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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui Q. Koala)
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Subject: Re: The Dark Cauldron
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Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 16:28:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 16 16:28:58 1985
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Summary: 


 
>Does anyone know anything about this one? I read the books by Lloyd Alexander
>and loved them. Is this an adaptation of the entire series or just "The Black
>Cauldron" (or more likely "The Book of Three")?

The latest I've heard is summer 1985 release. finally. By what is left of
Disney studios. People I've talked to who have seen the work being done
with it and know the technical issues of animation are praying for an
earthquake or other act of God will destroy the negatives and prints,
because there simply isn't talent of the quality needed to do Black
Cauldron properly. It was a project of Walt's and Don Bluth's that is one
of the most complicated and difficult pieces of animation ever attempted,
and the bozo's who are stuck at Disney studio's have trouble drawing their
way out of a paper bag. Not that I'm biased, or anything, but Bakshi has a
better chance of doing Black Cauldron right than Disney does. Walt would be
the first to burn that negative based on what I've heard and seen; of
course, he is dead so expect it to be released and flop at least as well as
'Fox and the Hound' or 'Black Hole', two of the more illustrious pieces of
film to come out of Disney in the last few years...

chuq 

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