With 2011 preparing to live happily ever after, Walt Disney Pictures has turned its attention to its current slate of upcoming releases, according to Coming Soon.

As the notoriously slow animation process pushes new projects to the farthest reaches of 2013, the studio’s next conceivable release will now likely be Frozen, a long-gestating adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. Due for a 3D release on November 27, 2013, the film appears to have usurped the release date previously held by Pixar’s Untitled Dinosaur Project.

The Snow Queen, a seven part fairy tale often considered amongst Andersen’s best work (but no doubt subject to change by Disney), follows the exploits of Kai and Gerda, who are forced apart when a shard of glass from the devil’s magic mirror gets caught in his eye. Unable to see the beauty and happiness around him, Kai’s personality changes, leaving him angry and spiteful, and causing him to run away from his home and family which he now views as hateful and ugly. Finding solace in The Snow Queen, an entity able to somehow bypass the mirror’s curse, Kai soon finds himself trapped, and reliant on the ingenuity and dedication of Gerda to escape The Snow Queen’s grasp. Or something.

Frozen, touted as a potential Disney release since 2002, has had a very troubled production. Recent reports, however, indicate that the project is to receive a new lease of life, as it re-enters production.