Willow

In the book, The Bear and the Nightingale, book one of the Winter Night trilogy, the domovoi of the house can only be seen by the protagonist, Vasya.

In the 1988 film Willow by George Lucas, funny that you mentioned that you don't watch Star Wars, Yenny, but we're still bringing George Lucas into this.

There you go.

And also by Ron Howard, Brownies Ruel and Franjin swear their loyalty to the infant princess Allura Dannon and promise to protect her.

I do, yeah.

So I remembered loving Willow, and to be honest with you, I just really wanted to watch Willow.

So that is the film that we are talking about this Thursday, is 1988's Ron Howard film called Willow, which you can find on Disney+, if you would like to watch along.

Yeah.

Tom.

It was the best feeling ever because Tom doesn't love anything.

I am really intrigued to see what you thought of this film.

So, Tom, what did you think of Willow?

We've been recording for 15 minutes.

In the fantasy film Willow, the

hero must fight a two-headed dragon.

What did George Lucas name the dragon and what is the significance of that name?

Oh,

that's what we do.

Zach, you love Willow.

As a 42-year-old child.

Yes.

But before we dive into talking about the actual film, here's some background on Willow.

This was released May 20th, 1988 with a runtime of 126 minutes.

It had a budget of $35 million and made $137.6 million.

you

had there's a lot of major studios that turned down george lucas to make this because of films like crawl and legend dragon slayer labyrinth and even things like dark crystal and this there wasn't a whole lot of money being made off of these dark fantasy films even disney had one of its biggest flops with the um with black cauldron so like this is a very interesting time people are going really dark in terms of fantasy but to the rescue just like star wars alan ladd jr um offered up half budget for the so alan ladd and his production studio kept the uh theatrical and television rights

of Willow and

George Lucas and Lucasfilms being George Lucas being very savvy with money kept all home video and pay television rights so

Legend.

It's not Willow.

Willow's the one.

Willow's the one.

Willow also has a great...

Willow also...

Yeah.

So Legend is the...

Mm.

But he took this other movie called Willow, and he also felt that this movie-

The curse

... was a lot like Grand Theft Auto.

Um-

Bro, you know what's crazy to me?

But Willow, Wil- Willow was with Tom Cruise?

Yeah.