FernGully’s Eco-Propaganda Returns

Amazon has just announced a live-action remake of FernGully: The Last Rainforest, and the producers couldn’t be more excited to bring this tale of eco-moralism to a new generation. “Our goal,” producer Jon Sheinberg declared, is “to honor a timeless classic and extend its powerful themes.” Those powerful themes, in case you’ve forgotten, are that loggers are destroyers, industry is evil, and the natural world exists in perfect harmony — that is, until humans ruin it.

For the uninitiated: FernGully follows Crysta, a fairy living in an idyllic Australian rainforest, who accidentally shrinks a logger to fairy size. He soon learns the error of his ways, but the real villain is Hexxus — a sludgy, seductive pollution demon literally summoned from the earth by a logging machine. (Industry doesn’t just damage nature in FernGully. It releases evil itself.)

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Amazon has just announced a live-action remake of FernGully: The Last Rainforest, and the producers couldn’t be more excited to bring this tale of eco-moralism to a new generation. “Our goal,” producer Jon Sheinberg declared, is “to honor a timeless classic and extend its powerful themes.” Those powerful themes, in case you’ve forgotten, are that loggers are destroyers, industry is evil, and the natural world exists in perfect harmony — that is, until humans ruin it.

For the uninitiated: FernGully follows Crysta, a fairy living in an idyllic Australian rainforest, who accidentally shrinks a logger to fairy size. He soon learns the error of his ways, but the real villain is Hexxus — a sludgy, seductive pollution demon literally summoned from the earth by a logging machine. (Industry doesn’t just damage nature in FernGully. It releases evil itself.)