Fiim School 101...Filmmaker Robert Rodrigue tells AICN that he's acquired the film rights to remake Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta’s (who passed away last week) 1983 animated feature "Fire and Ice".
Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas wrote the original fantasy adventure screenplay in which a villager and the princess of the land of Firekeep team to stop the evil Queen of Icepeak from destroying the world with glaciers.
The film used rotoscoping, the technique where animation is drawn on top of live action (ala Bakshi's animated " "The Lord of the Rings").
Rodriguez said:
“The awesome Ralph Bakshi and I have been working it out for a while...What’s cool is, unlike past projects that I’d get involved with that would get stalled for various reasons, I control the rights to this one. So it’s actually in my power to set it up and get it made, which wasn’t the case on other projects. And for you filmmakers out there, that’s really the best way to get things done. If you can manage to get the rights yourself to a property by dealing directly with the artists and creators like I did with Frank Miller on Sin City and now with Ralph Bakshi on Fire and Ice, it makes a world of difference and you can get started sooner rather than never"
And so end today's lesson
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