“Elliot the Dragon” will be in our cinemas on August 25th. It's the remake of the 1977 family film Elliot the Smirking Monster, which starred real actors alongside a hand-animated cartoon dragon. The film is still considered a classic today, even if it is not one of the really great films like Mary Poppins. The fact that «Elliot the Dragon» will be more of a reinterpretation than an actual remake is made clear by the fact that, unlike the original, the film is not set in the early 20th century, but in the present. But not only the story breaks new ground, but also the visualization of the new dragon, for which Walt Disney Pictures has published pictures, a trailer and a poster.
Many people will have particularly fond memories of the cute smirking monster Elliot, who was able to make himself invisible and who loved to eat baked apples with his friend, the orphan Pete, for life. At that time Elliot was still hand-drawn and consistently showed lovable qualities, so that even the small children in the cinema audience were certainly not afraid of him. It even went so far that the dragon was given various pink elements such as hair, wings, etc. There is no longer any pink for the smiley monster. In the reinterpretation, Elliot was animated in a contemporary way in CGI and no longer by hand and many of his optical features that made him look so loving were completely disregarded. Director David Lowery (Ain't Them Bodies Saints) told Entertainment Weekly magazine that the new dragon was inspired by all sorts of animals, including Australian fruit bats.
Certain things about the original design we loved: big jaw, big snout, and a clumsy quality that we really wanted to not completely forget about. We explored pink, just to see what would happen. From the get-go, the aesthetic was always to make everything feel as handmade as possible, including effects. To really have it feel like a blur between a very grounded realistic world and a world in which a big green dragon that can turn invisible can exist.
Elliot the dragon | Trailer
What is new, for example, is that Elliot has a fur and will be a lot bigger than the cartoon dragon. Even if you were inspired by the original (Lowery speaks of the big jaw, the big snout and the clumsy nature of the smiley monster), in the end a completely new dragon was created, which should scare smaller children especially at the beginning - at least that is the impression of the first trailer and the first pictures, which allow a first clear view of Elliot. The lead roles will be Oakes Fegley, Bryce Dallas Howard, Oona Laurence, Robert Redford, Karl Urban and Wes Bentley.
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