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The Black Cauldron is a 1985 American animated dark fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions in association with Silver Screen Partners II and released by Walt Disney Pictures. [1] It is loosely based on the first two books in The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, a series of five novels that are in turn based on Welsh ...
In 2016, Walt Disney Pictures had re-acquired the film rights to The Chronicles of Prydain, on which the animated feature film The Black Cauldron was based, with the intention to adapt the book series into a live-action feature film series.
The Chronicles of Prydain is a pentalogy of children's high fantasy Bildungsroman novels written by American author Lloyd Alexander and published by Henry Holt and Company.The series includes: The Book of Three (1964), The Black Cauldron (1965), The Castle of Llyr (1966), Taran Wanderer (1967), and The High King (1968).
Before the release of The Black Cauldron, producer Joe Hale and his production team were working on an adaptation of the T. H. White novel. While Roy E. Disney supported the project, Jeffrey Katzenberg disliked it. Eventually, Hale and most of the team were fired, and the project languished. [86] Monkey
The Black Cauldron The Book of Three (1964) is a high fantasy novel by American writer Lloyd Alexander , the first of five volumes in The Chronicles of Prydain . The series follows the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper, a youth raised by Dallben the enchanter, as he nears manhood while helping to resist the forces of Arawn Death-Lord .
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Shortly before the film's initial 1984 theatrical release, a preview screening of The Black Cauldron was held for test audiences. Appalled by the film's "cauldron-born" dark imagery, and questioning its appropriateness for children, Jeffrey Katzenberg demanded the scenes to be edited out. Hale objected, "Animated films can't be edited."