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A new trailer has been unveiled for The Little Prince animation film. The story for this project comes from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s beloved children’s book.

The video embedded above features the voice acting talents of Mackenzie Foy as the young girl, Jeff Bridges as the pilot, and Riley Osborne as the prince. Follow this link to watch the international trailer (in French).

This movie adaptation came out in France back in July 2015. The United States release date has been scheduled for Mar. 18, 2016. (via MovieWeb.com)

Every week men sit comfortably at the cinema and look on at the bombardment of some Shanghai or other, some Guernica, and marvel without a trace of horror at the long fringes of ash and soot that twist their slow way into the sky from those man-made volcanoes. Yet we all know that together with the grain in the granaries, with the heritage of generations of men, with the treasures of families, it is the burning flesh of children and their elders that, dissipated in smoke, is slowly fertilizing those black cumuli.

The physical drama itself cannot touch us until some one points out its spiritual sense.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars

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— Zelda Williams (@zeldawilliams) August 12, 2014

Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late Robin Williams, shared a quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince on Twitter and Instagram in remembrance of her father.

In her posts, Zelda wrote: “You – you alone will have the stars as no one else has them…In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night…You – only you – will have stars that laugh.”

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All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming—a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. All of us, on seeing old friends again, have remembered with happiness the trials we lived through with those friends. Of what can we be certain except this—that we are fertilized by mysterious circumstances? Where is man's truth to be found?

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#95 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1943)

One of the most marvelous books in children’s literature. Period. – Hotspur Closser

And now the book that I simply could not believe didn’t make the poll the last time! Though I’m sure we all read it in in French class the book has suffered over the years from a kind of overexposure.  Recently, however, it has been all over the news.  One minute we hear that they’re attempting another major motion picture (possibly to blot out the memory of the 1974 version).  The next there’s a brand new graphic novel series of new Prince adventures coming out.  And don’t even talk to me about that new TV series they’re considering.

The plot as described by Anita Silvey reads, “The Little Prince from planet B-612 encounters a stranded aviator in the Sahara Desert.  While the pilot works to repair his engine, for he has a supply of water that will last him only eight days, the Prince shares his vision of Earth, the universe, relationships, and life.”

And who, you might ask, chose it as their favorite book in Anita Silvey’s Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book?  That would be Peter Sis, m’dears.  He writes, “The book that most influenced my life – perhaps even my entire career – is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, which I discovered sometime between the ages of twelve and fourteen… The Little Prince showed me that very individual and personal feelings could be communicated in a story.  But it also showed me that an artist could incorporate these feelings and emotions in the drawings.  It alerted me to the potential of art and guided me to a career as an illustrator.”

Many of us know that Saint-Exupery is one of the more tragic tales out there.  This was his sole work for children and in 1944 he died while flying a WWII mission.  At the time his body was never found.  Then, decades after his death, a fisherman managed to locate a piece of Saint-Exupery’s jewelry.  Using this, the French were able to find his plane beneath the sea and give it the attention it deserved.

Of course there was the small matter of Saint-Exupery’s will and the fact that his wife forged it.  But THAT little story will wait to be told in a book I am currently writing with Peter Sieruta and Jules Danielson.  For now, I shall say no more.

• Some folks are still clearly a little crazy about it.

• Read Anita Silvey’s entry on the book at The Children’s Book-a-Day Almanac.

While you’re at it, don’t forget that they turned it into a graphic novel:

Folks of a certain generation will recall this particular atrocity:

Personally, I have a strange affection for the movie.  I can’t bear to watch it, of course.  I just like the idea of it in theory.  Gene Wilder is always a good thing and Bob Fosse as a snake?  Dude.