I'm a little more hopeful for a Dragonslayer disk TODAY than I was in the 00's, since Dragonslayer, like Popeye, Clue and the Harrison Ford Jack-Ryans, seem to be on the list of Paramount "orphans" that are a little too accessible to streaming and third-party disk.
I don't want to say "Public...
"'Please take care of my baby--'"
"Ba-ba!"
"Yeah, you're a 'baby', says right here!"
(Not sure if that was in the script, but my favorite synergy of Williams-meets-Mercer ad-libs.) :lol:
While Robin & Shelley were trying to capture the cartoon voices, screenwriter Jules Pfeiffer said he was trying to capture the whimsical comic strip--The subplot about Baby Swee'pea predicting races was originally written for Eugene the Jeep (who we only saw in a couple of the Fleischer toons)...
Let's just say it's pretty darn likely. Popeye's been getting heavy rotation among the OOC Paramount "orphans" on streaming, and a disk release was When-Not-If.
I'm not sure what the theory was behind Altman:
I'd also heard Robert Evans' Dustin & Lily casting, back before Robin Williams...