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Title: "The Last Unicorn"...Returns? Post by: Squishy on October 19, 2002, 11:55:39 PM I don't know whether to celebrate or run sobbing into oncoming traffic.
Probably due in no small part to the success of "Fellowship of the Ring," Peter S. Beagle's "The Last Unicorn"--once adapted into a Rankin-Bass animated film--is going to be filmed again, this time as a live-action movie. (http://www.the-last-unicorn.net/index.htm) The amazing thing is, they're casting many of the actors who voiced the same characters in the cartoon! This is their main cast, so far: King Haggard: Christopher Lee Mommy Fortuna: Angela Lansbury The Skeleton (and Captain Cully): Rene Auberjonois Molly Grue: Mia Farrow (slams on brakes) SCREEEEEEECH. Wait. Molly Grue--Mia Farrow?!? MIA FARROW???? Okay, the 'toon came out in '82, so I can see why Mia's not playing Amalthea again, even if that was the only performance by her I've liked--but Molly Grue? I'm not going to be able to make the leap from Tammy Grimes' to Mia Farrow's voices. But we'll see. One of the movie' two directors was a producer for the first version. The other director has a background in special effects and editing, primarily in Monty Python and Terry Gilliam movies. (Unfortunately, the first director also directed "Nukie." (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0107715) Hold me...I'm scared.) The movie's site has a truckload of storyboards, designs, CGI tests--no horses with plastic horns, that's a good sign--and so on. Check it out! Does it fill you with joy, or dread, or a combo platter? Like one reviewer at the IMDB entry, (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0084237) I too wonder why the 1982 film isn't available on DVD (outside Italy...I even checked Amazon.co.Japan, but the film was never released there at all). Trivia: Peter S. Beagle, author of "The Last Unicorn," was a co-author of the Ralph Bakshi "Lord of the Rings" toon. (He's fully in charge of the new "Unicorn" script.) Title: Re: "The Last Unicorn" on DVD Post by: The Strange German on October 20, 2002, 05:49:01 AM If you happen to have a codefree DVD player (that can play PAL discs) you also could buy the German DVD. It features the English audio track (but it is very short on further extra goodies...). Available via amazon.de, if anyone's interested.
Regarding a live action flick... I'd actually look forward to it, if done right it could be great (especially with Lee as Haggard). cheers Markus Title: Re: "The Last Unicorn"...Returns? Post by: Squishy on October 20, 2002, 05:54:09 AM Aw, thanks, dude. I'm a Godzilla and "Futurama" fan, so I'm set up for Region 2 (Godzilla from Japan, "Futurama" on European DVDs). I'm all over that DVD! Thanks again!
Title: Re: "The Last Unicorn"...Returns? Post by: The Strange German on October 20, 2002, 09:29:47 AM Forgot to provide the link:
amazon.de (http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MOL0/qid%3D1035120432/028-9504980-2777357) Title: Re: "The Last Unicorn"...Returns? Post by: The Strange German on October 20, 2002, 09:30:21 AM Yip, didn't work, then the cut&paste-version ;-)
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MOL0/qid%3D1035120432/028-9504980-2777357 Title: Re: "The Last Unicorn"...Returns? Post by: Chrisb on October 21, 2002, 03:26:25 PM NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.......
Title: Re: "The Last Unicorn"...Returns? Post by: AndyC on October 21, 2002, 04:54:02 PM I'm actually somewhat relieved that this is a live-action retelling of the same story. The title of this thread made me think that someone had decided to stick the characters in an all-new adventure some committee of hacks pulled out of their collective asses to make a potfull of cash.
If this is an attempt to jump on the LOTR bandwagon, that could mean that there will also be some quality work done. The fact that they're rounding up the cast from the animated feature suggests that somebody has a real love for the movie. Hope that turns out to be the case. On a less serious note, for Transfans, the story could be reworked into The Last Unicron, a heartwarming story about a planet-sized killer robot. Just a goofy thought I couldn't resist expressing. Title: Re: "The Last Unicorn"...Returns? Post by: Squishy on October 22, 2002, 02:40:51 AM Yeah, I'm lucky I caught my typo in the subject line before I posted the original message--I originally typed "The Last Unicron." The Trannies would've been all over me for that...
(I also wondered if tacking "Returns" on the end was false advertising, but at least it got someone to look!) |