Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watnot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!bfeir From: bfeir@watnot.UUCP (bfeir) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: The Black Cauldron Message-ID: <11244@watnot.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 19:46:52 EDT Article-I.D.: watnot.11244 Posted: Tue Jun 25 19:46:52 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 05:35:06 EDT References: <2294@topaz.ARPA> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 35 > From: Peter G. Trei> > >> ...The Black Cauldron....but the title sounds promising. > > > > Sounds promising? Don't you recognize it? You mean you've > > never read Lloyd Alexander?[...] > > > > The Book of Three > > The Black Cauldron > > The Castle of Llyr > > Taran Wanderer > > The High King > > der Mouse > > {ihnp4,decvax,...}!utcsri!mcgill-vision!mouse > > I dont claim to have specific knowledge of where Disney's writers > are getting their plot, but to automatically assume that The Black > Cauldron derives from Lloyd Alexanders' work is a little like saying > that an earlier Disney opus 'The Sword in the Stone' is based on the > film 'Camelot'. Actually, you are dead wrong. Disney has shown a short preview of the show on one of their weekly shows. This was about 6 months ago, and at that time they only had the rough drawings, so it wasn't much of a show. But even so, it was definitely the adventures of Taran. It _is_ based on the set of books by Lloyd Alexander, albeit it does not follow them exactly; what movie does? \ / / \ Bubble, bubble | | Toil and trouble \ /\| /\/ Fire burn and \/|/\|\/ Cauldron bubble! ~~~~~~