Fire & Ice: Possible Live-Action Movie Adaptation

[ARNie]

Finally some Sony news that's not related to the hacking fiasco...

Sony Pictures has acquired a big package that gives the studio a potential franchise. Robert Rodriguez will direct a live-action version of the 1983 animated film Fire And Ice. The film is Rodriguez’s homage to his friend, the late legendary animator Frank Frazetta, on whose works Frazetta and Ralph Bakshi based that original film. It’s a big buy for Sony Pictures at a rough time for that studio, and a deal that reunites it with Rodriguez; Columbia Pictures acquired the Sundance breakout El Mariachi, Rodriguez’s memorable debut. The intention is for Fire And Ice to be the birth of a fantasy adventure franchise, informed by the dreamlike worlds Frazetta poured into his paintings.

In the original film, a small village is destroyed by a surging glacier domain for the evil Ice Lord, Nekron. Sole survivor is a young warrior who vows vengeance, and when Nekron’s subhuman, apelike creatures kidnap a king’s daughter, the warrior becomes determined to track down and free her...

...For Rodriguez, the project is as much an homage to Frazetta as Sin City was to the graphic artistry of Frank Miller. Frazetta made his mark illustrating works like Conan The Barbarian and Princess Of Mars, and he came to Hollywood and first worked on movie posters that are considered the standard. Fire And Ice was his sole film. Rodriguez was a longtime friend of the late artist who routinely tours Frazetta’s artwork to be sure his legend lives on.

The rest of the article at Deadline:
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Haven't thought about Fire & Ice for a long time...anyway, it'll be a while before any more developments happen with this one, still initial thoughts on this?

[Yami]

Had no idea the cartoon version was made as well.