But while the
prospect of topping such a dazzling crowd - pleasing blockbuster must have been daunting and no doubt encouraged the franchise to be left cinematically untouched for a number
of years, eventually new
adaptations arose in television animation and back in live - action
film.
If they were all brought together in a single space (a scintillating
prospect), his paintings might have the aura
of props from a
film adaptation of a biographical novel, and you might forget, for an instant, that they were professionally certified art works in a mid-career retrospective.