it was to emperor's new groove.

Rest in peace, Eartha Kitt Such an incredible performance, as to be expected of her

if they're going to make a gritty remake of emperors new groove. they should really have this song in it. cause oh my god, this is a gem.

Imagine siw malmkvist( the swedish voice of yzma ) singing this. WOUNDERFFUl.

0:57 “this is all your fault Jafar” he couldn’t let yzma have a better Disney villain song than Twisted

Ive always been at a complex middle of the road type situation, I love the emperors new groove but I also really wanted to see kingdom of the sun, but obviosly you cant have both.

Man, as much as I love Emperor's New Groove, I really wish this could have existed, too.

I wonder if they could finish this scene, and release it for people to see?

It’s a crime that the song isn’t fully animated

Dang, this almost makes me wish The Emperor's New Groove never happened. ALMOST.

I’ve done an animation of this but an official Disney animation is something I want more than Yzma wants her looks back. And this is just so damn catchy I need an official version of this!! Someone please start a petition😅

1:30 That head turn she does, I think they actually put that in the final movie, didn't they?

This would have been the best part of this movie

Such a shame it was cut out because they went in a diffrend direction. But this song just explains so much about why Izmas charakter is they way she is

I love emperor's new groove, but GOD the movie we could have had just for this version of eyzma!! Eartha kitts incredible acting would have just blown us away, especially with the singing!! I think kingdom of the sun was changed because the primary plot wasn't turning out, but GOD this would have been the highlight!! I demand a collection of what work they had done to be released as a collectors item. People would pay, Disney!!! Come on!! Please!! 😭 Who do I have to write!?

They could add this as a whole in Kingdom Hearts 3

Yuma looks so freakin' cool in this version. I like both this version and the Emperor's new groove cause its funny. But, I'm pretty sure King of the Sun would be super dark and more for adults.

It's possible to find the entire documentary online. You just have to enter the right search terms: "the sweatbox documentary disney." It's on vidme, or vid.me, or whatever it's called.

Eartha was one of a kind, I watched her as a child in Batman and I have lover her ever since. Forever a classy one

i need a full version of this.... even if its incomplete

To me, one of the biggest disappointments with The Emperor's New Groove was that Yzma didn't have a song, everyone loves a song from the villain and Eartha Kitt had one of the best voices on the world

This would be Amazing if they added it on KHIII with Eartha's recorded vocals It would be an awesome alternative universe story of the movie with Sora & co finishing the world! ❤️❤️

Disney, you cockteases! At least put this in full animation and color to honor Eartha's memory. I'm sure she would've wanted that. ~RIP Eartha Kitt~ a great talent gone much too soon. :'(

@That Man .Over There Oh my god, me too! It depresses me that Eartha Kitt is no longer with us. Had they kept this in the film the film would have gotten even higher reviews! Such a great villain song. It's like Disney cutting out Facilier's Friends on the Other Side song. Can you imagine that? Villain songs are the best songs! This should have been kept.

It would shock a lot of people how far A LOT of films get before just being killed off. I'm glad that New Groove got made. I think the original story could have been salvaged (since test audiences didn't like it) with enough time. But given only a few weeks, a total rework was probably inevitable.

I loved Eartha Kitt. She's an amazing actress and voice too. And this movie is really underrated, but it's amazing movie with the voice of Eartha Kitt.

For the love of god disney: REUSE THIS SONG IN ANOTHER MOVIE. I BEG YOU

This is awesome, I sent my grandfather this, he really liked it. He knows all about old famous people, like Eartha Kitt.

Yzma is so damn funny LOL Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant!!!

While I do love the emperors new groove and it was probably the first Disney movie I watched when I was really little, every time I see this I always think about what could have been. The renaissance would keep going but we wouldn’t have pull the lever kronk and other things, I honestly wish we could have both but now eartha kitt is dead😢