Children's cinema: "Hopefully 'Dartacán y los tres mosqueperros' serves to encourage reading in children"

Once upon a time there was a boy who grew up without a television.

Claudio Biern Boyd's greatest adventures are lived alongside names like Jules Verne or Alexander Dumas.

His characters jumped from the pages of a book to the restless mind of a little boy who could not even dream that those fictional beings would turn into an animated reality.

Many years later, the children of the eighties discovered

Dartacán and the three muskedogs

on the small screen, thanks to Boyd's production, which was already nicknamed the

Spanish Walt Disney at that time

.

Now, that magic of bringing the whole family together can be seen in the movie

Dartacán and the three muskedogs,

which arrives on the big screen on August 18.

With the Spanish animation magnate and with Toni García, director of the film, we chatted about a film full of universal values ​​with a message that we are sure will permeate again.

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Updating a 1982 series

Of course the children of the eighties are not the same as those of 2021. More than 40 years have passed in which the little ones in the house have gone from astonishing naivety to knowing them all. So beyond the nostalgic exercise towards moms and dads, they had to understand how to attract current audiences without betraying the values ​​that the television original had. There is something essential about it and that is that in the BRB International series there is action, but there is no violence: “In the first duel of the film it is clearly specified: 'You already know the rules, at the first touch'. In a society marked by violence, we continue to bet on products that yesterday and today serve so that I can sit down with my children to see them without being ashamed. We have respect for the person, education and culture in the film's DNA, ”says Claudio Biern Boyd.

Women are empowered. Claudio Biern Boyd comments: “Juliet was a passive pamphleteer. Now she is the head of the band, the Queen's trusted lady, in constant struggle ”. On the other hand, we find

Mylady

, now transformed into a kind of

Catwoman.

Another aspect that the animation mogul considers essential in that update is music. Now the hyperstimulated children want "very bombastic music." So they have had an impressive symphonic band and the Escolanía de Navarra. They also have the voices of the Eurovision Song Contest Serafín Zubiri, and Cristina Ramos (

Tu Cara Me Suena

) to put the romantic and forceful note to this unforgettable soundtrack.

As if that were not enough, with new technologies they have been able to give greater importance to action scenes, very limited four decades ago.

"Parents are going to find the DNA of the original series."

Toni García, director of the film and already present in the sequel to the original series, wanted to emphasize the nostalgic winks of the film.

Although it is an update to the full-blown series, they have not wanted to lose the magic of the animated original that 'sneaks in' in some

flashback

scenes

and dreamlike moments in which the characters regain their old 2D appearance.

A wink that will surely dazzle the moms and dads who sat down every Saturday afternoon to enjoy the series at La 1.

It is not the only gift that the most veteran spectators will find.

According to Claudio Biern Boyd, at the final karaoke moment at the premiere at the Huesca Festival, the stalls were filled with tears: “they had remembered their childhood, their parents ... You are comforted to see that the film remembers such wonderful memories.

Only the word Dartacán already evokes beautiful moments in several generations and that is something that fills me a lot ”.

"I hope

Dartacán and the three muskedogs

serve to encourage reading"

For Claudio, it would be very important that the public who go to theaters as of August 18 felt the need to go to the literary originals that so moved him when he was a child who dreamed through the pages of the great classics.

The idea of ​​starting from literary originals makes sense when he tells us that “the key to animation success is 70% in a good script.

Many special effects, but little script I see now in part of the cinema.

So for me it is essential to tell stories that I believe are still universal. "

With the interest of reaching the international market, Claudio has put his script in the hands of Doug Langdale (

Puss in Boots, Kung Fu Panda

) who has given it cinematographic form.

Willy Fog

, next cinematographic challenge.

Without having released their first cinematographic creature yet, Claudio and Toni are already thinking about the next project. We all remember the unforgettable songs

from Willy Fog's Around the World

. Well, it seems that at last, our Walt Disney will be able to turn into a musical that great story that he so longed to turn into a musical - in fact he made a theatrical adaptation at the Calderón Theater in Madrid. They already have the

pre-script

ready, in the absence of completing the financing. We hope to be able to sing in a few years that of "they are eighty days they are ...", but while that moment arrives we will sing that of "they were one, two and three ...", do you know it? Well, on August 18 they have an appointment in their cinemas.

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