{"id":411773,"date":"2022-12-04T19:50:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T19:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=411773"},"modified":"2022-12-04T20:12:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T20:12:21","slug":"how-jonathan-kasdan-discovered-the-heart-of-disney-s-new-willow-series-from-val-kilmer-s-80s-surfer-boy-rogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/how-jonathan-kasdan-discovered-the-heart-of-disney-s-new-willow-series-from-val-kilmer-s-80s-surfer-boy-rogue","title":{"rendered":"How Jonathan Kasdan Discovered the Heart of Disney’s New ‘Willow’ Series From Val Kilmer’s 80s ‘Surfer Boy’ Rogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all the life-changing cinema that premiered in the 1980s, Jonathan Kasdan singles out “ Willow ” as the first film to “mark time” in his existence. “It just had this psychological significance to me in my development,” Kasdan explains to Variety . “You’d be shocked at how many people say, ‘Oh, I saw that movie, it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.’” The 1988 fantasy, directed by Ron Howard (then 34) and executive produced by George Lucas, is centered around a lousy sorcerer named Willow (played by a 17-year-old Warwick Davis ) who is tasked with protecting a magical baby from all manner of treachery. Its collection of revolutionary visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic — including the transformation of an army of men into squealing pigs — along with powerhouse performances from Jean Marsh, Val Kilmer and Davis all delivered with a touch of charm is what helped to keep “Willow” in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of all the life-changing cinema that premiered in the 1980s, Jonathan Kasdan singles out “Willow” as the first film to “mark time” in his existence. “It just had this psychological<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}