"Shooting Star" is the song written from Disney's 1997 animated feature film Hercules.
The song, with a central theme of feeling disconnected,[1] was written by Alan Menken and David Zippel replaced by "Go the Distance".
[4][5] They thought it made Hercules seem too soft, and decided they wanted to emphasise the "muscularity of his journey".
[4] Similar to "Proud of Your Boy" from Aladdin, "Written in Stone" and "Keep 'Em Guessing" from Mulan, and "Human Again" from Beauty and the Beast, this deleted song was reinstated in the stage adaption of the film: the 2019 musical Hercules.
The full demo recording and the accompanying sketch storyboard debuted at the 2017 D23 for a panel entitled Zero to Hero: The making of Hercules to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the film's release.