‘Frozen’ Director Confirms ‘Tarzan’ Conspiracy Theory

Yes, Disney fans, the rumors are true: There is a connection between Frozen and Tarzan — and it’s exactly the connection you think.

Frozen co-directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck blew everyone’s minds in a Reddit AMA when Jennifer revealed that Anna and Elsa’s parents — the King and Queen of Arendell — didn’t exactly die on the boat at sea as the film’s opening montage suggests. Instead, "They got washed up on a shore in a jungle island. The queen gave birth to a baby boy. They build a treehouse. They get eaten by a leopard…”

All of this sound familiar yet? It should, as it’s basically the premise to Tarzan, the 1999 animated movie (which is based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs series that is now nearly 100 years old). And who co-directed that movie? None other than Buck, who has now confirmed that Anna, Elsa, and Tarzan are all siblings. Well, in his world, anyway.

In an interview with MTV, Buck explained that "Of course Anna and Elsa's parents didn't die.” This is, after all, a Disney movie, and while Disney movies may get pretty bleak at times (looking at you, Hunchback of Notre Dame) most are pretty uplifting.

Buck explained that “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. They end up building a tree house and a leopard kills them, so their baby boy is raised by gorillas. So in my little head, Anna and Elsa's brother is Tarzan.”

Of course, this storyline isn’t officially endorsed by Disney, but it’s fun to think about. As to why or how this fleshed-out alternate reality came to be? Buck says that "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. I think Jen and I were walking to a meeting, and I just start to tell her the entire story.”

And there you have the legend of this Tarzan. We can’t vouch for the Alexander Skarsgård version.