Willow

Willow (1988)

Timing: 2:6 (126 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1988-05-20

Country

United States

Production

Lucasfilm Ltd., United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Imagine Entertainment, MGM

Genre

Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Budget

$35 000 000

Revenue

$57 300 000

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Director

Ron Howard

Actors

Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Patricia Hayes, Gavan O'Herlihy, Phil Fondacaro, Pat Roach, Rick Overton, Kevin Pollak, Billy Barty
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Scenario

Producer

Joe Johnston, Nigel Wooll, George Lucas

Operator

Adrian Biddle

Composer

James Horner

Artist

Audition

Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins

Editing

Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill, Richard Hiscott
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• After the film's unsuccessful release, screenwriter and producer George Lucas abandoned plans for a sequel and returned to working on 'Star Wars'.
• It was in 'Willow' that morphing objects were first used in the history of cinema – people there transform into pigs, and a gorilla-like troll into a lump of bare flesh.
• The sorceress's commander, General Kael, received his name in honor of film critic Pauline Kael. And the two-headed dragon, according to the press release materials, was named Eborsisk – this nickname, in turn, is derived from the names of film critics such as Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. True, this name was never spoken in the film itself, but was used in several reviews.
• The idea to make the film belonged to George Lucas. Lucas spent a long time developing the fairy-tale universe, but he offered to bring the project to the screen to an old friend, Ron Howard, whom Lucas had known since the film 'American Graffiti' (1973), where Ron played one of the roles.
• Devil dogs are Rottweilers in rubber masks and costumes.
• In 1988, Wayland Drew wrote a novelization of the film's screenplay, "Willow".
• After the film's unsuccessful release, screenwriter and producer George Lucas abandoned ideas for a sequel and returned to work on "Star Wars."
• "Willow" was the first film in history to use morphing objects – people transform into pigs there, and a gorilla-like troll turns into a lump of bare flesh.
• The idea to make the film belonged to George Lucas. Lucas spent a long time developing the fantastical universe, but the project was offered to an old friend, Ron Howard, whom Lucas had known since the film "American Graffiti" (1973), where Ron played one of the roles.
• In 1988, Wayland Drew wrote a novelization of "Willow" based on the film's screenplay.