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  • BBC remake Watership Down with less violence to avoid 'scarring' children

    04/28/2016 3:21:09 PM PDT · by originalbuckeye · 37 replies
    UKTelegraph ^ | 4/28/16 | Hannah Furness, Arts Correspondent
    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...