Frozen director confirms amazing fan theory about Anna and Elsa's secret 'brother'

Chris Buck, the co-director of ‘Frozen’, has just dropped a pretty stunning bombshell that links up the 2013 Oscar-winner with another character from the Disney canon.

For some time there have been fan theories that have mused whether the parents of the princesses of Arendelle, Anna and Elsa, actually survived that massive wave that engulfs their ship in the opening part of the movie, leaving the sisters orphaned.

And it seems that in Buck’s mind, they did. But more tragedy was set to befall them.

“When you’re working on a feature, you have a lot of time to think about stuff because it takes four years to make one,” he told MTV.

“I think Jen [Lee, his co-director] and I were walking to a meeting, and I just started to tell her the entire story.

“I said, ‘Of course Anna and Elsa’s parents didn’t die’. Yes, there was a shipwreck, but they were at sea a little bit longer than we think they were because the mother was pregnant, and she gave birth on the boat, to a little boy.

“They get shipwrecked, and somehow they really washed way far away from the Scandinavian waters, and they end up in the jungle.

And they live there happily ever after, right?

“They end up building a tree house and a leopard kills them, so their baby boy is raised by gorillas,” he goes on, before dropping the ame-changer…

“So in my little head, Anna and Elsa’s brother is Tarzan.”

There are a wealth of other fan theories out there – that their parents shipwreck is the one that Ariel explores in ‘The Little Mermaid’, or that Elsa and Rapunzel from ‘Tangled’ are twin sisters – but the Tarzan one appears to be coming from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.

Sure, it’s a stretch, but he directed the film and devised the story, so he’s allowed to make it.

“I say, whatever people want to believe, go for it,” Buck added. “If you want to tie them all together, then do it. That’s the spirit of Disney.”

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