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Title:Arcana Caelestia
Notice:Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:NETRIX::thomas
Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1300
Total number of notes:18728

259.0. "Elfquest Movie/TV" by RAVEN1::HEFFELFINGER () Wed Aug 28 1985 16:19

   Not sure whether to put this here or in Comics.not but I heard this at
the Atlanta Fantasy Fair so I guess I'll put it here.

   There will be an Elfquest movie.  It is slated for 1988-9.  Wendy Pini
is very pleased with the way things look.  Not only that, but it looks like
there will be an Elfquest cartoon on Saturday mornings.  (REaction to this 
from the audience was mixed.  At this point she reassured everyone that has/
will be maintaining complete control of the project.)

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259.1PEN::KALLISWed Aug 28 1985 19:3913
>(... At this point she reassured everyone that has/
>will be maintaining complete control of the project.)

As someone who's not much into elves (see my "Murphy" for my comment on 
elves), it makes little difference; however: the _Star Trek_ people were
supposed to have "complete control" over the TV cartoon project, and yet
the results were hardly what everyone really wanted.

Harlan Ellison, whom I have mixed feelings for, broke a TV executive's jaw
for his (the execs) attitude.  Nonwithstanding Harlan's Act of Principle,
most television execs' attitudes haven't changed significantly.

Steve Kallis, Jr.
259.2NUTMEG::BALSThu Aug 29 1985 16:083
Good thing you didn't put it in the COMICS.NOT, as that has disappeared

:-) Fred
259.3AKOV68::BOYAJIANFri Aug 30 1985 08:4419
>> (... At this point she reassured everyone that has/
>> will be maintaining complete control of the project.)

>                                            the _Star Trek_ people were
> supposed to have "complete control" over the TV cartoon project, and yet
> the results were hardly what everyone really wanted.

What everyone really wanted in that case was the actual live-action show
back. I know very few people who were greatly disappointed in the STAR TREK
cartoon show. While the animation wasn't anything to cheer about, the scripts
were generally as well-written as those of the original show, taking into
account the limitation that the cartoon show was marketed towards a younger
audience. At any rate, Roddenberry and company were sufficiently pleased
with the cartoon show that it is considered a valid part of the canon.

(And the whole run of episodes was worth suffering through if only to see
Spock in the role of a Pierson's Puppeteer.)

--- jerry
259.4NACHO::CONLIFFEMon Sep 02 1985 19:4011
Well, frankly, I think that the Pini ElfQuest series could be implemented 
as a Saturday Morning cartoon without suffering any noticeable loss of 
"quality". 

Still, it could be a good movie, especially if done by someone who could
do Wndy's work justice, you know, Dino De Laurentiis.


Let's cast the elves... Bo Derek, Tahnee Welch, Brigitte Neilsen, Sandahl
Bergmann....

259.5Not today, folks.....SSDEVO::CHAMPIONThe Elf!Mon Jul 13 1987 20:3010
    
    If anyone cares (doubtful), the project is in limbo for now.  Not
    enough executive interest, not enough support, not enough people
    conforming to the Pini's standards.
    
    And, looking at the shape that animation in the United States is
    in, that decision was for the best.
    
    Carolyn