![]() ![]() While Beagle’s sci-fi novel has sold 6.5 million copies in 25 languages, the film has been seen by tens of millions of people, according to Connor Cochran, Beagle’s dedicated business manager. The above exposition - which is straight-up awesome in and out of context - makes much more sense when you know that Beagle is the author of the 1968 science fiction novel “The Last Unicorn.” When animation legends Rankin/Bass wanted to translate his story into an animated film, Beagle demanded to write the screenplay the result, 1982’s lushly animated “The Last Unicorn,” is one of the best-loved children’s films of the ’70s and ’80s. But she’s different now because she does know regret, and she does know sorrow, and she’s forever cursed.” “The unicorn has become unique even among her own people in the sense that she will always be the one who regrets,” Beagle said earlier this week via telephone. Beagle was talking about his writing, his art, his character development and his best-known work - which is to say that Beagle was talking about unicorns. ![]() Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]()
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