What was released earlier, The Shaggy Dog or James and the Giant Peach
The Shaggy Dog
The Shaggy Dog (1959 film)
The Shaggy Dog is a black-and-white 1959 Walt Disney film about Wilby Daniels, a teenage boy who by the power of an enchanted ring of the Borgias is transformed into the title character, a shaggy Old English Sheepdog.
 The film was based on the story "The Hound of Florence" by Felix Salten.
 It is directed by Charles Barton and stars Fred MacMurray, Tommy Kirk, Jean Hagen, Kevin Corcoran, Tim Considine, Roberta Shore, and Annette Funicello.
 This was Walt Disney's first live-action comedy.
James and the Giant Peach (film)
James and the Giant Peach is a 1996 British-American musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl.
 It was produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi, directed by Henry Selick, and starred Paul Terry as James.
 The film is a combination of live action and stop-motion animation.
 Co-stars Joanna Lumley and Miriam Margolyes played James's aunts in the live-action segments, and Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Jane Leeves, David Thewlis, and Margoyles voiced his insect friends in the animation sequences.
The Return of the Shaggy Dog
The Return of the Shaggy Dog is a 1987 American two-part made-for-television comedy film produced by Walt Disney Television.
 The film is set in the 17 years between the events portrayed in "The Shaggy Dog" (1959) and "The Shaggy D.A." (1976).
 It was broadcast on November 1 and 8, 1987 as a "Disney Sunday Movie" presentation on ABC. Shaggy God story
A shaggy God story is a minor science fiction genre characterized by an attempt to explain Biblical concepts with science fiction tropes.
 The term was coined by writer and critic Brian W. Aldiss in a pseudonymous column in the October 1965 issue of "New Worlds".
 The term is a pun on the concept of a shaggy dog story. Karey Kirkpatrick
Karey Kirkpatrick (born December 14, 1964) is an American screenwriter and director.
 His films include "James and the Giant Peach", "Chicken Run", "The Spiderwick Chronicles", "Charlotte's Web" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" adaptation, along with contributions to the "Smurfs" films.
 He has also directed the films "Imagine That" starring Eddie Murphy as well as "Over the Hedge".
 Kirkpatrick wrote the English-language screenplay for U.S. release of "The Secret World of Arrietty", in 2012 and "From Up on Poppy Hill", in 2013.
 His brother is American songwriter and musician Wayne Kirkpatrick, with whom he wrote the 2015 musical "Something Rotten!
". The Shaggy D.A.
The Shaggy D.A. is a 1976 American comedy film and a sequel to "The Shaggy Dog" (1959) produced by Walt Disney Productions.
 It was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Don Tait, based on the original film and inspired by the long out-of-print Felix Salten novel, "The Hound of Florence." Harley Jessup
Harley Jessup (born 1954) is an American production designer and visual effects art director who has been nominated for two visual effects Academy Awards, and won once.
 Currently working at Pixar Animation Studios, Jessup has served as production designer for "Monsters, Inc." (with Bob Pauley), "Ratatouille", "Cars 2", "Presto", "The Good Dinosaur" and an upcoming Pixar feature.
 Before coming to Pixar, Jessup was production designer on Walt Disney Pictures' "James and the Giant Peach". Pasek and Paul
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, known together as Pasek and Paul, are an American songwriting duo and composing team for musical theater, films, and television.
 Their works include "", "Dogfight", "Edges", "Dear Evan Hansen", and "James and the Giant Peach".
 Their original songs have been featured on NBC's "Smash", and in the film "La La Land", for which they won both the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "City of Stars". Paul Terry (actor)
Paul Christopher James Terry (born 7 November 1985) is an English former child actor.
 He is best known internationally for starring as James in the 1996 film adaptation of Roald Dahl's "James and the Giant Peach".
 He also starred in the four seasons of the children's sitcom "Microsoap" (1998–2000). Corpse Bride
Corpse Bride is a 2005 British-American stop-motion-animated musical fantasy film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton with a screenplay by John August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler based on characters created by Burton and Carlos Grangel.
 The plot is set in a fictional Victorian era village in Europe.
 Johnny Depp leads the cast as the voice of Victor, while Helena Bonham Carter voices Emily, the titular bride.
 "Corpse Bride" is the third stop-motion feature film produced by Burton and the first directed by him (the previous two films, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "James and the Giant Peach", were directed by Henry Selick).
 This is also the first stop-motion feature from Burton that was distributed by Warner Bros.
 Pictures.
 It was dedicated to executive producer Joe Ranft, who died during production.