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 Posted: Thu, 28th Apr 2016 11:44 Post subject: watership down remake |
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why do they bother is it so they can make it more femcentric?
they probably mess up the story, trying to shoehorn new characters in there.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/28/bbc-and-netflix-team-up-for-new-watership-down-production
| Quote: | A new BBC adaptation of Watership Down will feature John Boyega, the actor who sprang to fame in the new Star Wars film, in an all-star cast including James McAvoy, Ben Kingsley and Gemma Arterton.
The four-part animation will give a more prominent and heroic role to the female characters in Richard Adams’s novel, which tells the story of rabbits forced to find a new home after their warren is destroyed, than in the famously blood and gore-heavy film of 1978.
Arterton will be joined by co-stars Olivia Colman and Anne-Marie Duff in what is understood to be the first animated TV drama series.
A co-production with House of Cards broadcaster Netflix and with a budget understood to be close to £20m, it is the BBC’s biggest joint venture with the US video-on-demand service to date.
Nicholas Hoult, the former Skins star who appeared in last year’s Mad Max: Fury Road, will play Fiver, the rabbit seer who is troubled by visions of impending doom, with McAvoy voicing his older brother, Hazel.
Boyega, who was praised for his role as Finn in last year’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, plays fellow bunny Bigwig, with Kingsley in the role of cruel General Woundwort.
Arterton, Colman, and Duff will play three of the other rabbits in the charming and occasionally brutal story of a community of rabbits in rural southern England.
Using the latest computer-generated animation techniques, the new adaptation will air next year on BBC1 in the UK and premiere on Netflix around the rest of the world.
The new adaptation is written by Tom Bidwell, who wrote E4’s Bafta-nominated My Mad Fat Diary, and directed by Noam Murro, whose previous credits include fantasy war film 300: Rise of an Empire.
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Commissioned by the BBC, it is a co-production between the BBC and Netflix and will be made by independent production company 42 and Murro’s Biscuit Films.
Josh Varney, of 42, said the new adaptation would be faithful to Adams’s book and aimed at a family audience.
“Most people’s frame of reference is the movie from the late 70s but the book is a 400-page epic and we have got four hours of TV to really let the story and the characters breathe,” he told the Guardian.
“Tom Bidwell has done a brilliant job of being able to weave in more female characters, which I think the audience will find exciting. It’s about rabbits trying to find a home and within that story there are does and we wanted to amplify those roles to give more balance to the piece.”
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| Posted: Thu, 28th Apr 2016 11:57 Post subject: |
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Just can't imagine this being a classic in its own right. It's a fantastic story, but id just can't shake the feeling they'll ruin it
Also annoyed they've cast the Star Wars guy... And as bigwig, no less...no thanks. Just no. He's not a decent actor, they're clearly casting him purely for the Star Wars cred, and that's a terrible sign for a new project.
I'm happy with hoult though, I like him, and mcavoy as well is a really solid actor.
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| Posted: Thu, 28th Apr 2016 13:37 Post subject: |
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Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh... Bet they'll ruin it and I'm sure they'll probably end up with some fluffehbun version of it. Otherwise its mental abuse towards our frail little mongrels. 
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| Posted: Fri, 29th Apr 2016 00:49 Post subject: |
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Nice cast, but then again they'll be playing badly dubbed CGI rabbits so whatever. 
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