Ralph Bakshi wants to make Wizards II
They might get another chance to kill Fritz; animation legend Ralph Bakshi has said that his next project will be a sequel to his cult fantasy allegory Wizards. A seminal work in the twin fields of “anti-war animation” and “large-breasted cartoon women who have the hots for guys who kind of look like Ralph Bakshi,” the original film told the story of an evil wizard who rises to prominence through the power of a lost cache of Nazi war propaganda. Now, Bakshi says he’d like to turn that same Tolkien-on-acid approach to the situation in the Middle East, which he apparently sees as rife for his particular brand of lampooning: “The Middle East today is going exactly in the direction I saw in Wizards. The ecology, and the warming of the planet…the destruction of Israel, which everyone’s getting ready to do again. That’s something I’d like to talk about.”