excerpt from Walt's People vol 11:
Disney Historian Didier Ghez: We Haven't spoken about The Black Cauldron. Ron Miller asigned you as the producer of The Black Cauldron. Did he give you a choice when he did that?
Producer Joe Hale: No, not really, The Black Cauldron had been put in story by Woolie and he worked pretty closely with Frank and Ollie on it.
The three of them were kind of working together trying to come up with something a little different.
The wife of Don Duckwall had read The Black Cauldron series and suggested it. Don brought the books to Woolie and he liked the idea.
https://www.amazon.com/Walts-People-Talking-Disney-Artists/dp/146536840X/ref=pd_ybh_a_13?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=SY40CBEW0CEH54HMB32T
Bing Translate of of a Norwegian-Bokmal interview with Ollie Johnston:
I think we got back on the right track with Bernard and Bianca-it had a lot more heart than Aristokattene and Robin Hood. So, on two good friends (1981) we worked only in one year,
the most on the screenplay section and to establish gåsykluser and such for the characters. They did not have enough people on the production and I don't think the script was as good as it should.
Then they destroyed the Taran and the black cauldron (1985). Indeed, it was Frank and I, who persuaded the Studio to bet for the project, but the leadership at the time didn't appreciate what the film could offer,
and everything went from each other. It was horrible for it could have been just as good as snow white.
http://www.norskanimasjo...hnston_et_intervju_del_1
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