John "Tweaker" Nesler and Chase Mixon are on board and already doing transcribing, which I am hugely thankful for. My chief editor is gonna be Sean "Figmentfly" Murphy, who did great work on the Legend FAQ and helped get that movie out of obscurity and onto DVD in its proper cut. Sounds like typecasting to me.
I went through EVERYTHING I have on my HD currently, and scanned about a hundred pages of new material ... and put it all in one big text file.
It is 207 pages long - just a collection of articles relating to the Thief, a great many of which I scanned and OCRed myself within the last few days. (I'll send the new stuff to Eddie, maybe it'll go on his site.)
Hopefully Sean and the team can help make sense of it all. =)
There will be more ... If John and Chase and anyone else can transcribe the Alex and Roy interviews, and the old making of documentaries like The Thief Who Never Gave Up ...
We'll post all these for reading and on the web, of course, but all this will be VITAL for quotes in building a complete version of the story.
Overwhelming at this point, as it should be ... looking at a lot of raw material which will become a really compelling story ...
The Animator Who Never Gave Up
Richard Williams and the Thief and the Cobbler
The destruction of the greatest unfinished animated film ever made
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This story is to be told in chronological order - there would be a chapter up front telling the whole sad story briefly, and then we go to Richard Williams being born, and tell the whooole story from there.
Because it's not just the story of a film, it's the story of an entire life. It's the story of a mad, temperamental genius who tried to make the greatest animated movie he could, and failed completely because of the sad realities of the film business.
This is a biography of Richard Williams and a biography of a film that is a living, breathing character in and of itself. An eccentric and strange movie unlike anything else ever made - and in that way reflects the personality of its creator, who was rather unlike any other animator.