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Guillermo Del Toro to create a live-action/cgi THE WIND AND THE WILLOWS
Hey folks, Harry here... nearly a week ago we got word that Disney was contemplating making a live action WIND AND THE WILLOWS. I really just didn't trust Disney too much upon this concept until I heard from Guillermo Del Toro that he was considering it. For the past week or so, Guillermo has been talking about the possibilities in making WIND AND THE WILLOWS, and with him behind the film I think that the movie has a chance to be magical, and to not be too 'disneyed'.
Now this wouldn't be the next project for Guillermo, he has a couple of other projects he's working on in the meanwhile. God willing he'll next be making a HELLBOY movie and/or COFFIN.
His plan on WIND AND THE WILLOWS is to take the time necessary to nail the script and the design for the film, which he seems to think is a very long process for this type of project. Maybe taking as long as 3 years, though it might come together faster. The key thing to Del Toro doing WIND AND THE WILLOWS is that Guillermo is very much MR TOAD. He gets addicted to the latest technologies, the latest cool things. He gets manic over acquiring the most important things in life like the original contract that Swan had the Phantom sign in PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE. Just imagine a WIND AND THE WILLOWS made with the same care that THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE was made. Could be very cool, so long as Disney stays hands off.
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I love the books but i discovered the charecters of the books in the tv-series that nobody seems to be mentioning(harry and others who runed the report). Like the series never excisted. What i want to ask harry is if he ver saw the british bbc tv deries?
And by the way Del Toro is too good to screw it up, i hope!:)
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is he the guy from blade2?
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This need somebody who knows how to project imaginitive ideas. Del Toro is the man, and he is filled with crazyness! OH yeah!
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WOW HARRY YOUR SITE is great!
I always check it out every day.
I loved the wind in the willows series, it had really funny moments, especially the frog was GREAT! hehe remember the AMERICAN HEROES Wyatt Earp, Eliot Ness and HARRY ! seeya ! -
Dennis Hopper plays the toppered feline. Laura Dern and Kyle McLaughlan play Thing 1 and Thing 2. And people will be talking about the scene where the cat does unspeakable things to the fish aboard the Which-What-Who for years. And it's in CGI, animation, live action and has puppets!
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I've read the story and seen the disney version, and it's probably one of the better fairy tale type stories I've read. If the CGI works, I wanna see Mr. Toad getting excited about his new motor car and going buck wild in his roadster.
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Can't talk- incoherent with glee at the prospect. Sorry.
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and Guillermo is a cojonudo director.
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Feb 14, 2002 3:19:06 PM CST
How about a CG/Puppet/Live Action "Where The Wild Things Are" di
by ambrose chappell
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this sounds pretty cool... but neither one of these titles needs be preempted by the Disney folks.. the whole time that i was watching "The Devil's Backbone" i was thinking of how all the scenes with the ghost actually looked liked Mignola or Huddleston drew the storyboards... these films MUST be made by Del Toro... P.D.Q.!!!
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Feb 14, 2002 3:50:10 PM CST
Forget all this, I want a new CGI version of CHARLOTTE'S WEB
by cash bailey
But can you honestly see them keeping that ending? Jesus, that just destroyed by that book when I was a young'un.
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Feb 14, 2002 3:51:02 PM CST
This film suddenly became major cool and higher on my must-see l
by rubby
I admit I've been slacking off so I haven't seen any of Del Toro's movies but judging from his reputation and his taste of films he has chosen to direct, I have high hopes for The Wind In The Willows. I loved the Disney cartoon but I'm hoping this new film will be more truer to the original story and more than anything else "be alive" and has true imagination in it while being faithful to the text but not become boring and have a style all of it's own. As I said before this film is now higher on my top list of movies to see when it comes out.
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I guess companies have been adapting novels and such for a long time, but doesn't it seem like every little piece of imaginative story from childhood is being made into a movie? The trend is getting out of hand.
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BAD ASS!!!
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Oh, Jesus Harry, you kill me... ahuh... ha ha... "If Disney keeps..." HAHAHAHA "their hands off..." HEE HEE HEEEEEE... oh, your fantasies kill me. What's next, an animated movie that isn't turned into an excuse to sell toys? BWAAAHAHAHAH!!! Seriously, if Disney suits DON'T stick their nose up Del Toro's ass during production, it will be another sign that the world is ending. (Britney Spears and N'Sync performing with Aerosmith at the Super Bowl was sign #4, Will Smith getting Oscar nominated for ALI was #5... yup, only two more to go... let's see.)
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I have this sortuva thing for vapid chicks.
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'cos if you really do still think it's the WIND _*AND*_ THE WILLOWS, even after posting a handful of book covers with the right title in full view, then there truly is no hope, and this site is doomed to complete it's relentless metamorphosis into being simply an announcement board for the Apple Quicktime Trailer site.
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Yep....
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Feb 14, 2002 7:32:53 PM CST
Okay, we're now officially talking about Benicio Del Toro be
by lenny nero
This is kee-razee!
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hi. just to let you know that the british animated version of twitw wasn't made by the bbc but broadcast by thames tv and made by cosgrove hall who also made dangermouse (aah, those were the days!). it was an excellent adaptation and for me the best i've seen with great character voices. but i'm looking forward to this version if it all goes to plan.
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This is one of those things you leave to High School Drama Classes. Don't Make this Movie!! please for the love of god!!! -Duty
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Don't know, but I find it somewhat strange to make another version of 'The wind in the willows', as I saw a great version with the Monty Python cast some years ago.
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Feb 15, 2002 6:58:29 AM CST
Terry Jones did a live-action version of Wind in the Willows...
by giant fish
Jones held a guest lecture at my student society a few years back, and he showed us some clips of his version of Wind in the Willows, among other things. It starred himself as Mr. Toad, along with Eric Idle and Stephen Fry. Some of the imagery was quite striking, but I got the impression he wasn't very happy with it. Has anyone seen the whole thing?
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Brilliant, as more and more pics scrolled down with the correct title, I laughed a little more. This isn't a swipe Harry, it's just to say you made me laugh while at a pointless temp job (earning to go travelling in the US- Harry got any spare rooms).
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I checked it out on video a few years ago. It'll probably be in the "children's" section at your local Blockbuster. As I recall, Disney retitled it from Wind in the Willows into something stupid- "The Adventures of Mr. Toad" or something. It was OK, but it was one of those movies that's not really interesting enough for kids and a little too goofy for adults- kind of like Jones's "Erik the Viking" actually. There is one hilarious scene where Toad (Jones) is on trial and John Cleese is the defense lawyer and Stephen Fry is the judge. This scene recalled all the silly court sketches from Monty Python. For British comedy fans, the movie also had Steve Coogan, Julia Sawalha, Victoria Wood, and Nigel Planer in small roles.
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Jesus christ Harry, take five seconds and get the name of the movie correct. WIND *** IN *** the WILLOWS. Appearing to be illiterate does not do your site justice. HAVING SAID THAT, I'm looking forward to seeing what Del Toro does. Will he play a Weasel? I hope!
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Guillermo del Toro, director of films like "Cronos", "Mimic", "The Devil's Backbone" (2.001 best film) and "Blade 2". Not to be mistaken any more, please, with Oscar winning actor Benicio del Toro.
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oh no! ok it wasn`t T HA T bad but always a lil bit crazy...just crazy!!!!
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Pleissix, a cool french cartoonist, has just finished his complete Wind in the Willows in comic books, a stunning work of art. i think it has been translated in the states by NBM.
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They took that out at Disneyworld recently, but man that was a classic. The only amusement park ride in the world in which you DIE AND GO TO HELL at the end! It was a thrilling carnival spookhouse AND a moral lesson! sk
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Feb 15, 2002 9:40:11 AM CST
There was a Saturday morning cartoon back in the early 70's
by timbenzedrine
" The Reluctant Dragon and Mr. Toad Show". It was produced by Rankin-Bass with character designs by Paul Coker Jr. of MAD magazine . The animation was repetative and cheap looking, even by Saturday morning cartoon standards, and its awful tinny music still rattles around in my head even now. In fact, I'm sure that's what turned me to drugs in the first place.
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There was also a BBC animated Wind in the Willows series produced by Thames...it was entirely stop-motion animated and was produced by the same team (with many of the same voices) behind Dangermouse...very well done, worth looking for.
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Yeah Chicken Run wasn't all that remarkable. But it was Park's first attempt at a feature length film so it was never going to quite live up to his short films. If he can rediscover the form of his Wallace & Gromit days though, then I'm definitely there.
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Did anyone see that wonderful British claymation series with the voices of Richard Briers and Michael Hordern?
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Feb 15, 2002 12:12:51 PM CST
I totally agree HappiWerld111, the British claymation 'Wind
by brokentusk
I got the entire film on video from Australia 13 years ago or so - it is definitely the best version. I hope this 'big' Hollywood version is as good.
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Look, it's an ALLEGORY. The weasels who take over Toad Hall are the working class (you and me, basically) who live in poverty and stage a revolution against Toad, the worthless, parasitic, upper-class moron. He regains his illicit wealth with the aid of his middle-class lackies and the weasels are reduced to snivelling servitude. Fuck this and fuck Kenneth Grahame. Didn't David Jason voice Mr. toad in the BBC series?
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No disrespect to Del Toro's undoubtedly ability, but I just can't see him doing Wind in the Willows. It's like Walt Disney remaking Fight Club. But I remain open to being convinced
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I remember watching pretty much every episode of that when I was 5 or 6, I've probably still got a few of them somewhere. David Jason was indeed Toad (and the greatest ever-Del Toro if you're listening GET HIM BACK FOR YOUR FILM OR IT WILL FAIL!) Michael Hordern was Badger (alas he died aged 84 in 1995-he was a great Gandalf on radio too) Ian Carmichael was Ratty (Peter Sallis-ie the voice of Wallace took over halfway through) and Richard Pearson was Mole (I don't know if he's still alive or not)
If you want to do another live action version (and Terry Jones's version wasn't that great) get David Jason as Toad, Hugh Laurie as Rat, Timothy Spall as Mole and Tom Baker as Badger. -
Sorry, thats kind of sick.
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I've ordered the DVD of the Cosgrove-Hall claymation film from 1983 (which incidentally was shown on ITV not the BBC, that of which I'm almost certain); I have a video from 1989 with 3 episodes of the subsequent TV series on it, and upon reflection, David Jason CANNOT be beaten as Toad! Shame about Michael Hordern, didn't know he had died.
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I went to the Blade 2 website and listened to a lot of his commentary. I've also read some of his online interviews. He is one seriously messed-up freak. He's all about perverted sex, especially sex that doesn't reproduce; he's obssessed by sterility. Anti-Catholic. Loves bloody gore and violence. What in the WORLD is Disney thinking turning over a beloved innocent children's tale to this sick FREAK?? Read "Disney: The Mouse Betrayed" by Peter and Rochelle Schweitzer for more on how/why Disney has been totally ruined by Eisner and pals since their arrival in '84.
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Yes, I saw the BBC show. And I loved the book.
Our Marxist friend RoosterBooster is probably wrong that this the story is an allegory, since Marxists, of both the traditional economic variety like him, and the cultural Marxists/Politically Correct types, interpret EVERYTHING through their obssessions. For Marxists, EVERYTHING is class war, even children's fairy tales. For PC-niks, EVERYTHING is about WHAMs (white heterosexual able-bodied men) oppressing everyone else. Both hate Western Civilization. Still, if he's right, that's another reason to love this story, since it annoys Marxists. Oh, and RoosterBooster? We Americans don't see ourselves as the oppressed masses; nearly all of us, including those who really struggle economically and those who are quite well-off, see ourselves as middle class.
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