Fire and Ice
There ’s no doubt that Sony Pictures wasin dire need of some good word , and thankfully , it may have arrived . Fans of eighties - era renovate fantasy are also in chance , as it was announced today that the studio apartment had discharge a tidy sum forFire andIcewith manager Robert Rodriguez ( Desperado , Spy Kids ) , a contrive unrecorded - action relaunch of the 1983 animise feature of speech from Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta .
Deadlinehas the study , with Rodriguez referring to the moving picture as his very own homage to illustrator Frazetta , and another attempt to accommodate a beloved artist ’s expressive style to film ( as he did with Frank Miller ’s comic book adaptationSin City ) . The original photographic film called to a great extent on the late Frazetta ’s art style , made famed by his work on picture show posters and fantasy deed of conveyance likeConan the BarbarianandPrincess of Mars .
To say that Franzetta ’s hand - paint facial expression became a trademark of the barbarian / medieval / phantasy task of the earned run average would be an understatement ; and withFire and Ice , the artistry was carry into film , painted over top of the form ’s performance . But with decades of technology now at his garbage disposal , Rodriguez take it ’s in conclusion possible to bring the globe of Frazetta ’s imagination to lifetime on the self-aggrandizing screen :
“ It was my dream to work on with him , and the first thing I did when I get to Hollywood was call him . I get him to do a From Dusk Till Dawn bill for me , and I let to crop with him and have it off him over the year . When I ’d visit him at his museum and see his artwork , I endeavor to visualise what would the ultimate Frazetta moving picture be . I retrieve the movie he did , Fire And Ice , back when I was a kid . I call back , ‘ I wish they could have made it look more like the painting , but I guess they ’d have had to paint each frame . ’ Now , you could do that . You could make it bet like you were in his imagination . He did n’t use model , he did n’t use swipes . He painted strictly from his imagination , and the persona and the colors made you finger like you were in a dream , and a amply realized and wholly reckon humankind . It was so visual and stunning . ”
Even in departures from his more action - orient project , Rodriguez ’s hungriness for arresting visual landscapes has never bumble . But it ’s difficult to ideate just what he envisions forFire and Ice , seemingly account as " a live on painting " of sort . And it wo n’t just be fan of the original phantasy photographic film eager to see how it turns out - it may contain the potential for a brand new film dealership .
For those who missed the 1983 handout of the firstFire and Ice , the story should seem standard enough for the genre . In the fortress of Icepeak and Firekeep , the malevolent Queen Julianna drives humans to the south with an onslaught of glacier , sending her barbaric , monstrous minion to kidnap the lovely ( and scantily - clad ) Princess Teegra for her son , Nekron . The architectural plan falls to piece when Teegra catches the attention of the unfearing Larn , who teams with the mysterious ( and baneful ) Darkwolf to foil Julianna ’s architectural plan , and return Teegra safely home .
That outline has all the fashioning of either an animate fantasy or a big - budget smash hit in the right hands , and after working with Bold Films to move the indie labor forward ( and acquiring the right from Bakshi ) , Rodriguez claims the moving-picture show ’s true potentiality became exculpated :
" The more we start putting it together , we recognize it could be something much bigger and it started attracting A - lean natural endowment . I think , ‘ Let ’s partner with a studio , ’ but which would give it the arugula fuel it deserves ? I ’d try Mike De Luca was looking for enfranchisement , and I thought this could fit the broadsheet because of the subject thing and the gift that was concerned , masses who ’d look the presentation I had and wanted to . flex out Mike was a big Frazetta fan , and the studio apartment was the arrant place . I ’d part out with them with El Mariachi , and I had a long kinship with the studio and it seemed like the perfect arugula fuel for this . We ’re actively interviewing to charter A - list writer to do another pass to get this going next class . I ’m unrestrained . ”
rooter of the original photographic film are in all probability eager to hear just which " A - list natural endowment " has expressed involvement - since Rodriguez has work with many , manytop - tier actors and actresses - but the theater director warns that preproduction depends on a finished handwriting , which may not do before the summertime 0f 2015 . There may be plenty of employment ahead to bring Frazetta ’s " heighten world " elan to life , but given the furore status ofFire and Ice , the potential franchise will remain on the radar of many .
We ’ll keep you updated as moreFire andIceupdates go far .
