Mandrake the Magician: Screenplay by Julien Temple
Starting point
Julien Temple was hired in 1980 by Goldcrest Films in London to to direct and adapt Mandrake the Magician as a screenplay.
Setting
The setting is in New York, Los Angeles and Yucatan.
Plot
In New York Mandrake is performing with his assistants, Hojo, Lothar and Karma. Among the audience is Narda, a princess of a small European kingdom. She is in America urgently trying to raise the $50.000.000 needed to rebuild her country after a devastating earthquake. She asking Mandrake to help with the fund raising, and he agree to donate the proceedings of their upcomming concert at the Hollywood bowl. A number of obstacles forced Narda to sign a commercial deal with a religious organisation, the Citizens Temple of California and their leader Father Bocar.
Behind the scenes
- Embassy Pictures commissioning the screenplay by Temple but hired Michael Almereyda in 1982 to do a complete rewrite.
Sources
- storyboard distributed to sponsors at Cannes in 1980.
External links
| Team Ups, Mandrake outside the comic strips, Varia | |
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| Team Ups |
Defenders of the Earth • Kings Watch • King: Mandrake the Magician • Kings Quest |
| Adaptations |
1939 Movie Serial • 1940 Radio Show • 1954 TV Pilot • 1967 Killing vs Mandrake • 1979 TV Movie • Unproduced and Unfinished Films • Musical: Mandrake the Magician and the Enchantress • Prose Stories • Defenders of the Earth • Comics on TV • Pop Art |
| Memorabilia | |
| Other |
Easter Eggs and Cameos • Fanzines and Fan Magazines • Reference Books |