...why isn't there a movie deal in place for -this- fantasy series?
Disney's misfire with The Black Cauldron was over two decades ago. I'm certain it wouldn't taint an attempt to do Lloyd Alexander's classic justice.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I agree. I think they could do an excellent job with this series.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Leave The Black Cauldron alone! It was still enjoyable to children even if you literary purists were not happy with it!
But I also agree a reintepretation of the triology could be quite enjoyable.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
The Chronicles of Prydain: The best five book trilogy (plus one book of short stories) that you'll ever read!
BlackBlade, I think you misunderstand me. I don't hate the Disney film, the "misfire" reference was to it being a massive box office flop...Disney's biggest animated dud until Treasure Planet.
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
I loved the Black Cauldron computer game when I was a kid. Somehow, the movie always felt rushed to me. Like they had to get to the end so fast you didn't have time to get to know anyone.
I'd love to see a new one with more time spent on the people. And cool CGI graphics, of course. Ooh, and lots of Gurgi. In the game, he'd run around and bump into you at random times. Random Gurginess would be excellent.
Posted by airmanfour (Member # 6111) on :
There's a cartoon Black Cauldron, but putting some real money in it would be great. Reading about Taran really kept me going as a teenager. I'm still angry that Alexander didn't keep going after The High King.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
That's right! They had that cool King's Quest style computer game! Oh man, my little siblings and I played the heck out of that game! Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Alexander wrote The Foundling (a collection of short stories set in Prydain) and has been writing other children's/YA fantasies in the many years since.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
The Chronicles of Prydain were the first real "fantasy" books I ever read as a child. They were my gateway drug...
I also read The Foundling and loved it.
I would love to see these movies on the screen.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Mmmmm... The Black Cauldron has the greatest death scene in Disney history when the Horned King bites the dust.
I loved the Chronicles of Prydain. Read them in High School. I remember finishing "The High King" in study hall and trying not to sob in front of everybody. That part when the Fair Folk depart and/or seal themselves away forever really got to me. Such a tribute to the exodus of Tolkien's Elves....the passing away of magic forever.
Another part that really stabbed me through the heart when when Taran goes on his quest to find his father/himself... and meets that artist/potter....and finally finds the thing that brings him joy. But he is no good at it and is forced to leave the thing he loved most to continue the search.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
All of Taran's closest friends and family had to leave him, save one.
And we the readers were given no more promise than him that his reign as High King was a successful or happy one...though some measure of achievement was implied during the coda.
Wept bitter tears, when I was ten. It just seemed so unfair...which I later realized was part of the point. Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I read them in junior high, and am now reading them to my oldest son.
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