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From: bfeir@watnot.UUCP (bfeir)
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Subject: Re: The Black Cauldron
Message-ID: <11244@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 19:46:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 25 19:46:52 1985
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> 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!
            ~~~~~~