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.

• see too: Unproduced and Unfinished Films, section "1980s"

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.

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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

• Julien Temple Nitrate Film
• Julien Temple