Just keep away from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Posted on 04/28/2016 3:21:09 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
It was the film that traumatised a generation of children, with its much-loved rabbit characters slain on screen in graphic and memorable scenes. But the story of Watership Down is to be remade for a new era, as programme-makers promise to tone down its most brutal images. The BBC has teamed up with Netflix for one of the most expensive mini-series ever made for the small screen, and the first animated four-part drama of its kind. The new version stars the voices of James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult as Hazel and Fiver, Sir Ben Kingsley as General Woundwort and Star Wars star John Boyega as Bigwig.“While we won’t shy away from the darkness in the book, visually it won’t be as brutal and scarring.” Rory Aitken, executive producer The show’s executive producer told the Telegraph the 2017 version will not just tone down the levels of on-screen violence to make it more appropriate for children, but give a boost to its female characters.
Female rabbits including Clover, played by Gemma Arterton, Strawberry, played by Olivia Colman, and Hyzenthlay, played by Anne-Marie Duff, will get a dose of doe power, as it were, to allow them to display their own heroics alongside their male co-stars. The cast, announced today, is completed by Freddie Fox, who plays Captain Holly, and Miles Jupp as Blackberry. Watership Down, which will use computer animation to bring make the rabbits more life-like than ever, is made possible by a huge injection of cash from Netflix, which will broadcast the show worldwide after it is premiered on the BBC. Programme-makers have not confirmed their budget, but sources have indicated it is similar to that of The Night Manager, which cost £3m per hour and a total of around £18m.
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The author knew what it is like to fly.
I read WD in high school... was not scarred. And now they want to give a boost to the female characters, yet cast relative unknowns to play them vs big stars to play the male characters?
I read Grimm’s Fairy tales to my kids - the real thing and not a watered down version. It’s a good thing Child Protective Services never heard about that one!
Robert E Lee also had a mare named Lucy Long.She went with him during the war as a back-up for traveler.
Good grief,that water buffalo again.
Trust me. It’s OK and you’ll survive.
I saw the movie about a month ago on TCM. First time I’d seen it.
The book and movie were big back in the day.
“Prince with a thousand enemies”
Woundwort! Woundwort! Woundwort!
Don’t be a jerk. It’s all too easy on the internet.
Don’t worry. I’m a jerk in most places - or so I’m told.
I can see that.
Just keep away from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Back off bunny, I have Brother Maynard’s Holy Hand Grenade, and I’m not afraid to use it.
“Watership Down” and “The Wild Geese” came out about the same time in 1978. I was at Ft. Huachuca, AZ, at the time and a couple of us went to see “The Wild Geese” knowing it was about mercenaries in Africa. A couple of marines chided my friend and I about ‘going to see a nature movie about birds.’ The said they were going to see “Watership Down” because it was about people escaping from a sinking ship, or so they thought. Afterwards, we asked them how there movie was and they said “It was about a bunch of (word deleted) bunnies.”
That’s funny.
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