I’ve got a teaser trailer here for you to watch for a wonderful animated feature film in development titled Island of the Salamanders. The project looks like it will tell a beautifully animated story.
In the film, “Washed up on a wild island with her father, Juliet, 10 years old, meets an astonishing giant salamander. The animal and its fellows have been vegetating on the nearby small island, surrounded by sharks.
“The girl and the beast become friends. But when Juliet met the old Pramana, the guardian of the legend of the salamanders, he warns her: ‘If the salamanders are freed, they will invade the world…’”
The film is inspired by the 1936 Czech sci-fi novel War with the Newts, and it’s being written and directed by Catherine Maximoff.
The filmmaker talked about the film, saying: “The Czech writer Karel Čapek (1890-1938), a true visionary, the man who invented the word robot, imagined how things could go off the rails almost one century ago. And here we are now.
“His unclassifiable novel masterpiece, War with the Newts (1936), depicts our world as it has actually become today – on the verge of ruin. We have extracted the essence out of this literary monument dealing with political, economical, geographical, scientific, cultural issues, and have created an original story with it.
“Its narrative, its structure and all the characters have all been invented. We have developed them into one single present-day setting.
“It is a story we want to tell from the point of view of an 11 year old child, with her energy, her enthusiasm and her hope – so typical of her age. It is a family film. It should talk to children and to the child we still hold inside of ourselves.”
There’s no release date, no cast is announced, but this is a movie that I’m looking forward to watching!
