After being
discovered, the long lost Black Angel by Roger Christian is set to be turned into
a feature film with John Rhys-Davis (Lord of the Rings), and Rutger Hauer (Blade
Runner) starring.
Black Angel is a 25-minute
short-film commissioned by George Lucas to accompany the European and
Australian screenings of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in 1980. After its
theatrical run, all copies of the film were thought to be lost, until an
archivist at Universal found the negative, and the painstaking frame-by-frame
restoration process began. In 2013 the work was done and the film was
re-released at the Mill Valley fest in California, and at the Glasgow Film
Festival in Scotland. In 2014 the film was released on iTunes, but it can also
be seen on Youtube.
"Think Game of Thrones meets Valhalla
Rising, Excalibur meets Lord of the Rings", said Christian on the
project's IndieGogo page, where it is currently seeking funding. "A
powerful tale of ancient Celtic magic and Nordic Paganism, it’ll be gritty,
dirty and heroic – everything great fantasy should be."
Black
Angel "follows
a knight as he journeys deep into the dark underworld with the daughter of a
rival king, to meet the face of evil itself and fight the Black Angel in
combat. Full of drama, action and heroism, pure light is pitted against eternal
darkness and damnation."
Source - IndieGogo
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