Phil Collins is writing the songs and co-writing the score with Mark Mancina whos works include Twister,Days of Thunder,and Speed. According to Animated News, disappointing sessions were held for Disney execs in January 2001, to review the artist's first 6 creations for the film, with the first master song to be recorded two months later:
-a 3'30" introduction song that has yet to be titled
-a little over 1'30" song called Fathers Footsteps
-a long 4' innocuous whiney piece called Grizz's Song, which basically is an elevator music twist on this cant be my destiny really not very pleasant
-the next two were upbeat and fun, think montage sequence showing the pleasures of being a bear, and these were two parts of the Fishing Song, each about 1'30"
-and lastly there was the title song called Brother Bear a long 5'30" apologetic and learning to live with the past song.
The actors signed on for this film include Joaquin Phoenix(who plays Kenai (the Indian boy turned into a bear)... ,Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis who used to play those happy beer-drinking canadians on SCTV and Strange Brew (OK-Ay) play Ruke and Tuke (two comic Canadian mooses), and Jeremy Suarez(who plays Koda). Michael Clarke Duncan is reprtedly invlolved as well.