Why Lauren Faust hated Camelot

I dont know how to get an image of the message on here, but I will say it anyways. A few days ago, Theoriginalblader asked Lauren Faust why she disliked doing the not so mentionable animated feature Quest For Camelot. From what he got from her as a reply, she didn't sound very happy over it.

"Warner Bros did not know what they were doing. They didn't care about animation being as an art form as well as entertainment, they wanted profits. If they wanted a bad Disney knock off, they should have talked to Don Bluth on their part. Camelot was planned as an animated feature in the veins of Ralph Bakshi's Wizards, you know something with a PG-13. In the end they didn't even know what to do with it. Nearly everyone I knew that worked on Camelot hated it, and they don't even want to talk about it. Personally, its makes Don Bluth's bad movies in the 90's look good. It was rather stressful since production time was overhauled for us animators to stay at the studio longer to animate the scenes since WB was about to be late for a deadline on the movie. When it was finished it tanked(I myself along with the people who I worked with knew that it was going to bomb). The heads of WB then say "Why did this bomb?", what I said to them was "You made it worst, and turned something good into something nobody wants to look at". They even had to cancel an animated film that a guy by the name of Milton Knight pitched to them. Only because they couldn't picture cartoony animation working out for animated features. Everyone I know thinks a PG-13 animated feature would have been better than a poor Disney knock-off. It still annoys me that the female character looks like Belle while the guy looks like the human version of the beast."

I was not aware that Milton Knight was pitching a feature to Warner Bros, but I think a PG-13 Camelot would have done a whole lot better.

Edit: I shouldn't have been too carried away for taking the credit, the originalblader talked with Lauren. He just asked me to post the message on here since he is having technical problems with his PC at the moment. Sorry for taking credit dude!

edited 13th May '11 5:01:50 PM by Playedforkeeps

Huh. I hadn't noticed that.

However, I think that Camelot is really awesome, and needs a better trope page.

edited 11th May '11 2:46:04 PM by Pannic

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Well...the film does manage to make the hallmark mistakes of the later Bluth films. If I had to guess at what she would say, I would pretty much have come up with the contents of the OP.

The sad thing about Quest For Camelot: the hack who directed it is still making movies.

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... Because it was a silly place?

Geeze, why the Take That! at Bluth I wonder? Maybe it's only his 90's movies she has a problem with, which I can understand. =/

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It sounds she had to deal with a heavy ammount of Excutive Meddling when it came to working on this. Its understandable why she dislikes it, also I can't believe Warner Bros of all people decided to pull a Disney stunt with Camelot. They should drop a heavy anvil on themselves for doing this poor act.

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edited 12th May '11 4:11:01 AM by Theoriginalblader

I actually liked the film, myself. Not that the Internet cares.

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The only thing that was good about this bad movie was that it had a cameo of Red. Although I do remember my younger bro asking me why she was never mentioned again.

edited 12th May '11 4:29:16 AM by Theoriginalblader

So how did you get a hold of Lauren Faust?

She's been rather open to talking to fans on her DA account.

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I find this out NOW. :D

I suppose it’s too late for a “recobbled cut” of this. Pity, as the original concept behind the movie sounds really cool.

edited 12th May '11 11:24:36 AM by Bananaquit

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Confession time: as a kid, I actually really liked Quest for Camelot.

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^ Same. I loved the dragon.

I also liked this film.

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The Dragons were pretty cool.

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