Watership Down (2018) [BBC1]

Mr E

Out this Christmas - the trailer just came out.

Nice cast, but people seem to be taking issue with the animation...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3gQ117IKkM

ThePott

Yikes, not really a Watership Down fan but had a passing interest in this cause of the cast but..

That animation looks unfinished, like a PS2 game, that's crazy.

pixelburp

A jolly tale for Christmas then

The animation is a bit cheap looking; seems to be a BBC / Netflix joint production (it's appearing on the service as well), you'd think they'd spring out for better CGI than the kind you saw fadó fadó in the early 2000s.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Yeah, that animation looks not great.

Is hand drawn animation more expensive to produce, I wonder?

ThePott

When this was announced they it was touted as one of the most expensive mini-series ever for the small-screen.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/27/bbc-remake-watership-down-with-less-violence-to-avoid-scarring-c/
I guess most of that money went at the cast.

Less violence too so I guess it will only be dodgy CGI that gives kid's nightmares for this version.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

ThePott wrote: »

When this was announced they it was touted as one of the most expensive mini-series ever for the small-screen.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/27/bbc-remake-watership-down-with-less-violence-to-avoid-scarring-c/
I guess most of that money went at the cast.
i

Bit like the John Lewis advert apparently being the most expensive one they've made at about 7 million, but about 5 of that went in Elton John's back pocket.

JP Liz V1

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Bit like the John Lewis advert apparently being the most expensive one they've made at about 7 million, but about 5 of that went in Elton John's back pocket.

He's a pocket man

It airs as two feature length episodes on BBC 1 on Saturday 22 December and Sunday 23 December

Mr.Nice Guy

I read the book a couple of years back not knowing what the story was about. I'd seen it listed in one of those '100 books you must read' lists. I thought it was brilliant. Wish I'd read it when I was younger. I'll give this a look.

Arcsurvivor

I have been waiting for this. I tried watching the cartoon movie, but I did not like it at all.

gimli2112

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I read the book a couple of years back not knowing what the story was about. I'd seen it listed in one of those '100 books you must read' lists. I thought it was brilliant. Wish I'd read it when I was younger. I'll give this a look.

when I was a kid I always put it as the 2nd best book I ever read after LOTR, now I'm an adult I can admit it was the best
Read it again recently for the first time in years