http://www.cartoonbrew.com/internet-television/bbc-netflix-team-cgi-watership-remake-139245.html
>The BBC is making Watership Down as a four-part animated mini-series, and Netflix will be the exclusive distributor of the series outside of the UK. The 4-hour CG-animated series will premiere on BBC One in the UK next year.
>CGI
>"significantly less violence"
>"more prominent role for female characters"
...Alright, which one of you bastards had the monkey's paw?
Gotta cash in on that female bunny craze, huh?
In other news, they will also be remaking Animal Farm without the whole depressing communism backdrop and nobody dies.
>>82405649
>significantly less violence
booo
>>82405734
>they replace Napoleon's char with Gamer'Gator
>Snowball is Snowbelle
>>82405828
>Movie ends with Snowbelle coming back and saving all the animals
>"This goes to show not ALL pigs are bad!"
>>82405649
Pfffffff, fuck this gay earth.
Everything about this post is so full of wrong I feel like real life is parodying itself.
>>82405649
>CGI
>"significantly less violence"
stopped reading there.
won't see it for it is already shieet
>>82405649
I'm not happy about the CGI announcement. But maybe they'll do something interesting with it.
That said, I understand them toning down the violence. It's not like the old film ceases to exist because this new one is coming, and it's much too scary for kids as it is.
Watership Down is a great story. I'll reserve judgement for the final product. The real important stuff to me is the origin myth, the prophetic vision, and the ghost burrow. I think those things should remain intact. If they want to tone down the rabbit violence and remove the blood from the traps, I think that's very reasonable. Those scenes scare a lot of kids.
>>82405649
Oh for fuck's sake, just remake the Wind in the Willows then.
>which one of you bastards had the monkey's paw?
>wasting a monkey's paw on something that was already perfect
>>82406398
oh it will cease to exist because people rarely look up old movies...ask 10 people off the street if they have seen a Titanic movie that wasn't the 1997 Cameron film.
>>82406398
Why remake something that doesn't need remaking?
If they want a kid-friendly bunny movie why don't they just make up an original premise? Why go back and reimagine something that already has a well-done adaptation?
No, the movie isn't suitable for kids. But it's fine that way. I can't imagine this being anything except worse than the original film. It will inevitably fuck up at least several things because somebody decided they had a "better idea."
>>82406485
>>82406472
>Why remake something that doesn't need remaking?
The original animated adaptation cut out a LOT of the book.
>>82405649
Hey at least they could still get John Hurt back to voice Hazel again.
>>82406485
I think they want to target a different audience than the other movie does.
It's not a remake, though. It's the book's second adaptation. I think that's important to understand.
>>82406485
>Why remake something that doesn't need remaking?
Look at that gay new jungle book movie
>>82406539
And do you think this won't?
I hope they make a 2D El-Ahrairah story
Plus there was that Canadian made TV series
>>82406628
>And do you think this won't?
I admit I jumped to the end of the thread when opening and did not catch
>"significantly less violence"
>"more prominent role for female characters"
So yes it will be shit.
Monkey's paw indeed.
why do people today don't want to see violence in movies anymore.
death and pain are both realities of life.
i feel sorry about these people who just wants to keep their eyes closed and only thinks that the world revolves around them.
IS NOTHING SACRED TO THOSE LIMEY FUCKS
>>82406398
>That said, I understand them toning down the violence.
Kill yourself.
>>82405734
I wonder if you know George Orwell was a socialist?
>>82407657
Yeah.
The book was still a criticism of Stalinism.
>>82405649
Why does my country hate animation /co/?
>>82407657
>>82409213
Fuck does socialism have to do with communism?
>>82409224
Just trying to make up for past mistakes of traumatizing the shit out of their audience
>>82405649
BRIGHT EYES BURNING LIKE FIRE
>>82405649
honestly, the CGI part is the only thing worrying me here. I'm fine with everything else.
Just the problem here is that the BBC basically puts ALL their budget into one show a year, and seeing as they already clearly spent it all on The Night Manager this year, this is all but guaranteed to look like ass.
>>82409236
stop
>>82409265
>He raised his head and said, ‘Do you want to talk to me?’
>‘Yes, that’s what I’ve come for,’ replied the other. ‘You know me, don’t you?’
>‘Yes, of course,’ said Hazel, hoping he would be able to remember his name in a moment. Then he saw that in the darkness of the burrow, the stranger’s ears were shining with a faint, silver light. ‘Yes, my lord,’ he said. ‘Yes, I know you.’
>‘You’ve been feeling tired,’ said the stranger, ‘but I can do something about that. I’ve come to ask whether you’d care to join my Owsla. We shall be glad to have you and you’ll enjoy it. If you’re ready, we might go along now.’
welp
>significantly less violence
When do we shoot up the office of the fuck who decided this was a good idea?
What next, adding porn to kids shows?
>>82410074
/tfw you'll never get to spend a warm summer's evening silflaying with Judy on the downs.
>>82407657
He spent the last years of his life completing an anti-commie propaganda and wrote a list of suspected commies for the British government. His experiences in Spain had long since disavowed him of any support he may once of had for communism and his public position after the commie's actions in Spain was that of a "Tory-anarchist."
Sorry guys, I went and watched this for the first time last night, and I have this poor luck where if I start playing a game or watch a movie, they announce a new version of it within a week afterwards.
My bad guys.
>The new series will be written by Tom Bidwell (My Mad Fat Diary) and directed by Noam Murro (300: Rise of the Empire).
Oh fuck me.
>Entire point of the novel was stylized zoological accuracy
>Fuck that, social justice bunnies and diplomacy
I want off this ride
How the hell are they going to make a story about a bunch of bucks running across the country and then settling down and fighting a war against some other bucks in order to steal their does be female prominent, hell if they're added to the first half then the entire conflict of the second is lost and if Hyzenthlay is more successful in her attempts to leave General Woundwort & co. without BigWig then the conflict of the 2nd half is also lost?
>>82405649
>tfw the only time this movie is ever posted here is for /co/ autists to rage over this shitty remake
It's like nuPPG all over again
>>82410775
>Searching for posts that contain ‘watership down’ and posts before 2016-04-27. 1089 results found.
https://desustorage.org/co/search/text/watership%20down/end/2016-04-27/
>>82410774
Woundwort is a shitlord who needs to be displaced so an Equal society can be established.
>Female rabbits including Clover, played by Gemma Arterton, Strawberry, played by Olivia Colman, and Hyzenthlay, played by Anne-Marie Duff, will get a dose of doe power, as it were, to allow them to display their own heroics alongside their male co-stars.
>doe power
>doe power
Again:
>doe power
Didn't the original have a strong female presence? I recall the climax working out due to the corporation of male and female rabbits.
>>82406581
You're gay
>>82407657
He was a Tory Socialist.
>>82411512
D'oh!
>in 2016 they're softening up Watership Down for kids
>in 1982 they changed the ending to Plague Dogs to make it bleak as hell
>>82405649
At least the Redwall Saga remains untouched.
>for now...
>>82412236
The cartoon series for that was actually pretty good.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2W_3uXqsfw
>>82405649
>"While we won’t shy away from the darkness in the book, visually it won’t be as brutal and scarring."
They're not changing the plot; there's just going to be more offscreen violence.
>>82405649
>strong female roles
...
What the fuck does feminism have to do with nature and trying to not fucking die? Isn't Watership Down pretty much how the world is seen from a bunny/rabbit's pov? Like a damn war zone?
>>82412348
It have nothing to do with it but they're gonna do it anyway because strong independant women need that, it's obvious
I love how the argument 'the original isn't suitable for the children' is thrown around in defence of this remake going underway. Like the original was made with kids in mind in the first place. Might as well make a kid-friendly version of Plague Dogs while they're at it.
>>82409224
What's the last decent, non-preschool thing from here anyway? All I can think of is Gumball and The Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists.
>>82412429
Well let's be thankful it's just the novel and not the movie. Besides if it were planned to be a remake of the movie, I don't think 3rd wave femicunts would like seeing the females get torn to bloody pieces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPBck3xcUJc
>>82412348
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i1sqMef5AQ
they've already turned one of the characters into a female in the tv series
>>82406398
>Those scenes scare a lot of kids.
Kids today are worthless pusses! I watched this as a kid and had no issues! Fuck the even showed it to us at school!
>>82413177
Why didn't they just fuck like rabbits when they got to Watership Down rather than search for mates then?
>Changing story elements
This upsets me more than the CGI senpai
>>82413302
They will probably make it a fight over territory and resources instead of the "problematic" fighting for mates.
>>82413177
What was the series like, anyway? Was it at least Farthing Wood tier?
