Coco co-director Adrian Molina has explained that the studio simply didn’t have a short ready to pair with Coco due to the time crunch of producing two films in one year, so when they got the call that Disney was looking to place Olaf’s Frozen Adventure, it made sense, especially since the two films had related themes of family and tradition.
Olaf’s Frozen Adventure is about to leave theaters where it has been seen ahead of Coco for the last three weeks.
Seeing a straight Disney property ahead of a Pixar film was an odd combination to start with, but now we know why it happened.