LOS ANGELES — Homer`s ``Odyssey,`` Sinbad the Sailor and the story of Pocahontas are getting the animated-feature treatment from Walt Disney Studios. Studio Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg said the three projects are in development along with several original stories, including ``King of the Jungle,`` due next year with songs by Elton John and former Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborator Tim Rice. Katzenberg spoke at a press preview for ``Aladdin,`` the studio`s planned Christmas feature starring Robin Williams as the voice of the genie in the lamp.
``Aladdin`` features three songs by the Oscar-winning team of Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, who wrote the lyrics before they began working on ``Beauty and the Beast.`` The rest of the songs are by Menken and Rice.
