The Pini's are holding a panel at Wondercon in San Francisco this friday, from 6:30-7:30 in the evening:
Let's Do the WaRP Time Again: Wendy Pini and Richard Pini
Venue: Room 220
Wendy Pini (Elfquest, Masque of the Red Death) and Richard Pini (Elfquest) are the W and R in WaRP Graphics. Join them for an unscripted progress report on Elfquest: The Final Quest, the Masque of the Red Death graphic novel (and musical), and last but not least, the Elfquest movie.
Speaker/Artist(s) Info: Wendy Pini, Richard Pini
LinkSince we live not too far from SF, Kael and I are hoping to attend that panel. Any chance that anyone else on these forums will be attending? I'd love to say hello to you guys.
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Well, we did it! Don't know if the video is going to turn out to be any good...we haven't checked it out yet. If it does have adequate sound, we'll get that updated later today. We may go back today, so time is a little crunched.
The key points that come to my mind are:
Re: Final Quest
- Intended to have 3 acts. Likely means it will be 3 volumes.
- Will be in color.
- Going to start Fall-ish, according to Wendy (Richard wanted to give a more vague answer, heh)
- Hints for what is terrifying Cutter in Final Quest are within Dreamtime, so reread that series carefully
- There was a lovely color version of the Final Quest drawing from the 1990s that I'll try to at least extract a still of
Re: General ElfQuest
- Evidently Skywise's dream in Dreamtime was lifted from an actual dream that Richard had.
Re: Fan Movie
- I got to see the Nightfall actress (Paula Rhodes) in her costume at their table, and OH MY GOD SHE IS ADORABLE! She's
tiny. And has has rather big eyes and great cheekbones...it's like you are literally seeing Nightfall. You want to put her in your purse and take her home.
- There was a 50-second teaser for the fan trailer, which I understand is online now at
http://www.elfquestfantrailer.com- Paula Rhodes and Stephanie Thorpe were at the panel as well, though not in costume at that point. Very well-spoken women.
Re: WB Official Movie
- Not too much that wasn't already on the internet, but I was encouraged to hear Wendy say that the recently announced producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has a rep for "getting things done".
- I'm not certain if they were just gushing about the technology or not, but when I was talking with the Pini's at their table, it sounded like they were confirming that the Elfquest movie was going to be done liveaction/CG style, ala Avatar and Gollum. Since I can't recall them stating that officially elsewhere, though, I'm not sure if that's really the case or not. (Kael: "I think they were just gushing about the technology")
- It sounds like WaRP is a fan of WB, and WB is a fan of ElfQuest. There are more people on the project besides Rawson Thurber who want to see it happen. Evidently Mr. Bonaventura had pitched an ElfQuest movie to paramount over a decade ago!
For my own personal SQUEEEE, Kael and I cornered poor Wendy and extracted some convention sketches out of her. ^_^ I got myself one of Crescent, and we got one of Ember and Teir together. <3 <3 <3 I don't want to scan them in, because these are special to us and I dont' want the internet to nomnomnom on them too much, but I'll take a photograph of them once we have them framed.
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