John Boorman will (almost) make a new film, an animated fantasy adventure

Ten years after Queen and Country, his last film, the director of Deliverance and Excalibur is launching into animation: an Irish studio will adapt one of his stories.

News from John Boorman! According to Deadlinethe Irish (Dublin, even) animation studio Kavaleer Productions is preparing The Honey Warsan animated fantasy film adapted from stories the filmmaker invented for his own children. The film will tell the adventure of Hope, a little girl stuck in an ancestral war between the people of Elves and Fairies and who will meet two exiles from each people… The first visual, obtained by Deadline, shows an Elf (or a Fairy?) chased by giant bees, which would suggest that the film would be in line with Zak and Crysta's Adventures in the FernGully Rainforest (1992) or, more recently, Epic: Battle for the Secret Realm (2013), ecological epics on the scale of insects.

“The Honey Wars combines the magnitude of Lord of the Rings and the eccentricity of Coraline“summarizes Andrew Kavanagh, the boss of Kavaleer, at the microphone of Deadline. For his part, Boorman, 91, is delighted that his story is being adapted for the cinema. “I am delighted that this mythical and magical story is coming to life, and I hope that it will delight the hearts and minds of children as it did with mine”declared the director of so many masterpieces. THE Point of no return, The Emerald Forest, Deliverance, Excalibur, Duel in the Pacific…but we don’t know if he will realize The Honey Wars. Probably not, given that Deadline's news avoids the subject… but we're thinking here in passing of Strange Magic (2015), latest project imagined by George Lucas, animated rereading of the A Midsummer Night's Dream which was a critical and public failure. mention Lord of the Rings is not so innocent, in fact, since Boorman almost adapted Tolkien's novel in the 70s.

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Brief ! On the voice casting side, the producers are reportedly in negotiations with Jon Voight, Brendan Gleeson, Patrick Stewart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard E. Grant and Vanessa Kirby. The latter two were also in the flesh in Queen and Country. But yes, remember: this is the last film directed by John Boorman, a sequel to Hope and Glory (1987) set in the English army of the 1950s and presented at the Directors' Fortnight of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. We spoke to him on this occasion., and he said at the time that Queen and Country was his last film: “I don’t think I have the energy to continue”he told us then, speaking of his “cinema life” which would end the moment the camera stops rolling. Remember that in a computer-animated film, the camera does not start, and does not stop…