Tag: Willow

Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard will soon be treading into the fantasy landscapes of “The Dark Tower”  for a wildly ambitious film and television adaptation of Stephen King’s magnum opus, and when he does there’s no doubt that his mind will turn back to “Willow,” the 1988 sword-and-sorcery film that tested Howard more than any other project. “For me that was sort of like going to grad school,” Howard said of the collaboration with producer George Lucas, who had come up with the concept more than 15 years earlier. “There was a new level of understanding that I needed to come to terms with the greater canvas, the greater cinematic canvas. Of course, George Lucas is sort of a natural master in that regard and [the project] was his idea. So while I was given global latitude — and it was even the first time I was ...