Ralph Bakshi's Original Cool World

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I kinda liked this movie even though it started to fall apart towards the end. I was surprised by how much bad reviews it had gotten. The comparisons to Roger Rabbit were a bit much.

I read on Wikipedia that the screenplay was drastically changed from the one Bakshi wrote. I found his original concept much more interesting: "Basically the original script I handed in was a cartoonist, live action, who goes to bed with a cartoon girl and they create a girl, a bastardized child, half live and half real. The half human, half cartoon child would then travel to the real world and try to murder its irresponsible father." I felt sorry for him while reading his interviews on how he was done wrong by the studio. He should sue :anime: ...

Does anyone know where I can find either the original screenplay, storyboard, concept art, etc.? This was the only thing I could find: http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/10/biography-louise-zingarelli-cool-world.html . Judging those few pictures, I can see why some things were cut. A pimp? A character with three breasts?!!!! Could this sort of animated movie had been made during those Fritz the Cat (never seen it, btw) days? It didn't seem to fit the 90s and it sure as heck wouldn't fit now.

I would really like to know more about it.
 
Well, I do know Frank Mancuso, Jr. had the script rewrotten solely because he didn't want to do anymore Horror films.

Persopnally, if Cool World gets remade, Tobe Hooper should direct it, it sounds more of his kind of thing considering the fact that he did films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergiest, Lifeforce, The Funhouse and his Masters of Horror episodes Dance of the Dead and The Damned Thing.
 
I think that you have a better chance of hooking up with Amelia Earhart than seeing a Cool World remake. That film was nominated as one of the all time worst movies of it's debut year. Since CW came out in the wake of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the character of Holli Would had no choice but to be branded a Jessica Rabbit wanna be. I doubt that either Brad Pitt or Kim Basinger would want to go through that again. Also, Cool World wasn't a horror movie, so remaking it as one would make no sense.
 
The only thing I give it credit for is for Bakshi doing it somewhat avant garde and surreal as hell. He always knows how to draw hot animated chicks, and while he didn't disappoint with Holli Would, the movie itself....meh.
 
Who says they have to be involved in a remake?


You're missing the point. Ralph Bakshi's original (and superior) concept for Cool World had a horror vibe to it that was suppressed in rewrites.
I highly suggest you read about Bakshi's original vision for Cool World.
 
I like those storyboards. The character that would become Holli originally had a much more punk vibe, which I personally think would have been cooler. The original ideal also seemed slightly more like something people could watch than the sort of unfocused Roger Rabbit ripoff we got.

But there's about a snowballs chance in hell anybody would be willing to fund a remake of a flop, especially an expensive hand-drawn animation mixed with live action flop.
 
Actually, Bakshi's original vision for Cool World was originally a Horror film.

You see, the plotline involved a guy who had sex with a cartoon character, had a child, the child hates his father so he/she/it proceeds to hunt down the father.

That's why I thought of Tobe Hooper, mainly because it just sounds like more of his kind of thing than Bakshi's. I mean, no doubt Bakshi can do disturbing stuff but Hooper can do disturbing alot more extreme than Bakshi.
 
Thank you. That was my point. Regardless how good the original script was, the movie was a major bomb-a-saurus and no director or movie studio would be willing to tackle it a 2nd time.
 
That's debatable. somehow, I don't think that any studio spends millions of dollars making a movie not caring if it does well or not, even if it is a direct to video cheapie. And anyway, I'm not the one you need to convince, it's Hollywood.
 
I know but I'm just saying if a Cool World remake were to be made, it would be a Direct to DVD film. I mean, even remakes can be Direct to DVD films. Did you know that the Sisters remake was released directly to DVD?
 
Why are you trying so hard to convince Blackstar that a Cool World remake is a good idea? As he said, Hollywood is who you need to convince, not him.

But I'll echo what he and Shawn have already said: the original Cool World was a flop, and nobody would want to attempt a remake of a movie which tanked, especially 16 years after the fact. The time to have saved Cool World's face would have been around '94 or '95. The chances of someone wanting to pour funding into a Cool World remake now are about as likely as a studio taking a chance on a remake of Ishtar or Gigli.
 
The original concept sounds much more interesting, a friend of mine is working on something similar. I also love those storyboard drawings.
 
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