Jonathan Kasdan explains how Disney+'s new Willow series came to be: 'The only thing that made this happen was that we loved it. That Ron Howard had affection for it and that Warwick Davis felt that it was right.'
” as the first film to “mark time” in his existence. “It just had this psychological significance to me in my development,” Kasdan explains to. “You’d be shocked at how many people say, ‘Oh, I saw that movie, it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.’”
“He was always talking about death dogs and Bavmorda and Raziel,” recalls Howard, who directed the “Star Wars” prequel from a script by Kasdan and his father, Lawrence Kasdan. “I was trying to focus on the galaxy far, far away.” “Val’s such a specific and critical part of the magic of it because he was such an odd thing for a fantasy movie to have” Kasdan explains. “You look at Tom Cruise in ‘Legend’ and he’s doing Puck in ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ Or Rutger Hauer in ‘Ladyhawke’ and it’s all this of English-y leaning into the ideas about fantasy.
“Ruby emerged for me as the antidote to a lot of the challenges of this,” Kasdan says. “When she came in to read, it reminded me in spirit of Val. Not that she was aping the thing at all, but that she was a contemporary actress in a fantasy, and that was cool to us.” Kasdan kept fluctuating the script with each new cast member even Erin Kellyman, who’d already worked with Kasdan on “Solo.”
Kasdan spent 11 months abroad trying to revive the magical realm, exacerbated by COVID complications and preproduction. When things got dire, Kasdan found himself seeking counsel from a different Hollywood kingdom: “Game of Thrones” showDavid Benioff and Dan Weiss, who shot extensively in the UK. The duo helped “Willow” get crewed up and even connected him with horse master Camilla Naprous, whose father worked on the original film.
While much of the humor and swagger was inspired by Kilmer, Kasdan stresses that the heart and soul of “Willow” remains with Davis. The series continues the story of the struggling sorcerer, “but his magic, his real magic is his heart and his devotion to the people around him, his family and his friends,” Kasdan says.20 years later, much has changed for Davis. The actor now has grown children, who joined him on production of “Willow.
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