The Little Prince is being adapted into (another) film, this time by Kung Fu Panda director Mark Osborne. All I can say is, I wish the Tin Tin animated movie had half as much visual taste as this preview shows.
Le Petit Prince comes out in France in October 2015. Color me excited.
[via Cartoon Brew]
Is it actually The Little Prince or the story of a little girl who somehow gets involved with the story? Sorry, 6 years of French class down the drain….
Either way, it looks beautiful.
This looks adorable. I had no idea this movie was in the making. Thanks for the heads up!
Wow, yeah. Looks lovely.
This trailer also has a rather pretty cover of a Keane song, which is always a plus in my book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oextk-If8HQ
RE 1 ) From what I can see, the little girl is befriended by the book’s narrator (the aviator who the Little Prince tells his story to).
Lily Allen’s version of “Somewhere Onlyy We Know”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mer6X7nOY_o
Here’s a rough translation of what’s said:
The old guy: hey you there, good evening
She reads: Once upon a time there was a prince who needed a friend
Voiceover with plane: I flew almost everywhere in the world until a miraculous thing happened
Prince: please, draw me a sheep
Old man to girl: I always wanted to find someone to share my story with but I think the world has become too adult.
At the end: This is just the beginning of the story
Am I the only one that had a problem with the dialog in French and the music track in English? Perhaps the music track is only in the trailer and was just there to attract the American crowd.
I’d always imagined Saint-Exupery as the narrator of the book, but since he disappeared flying a reconnaisance mission over the Mediterranean in 1944, perhaps this movie imagines that he did not die, but rather survived and hid from the world to eventually become the old recluse shown in the trailer.
This is purely my own imaginary notion, obviously.
B, We read this in French in my fifth year. It is best in it’s original language. Use those six years to get a copy and re-read it. You won’t be disappointed.