What If Elsa Was Frozen’s Villain? Original Movie Plan Explained

The original plan for Disney’s Frozen would have seen Elsa as the villain, and this would have resulted in a significantly different—and likely less successful—story. The House of Mouse had played around with the idea of adapting Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen since as early as the 1930s, but it wasn’t until the better part of a century later that a solid concept began development. Still, this was very different from the version of Frozen that audiences know and love because, instead of a tragically misunderstood hero, Queen Elsa would have been a spiteful villain.