You could make it look like you were in his imagination. I thought, ‘I wish they could have made it look more like the paintings, but I guess they’d have had to paint each frame.’ Now, you could do that. I remembered the movie he did, Fire And Ice, back when I was a kid. When I’d visit him at his museum and see his artwork, I tried to figure what would the ultimate Frazetta movie be. I got him to do a From Dusk Till Dawn poster for me, and I got to work with him and know him over the years. “It was my dream to work with him, and the first thing I did when I got to Hollywood was call him. But with decades of technology now at his disposal, Rodriguez claims it's finally possible to bring the world of Frazetta's imagination to life on the big screen: To say that Franzetta's hand-painted look became a trademark of the barbarian/medieval/fantasy projects of the era would be an understatement and with Fire and Ice, the art was carried into film, painted over top of the cast's performance. Fans of 1980s-era animated fantasy are also in luck, as it was announced today that the studio had completed a deal for Fire and Ice with director Robert Rodriguez ( Desperado, Spy Kids), a planned live-action relaunch of the 1983 animated feature from Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta. There's no doubt that Sony Pictures was in dire need of some good news, and thankfully, it may have arrived.
