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We need us some Chronicles of Prydain movies

I liked The Black Cauldron. I only wish I could have seen it in 70mm! John Hurt made for a really scary Horned King. I'm hoping there will be a remastered DVD or Blu-Ray one of these days. It would be nice to finally see the deleted scenes cut out by Eisner and company.

Disney took some flack for daring to do a dark and scary PG animated film back in 1985. The funny thing is, the theater I saw it at had a huge line of kids there to see Rambo II, and hardly a parent in sight!

I recall Disney had the rights to all the Prydain books at the time. Anybody know who has the movie rights now?
 
No idea. How about casting? In a few years, The Golden Compass' Dakota Blue Richards might make a perfect Eilonwy. Atia from HBO's Rome would be a perfect Achren. Taran should probably be an unknown... Not sure who'd be Gwydion. Ewan McGregor would have been ideal, but it's too Obi-Wan-ish.
 
Another vote to see a faithful adaptation of the novels. I absolutely loved them as kid. I have even reread them as as an adult and still thoroughly enjoy them. I think Ill read them again when I get my books out of storage next year.
 
Out Of My Vulcan Mind said:
Dark Horse has the film rights to Fritz Lieber's Swords of Lankhmar series, which they're trying to get off the ground
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The ideal director for this would be Guillermo del Toro. (And he recently said that he'd love to do a Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser film.) With Mike Mignola on art direction. But, if it happened, it wouldn't happen until a couple of years after Hobbit II.
Peter Jackson has optioned Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, although if he directs them himself it'll obviously be a while before he gets around to them
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Temeraire would be awesome, but it would be so different that it might be a difficult sell. I'd cast Rufus Sewell as Laurence.
 
I've always been vaguely curious as to the Disney movie's plot, knowing that it mixed the first two books, but didn't want to watch it. Well, here's a rather complete summary.

I think there's a lot to like here, plot-wise. The idea that the Horned King is looking for Hen Wen in order to locate the Cauldron is much more cinema-friendly than the plot of The Book of Three, and the fact that the baddies don't start out controlling the Cauldron solves that nagging mystery of why they don't have an overwhelming supply of Cauldron-born to wipe out Prydain before the series even starts.

So maybe (unlike my suggestion on the previous page of a TV show) a trilogy of movies would work after all: Cauldron, Llyr, High King. (Wanderer could be recapped, I guess, at the beginning of King.) I wouldn't advocate following the Disney plot exactly; I'd have to think about how best to piece the first two books together. But again, the looking-for-the-Cauldron hook, IMO, is a great idea, one that comes as a revelation to me, and would definitely be the starting-off point for any adaptation. I guess that TBoT could be followed (with Gwydion!) until Spiral Castle, and then have the heroes go to Morva, learn the secret of how to destroy the Cauldron, find Hen Wen with the Fair Folk, where she's revealed the Cauldron's location, and with Doli's help, they could race against the baddies to the spot, and maybe the Horned King croaks by falling into the Cauldron during a battle with Gwydion's troops. Needs work, I know, but not a terrible start...

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Rii said:
My memories of the series are hazy, but what was wrong with The Black Cauldron? Didn't it involve the first appearance of the three witches? They were awesome.

I've been meaning to pick up a compilation volume sometime.
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Rulius was referring to the Disney movie, discussed earlier in this thread.
 
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