Saturday, January 03, 2004
Last Unicorn News...
Lots of interesting stuff in this thread. The main thing is that aparantly a DVD is finally coming out soon, but unfortunately from Artisan. That means it might be pan and scan.. will have to wait and find out. I think I only saw the movie once as a little kid, but I had rented it a couple of years ago and enjoyed it.
This page gives some really interesting information on various connections. For instance that the same animation team in Japan called Topcraft that worked on Last Unicorn, the Hobbit and other Rankin Bass features made their first Japanese film with Hayao Miyazaki as Nausicaa, and then they reformed into Studio Ghibli. He has a translation and pics of an article that ran in Animage (the magazine the Nausicaa manga ran in) to show Topcraft's competency. Especially notice the first tapestry imagery which is similar to what they'd use at the beginning of Nausicaa.
As I watched Warriors of the Wind extensively as a kid (a fairly cut version of Nausicaa but still very amazing for a kid if you haven't seen the original), so this is all very much tied up into my childhood. Fascinating to see the connections between things...
Also, I hadn't heard about the live-action movie coming, but aparantly it'll be out soon. A scary thought at first, but aparantly Beagle has written the script for this version as well and even has voice actors from the animated version making physical appearances (Christopher Lee, etc..)! With that and the general buzz around fantasy movies with the LotR trilogy, I have some hope for it...
This page gives some really interesting information on various connections. For instance that the same animation team in Japan called Topcraft that worked on Last Unicorn, the Hobbit and other Rankin Bass features made their first Japanese film with Hayao Miyazaki as Nausicaa, and then they reformed into Studio Ghibli. He has a translation and pics of an article that ran in Animage (the magazine the Nausicaa manga ran in) to show Topcraft's competency. Especially notice the first tapestry imagery which is similar to what they'd use at the beginning of Nausicaa.
As I watched Warriors of the Wind extensively as a kid (a fairly cut version of Nausicaa but still very amazing for a kid if you haven't seen the original), so this is all very much tied up into my childhood. Fascinating to see the connections between things...
Also, I hadn't heard about the live-action movie coming, but aparantly it'll be out soon. A scary thought at first, but aparantly Beagle has written the script for this version as well and even has voice actors from the animated version making physical appearances (Christopher Lee, etc..)! With that and the general buzz around fantasy movies with the LotR trilogy, I have some hope for it...
