![]() ![]() ![]() To remedy the issue, Musker and Clements added a monkey sidekick for Aladdin, named "Abu"-after the scrapped character from Woolverton's treatment. John Musker and Ron Clements, who joined the Aladdin project as directors, felt that Woolverton's screenplay was better suited for live-action, featured too many humans, and lacked characters that could take advantage of the medium of animation. In Linda Woolverton's version of the story, there was an elderly man called "Blind Abu", named after a thief in the 1940 film The Thief of Bagdad. These characters were dropped when the story oversaw major revisions. In Howard Ashman's original story treatment for Aladdin, Aladdin's companions were a trio of human thieves (named Omar, Babkak, and Kassim) whom, when paired with Aladdin, acted as a vaudevillian quartet. After an adventure together, the two eventually became friends. Abu served as the group's pickpocket and actually met Aladdin after making an attempt to steal his money. In the episode of the Aladdin television series, " Seems Like Old Crimes", it is revealed that, long before the events of the first film, Abu originally worked for a traveling circus of thieves, consisting of himself, a duo named Minos and Fatima, and Aziz. 4.2 Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge. ![]()
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