Οι νέοι ήρωες της οθόνης [?, Θησαυρός τ.1402, 7/10/1965]

[rotagiatipino]

Ενδιαφέρον άρθρο στο περιοδικό Θησαυρός για Διαβολίκ, Μόντεστυ Μπλαίηζ, Μάντρεϊκ, Μπαρμπαρέλα!

 

 

[Retroplaymo]

Επειδή κάτι τέτοια, χρίζουν ψαξίματος έχουμε και λέμε....

 

1) Diabolik: Ο  Jean Sorel, δεν έπαιξε ποτέ τον ομότιτλο ήρωα τελικά, εν αντιθέσει, υπάρχει μια ταινία του 1968, σε σκηνοθεσία του Mario Bava

και παραγωγή του Dino De Laurentiis, το Danger: Diabolik με τον John Phillip Law.

 

2) Mandrake: Ο David Niven, επίσης δεν έπαιξε ποτέ τον ομότιτλο ήρωα όμως, στην wikipedia, στο λήμμα για το κόμικ,

βλέπω ότι υπάρχουν μπόλικες ταινίες, ανάμεσα τους και μια Τουρκική παραγωγή (!) καθώς επίσης και δυο που ακυρώθηκαν,

την μια μάλιστα ήταν να την σκηνοθετήσει ο Federico Fellini!

 

3) Modesty Blaize: Στο λημμα της wikipedia για το κόμικ, υπαρχουν 4 ταινιες! Η μια δεν γυρίστηκε ποτέ, η δεύτερη  είναι του 1966 και παίζει όντως η Monica Vitti, η τρίτη είναι μια μονοώρη του 1982, η τέταρτη είναι του 2004 και βγήκε απευθείας σε video, υπό το banner του Quentin Tarantino.  Ο Tarantino μάλιστα, ήθελε για πολύ καιρό να σκηνοθετήσει μια ταινία Modesty Blaize και μάλιστα έως ένα σημείο το σενάριο το είχε γράψει ο Neil Gaiman όμως, μέχρι σήμερα δεν έχει γίνει τίποτα!

 

4) Barbarella: Εδώ, όντως το άρθρο συμφωνεί με την wikipedia, καθώς υπάρχει η ταινία του 1968 με την Jane Fonda, σε παραγωγή και πάλι (όπως στο Diabolik) του Dino De Laurentiis.

 

[thor77]

Το έτος της δημοσίευσης είναι κάπως υπερβολικό...

[germanicus]

Αναφορικά με τη ταινία του Duccio Tessari όπου θα έπαιζε και ο David Niven. Αντιγράφω τις πληροφορίες από το http://www.mandrakewiki.org στο λήμμα για τις ταινίες που εντέλει δεν γυρίστηκαν

 

"1960s
In 1963 the Italian production company Produzioni Cinematografiche Mediterranee (P.C.M.) was working on a Mandrake film project, and announce the next release of the first Mandrake adventure film. By 1964 the Italian producer, Dino De Laurentiis, was involved in the project. When David Niven and his wife spent 10 days in Spain with Grace and Prince Rainier on their new yacht a raft of producers flew up to see him. In a press release from Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate in 1964, David Niven wrote that the producers dangled a super production of "Mandrake the Magician" under his nose, and that Dino De Laurentiis was to send up his group to discuss a new script. According to "La Stampa" Freddy Mack was in Rome to act as Lothar in a "Mandrake" movie.

 

Alain Resnais, the French director and vice president of CÉLEG, said he was inspired by comics, especially by his favourite "Mandrake the Magician". In "Toute la mémoire du monde" (1956) there is a glimse of two French Mandrake comics, and in "L’Année dernière à Marienbad" (1961) the actors make use of cartoon-like rigid and artificial postures. While visiting New York in 1964, Resnais talked with Lee Falk and invited him the first International Exhibition of Comics (Salone Internazionale dei Comics) in Bordighera (Italy). After the Exhibition in Bordighera February 1965 Lee Falk spent a few more days in Italy, to visit the publisher "Fratelli Spada" and talk with Duccio Tessari about the Mandrake film project.

In April 1965, Tessari said the film was to be produced by Luciano Ercoli, Alberto Pugliesi and Rizzoli Film. Tessari said he would be the scriptwriter together with Lee Falk, and the film would be processed in September. The filming was said to last for four months, in Rome, London, Paris and Barcelona. He also said that for the role as Mandrake it had been thought up to David Niven, who was in agreement. Now the project needed to find an unknown actor, resembling the character and that can become the official interpreter for the other films that will certainly follow this first: a bit like Sean Connery for James Bond. According to small notices in US newspapers Louis Jourdan had been asked to play "Mandrake the Magician".

 

In June 1965 Tessari said the Mandrake project was four films and the first was to be put on place next September (1966 ?). He said that David Niven's contracts did not allow him to commit to the whole project and that he now was looking for a new actor for the role as Mandrake. He had not found an actress for the role of Narda, but would like her somthing similar as Joan Fontaine in "Rebecca" or as in "Notorious" by Bergman. Narda's clothes was to be made by Cardine and Chanel and with a necklace by Cartier. The role as Lothar was assigned to Serge Noubret. The first film was to be set in our days and had background from four countries, from England to Italy. Mandrake is tracking down an atomic scientist who has been kidnapped and in twenty very busy days saves him, before international complications occur. Mandrake, more like a scholar than a magician, quoting Diderot or reading Gide solves the most risky situations by hypnotic gaze of his mysterious eyes. The filming should last three months and plan is to present the film, titled "Mandrake", on Easter Saturday.

 

Also in June 1965 Duccio Tessari announced in a press release, that he was going to England soon: "To try to find an actor to cast Mandrake in his movie based on the adventures of the comic strip magician". The script for "Mandrake" was written by Tessari himself.

 

About the role of Mandrake it was some kind of miscommunication between Tessari and Niven, since Niven in October said that he after a picture was to do "Mandrake the Magician" in Europe.

Interesting Lee Falk copyrighted "Mandrake and the Power Mystery", a 61 pages script for a Mandrake movie in 1969."