I have no idea what the status of this is, how close to completion it may or may not be, or whether it will actually ever see the light of day — but there’s a live action version of Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn (previously produced in animated form) in production.
In theory, this could be a very good thing — though I must admit, I’m a little more excited about the live-action version of C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe — apparently the first in a planned seven-film series covering the entire set of books, with special effects by the crew of Weta (you might have heard of them — they did the effects for a little series called The Lord of the Rings). Apple has a short look at Weta’s work on the film and another on director Andrew Adamson.
“I Love Saturday” by Erasure from the album I Say I Say I Say (1994, 4:02).
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“The Last Unicorn”
I was waiting for G after watching “Million Dollar Baby” last night (brilliant movie, go see it!), when I saw what must have been a behind-the-scenes video of “The Last Unicorn”, the first in what seems to be a seven part movie live action version of “…
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What I find really interesting is that they have gotten quite a few of the actors who voiced the characters 23 years ago to come back and either play those or other characters. Including Angela Lansbury as Mommy Fortuna, Rene Auberjonois(Odo in DS9) as The Skull, Mia Farrow as Molly Grue( she voiced the Unicorn in the original) and Christopher Lee as King Haggard. Info from IMDB.
It’s funny that you should bring this up, I saw this listed in Christopher Lee’s credits last night. I looked him up on a whim to see what all he had been in besides LotR/etc. and Star Wars.
I’m stoked about it.