Ash's Adventures of The Pagemaster is an upcoming film created by Daniel Esposito. It will appear in Odysee, Ruble, and/or archive.org in the future.
Plot[]
Pessimistic 10-year-old Richard Tyler lives life based on statistics and fears everything. His exasperated parents have tried multiple ways to build up his courage to little success. Richard is sent to buy a bag of nails for building a treehouse. However, Richard gets caught in a harsh thunderstorm and takes shelter in a library. He meets Mr. Dewey, an eccentric librarian/custodian who insists that he is in need of a special book and gives him a library card, despite Richard's protests. Searching for a phone, Richard finds a large rotunda painted with many famous literary characters. He slips on water dripping from his coat and falls over, knocking himself out. Richard awakens to find the rotunda art melting, which washes over him and the library, turning them into illustrations.
He is met by the Pagemaster, the mythical Keeper of Books and Guardian of the Written Word. Richard asks for directions to the exit, so the Pagemaster sends him through the fiction section toward the green neon exit sign. Along the way, Richard befriends three anthropomorphic books: Adventure, a swashbuckling pirate-like book; Fantasy, a sassy but caring fairy-tale book; and Horror, a fearful "Hunchbook" with a misshapen spine. The three agree to help Richard if he checks them out using his new library card. Together, the quartet encounters classic-fictional characters. They meet Dr. Jekyll who turns into Mr. Hyde, driving them to the open waters of the Land of Adventure. However, the group is separated after Moby-Dick attacks, following the whale's battle with Captain Ahab. Richard and Adventure are shipwrecked and picked up by the Hispaniola, captained by Long John Silver. The pirates go to Treasure Island, but find no treasure except for one gold coin, nearly causing a mutiny between the captain and the crew. Fantasy and Horror return and defeat the pirates. Silver attempts to convince Richard to leave with him but surrenders when Richard threatens him with a sword.
In the fantasy section, Richard sees the exit sign on the top of a mountain. However, Adventure's bumbling awakens a dormant dragon. Richard tries to fight the dragon with a sword and shield, but the dragon swallows him. Richard finds books in the dragon's stomach and uses a beanstalk from Jack and the Beanstalk to escape through the dragon's mouth. He and the books climb the beanstalk to reach the exit. They enter a large dark room where the Pagemaster awaits them. Richard accuses the Pagemaster of causing the horrors that he suffered, but the Pagemaster reveals the journey was intended to make Richard face his fears. Dr. Jekyll, Captain Ahab, Long John Silver, and the dragon reappear in a magical twister and congratulate him. The Pagemaster swoops Richard and the books into the twister, sending them back to the real world.
Richard awakens, finding Adventure, Fantasy, and Horror lying next to him as real books. Mr. Dewey finds him, and, even though the library policy only allows a person to check out two books at a time, lets him check out all three books "just this once".
Richard returns home a braver boy, sleeping in his new treehouse with his books.
Trivia[]
- Kronk Pepikrankenitz, Zhane, Korra, Mako, Bolin, Asami Sato, Mushu, Cri-Kee, Cassandra, Jean-Bob, Speed, Puffin, Jeremy the Crow, the 100 Acre Wood Rebel Alliance, Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Chomper, Ruby, Guido, Grandpa Longneck, Grandma Longneck, Skip, Mr. Thicknose, Simba, Nala, Timon, Pumbaa, SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star, Squidward Tentacles, Sandy Cheeks, Mr. Krabs, Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, The Penguins of Madagascar (Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private), King Julien, Maurice, Mort, Tarzan, Jane Porter, Professor Q. Porter, Terk, Tantor, Aladdin, Princess Jasmine, Abu, Genie, Carpet, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy Rogers, Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, Scrappy-Doo, Scooby-Dum, Toaster, Blanky, Lampy, Radio, and Kirby will guest star in this film.
- The only reason why Kronk and Zhane are in this film is because The Vultures, Jiminy Cricket, and Zazu are the only members of Daniel Esposito's Pooh's Adventures team to be in the upcoming remake version of Pooh's Adventures of The Pagemaster.
- Like both versions of LegoLand1085's film Pooh's Adventures of The Pagemaster, this is an NTSC film with NTSC bits from the Pokémon films, The Land Before Time films, The Emperor's New Groove, Kronk's New Groove, Pokemon: Mewtwo Returns, Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, the Star Wars films, The Secret of Kells, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles Forever, Frozen, Frozen Fever, Olaf's Frozen Adventure, Frozen II, The Rescuers Down Under, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, the Madagascar films, Tarzan, Tarzan & Jane, the Aladdin films, the Scooby-Doo films, and The Brave Little Toaster films.
- Slimer, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, Scooby-Doo, Fred Jones, and Horror are all voiced by Frank Welker.
- Both Tantor and Long John Silver were voiced by Jim Cummings.
- The Lion King, The Swan Princess, and The Pagemaster were all released in theaters in 1994, the same year both The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure and The Return of Jafar were first released directly on home video, The Nightmare Before Christmas was first released on home video, and the TV special Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights was broadcast on television.
- The Lion King, The Swan Princess, and The Pagemaster were first released on home video in 1995, the same year The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving was first released directly on home video and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie were released in theaters.
- The Emperor's New Groove, Kronk's New Groove, and The Pagemaster were first released on Blu-ray in 2013, the same year Madly Madagascar was released directly on DVD and Frozen was released in theaters.
- Both The Land Before Time and The Pagemaster featured music score and songs composed by the late James Horner.
- The first six Star Wars films, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, and The Pagemaster were all released by 20th Century Fox (now known as 20th Century Studios), which is now a subsidiary of Disney (the studio that made The Emperor's New Groove, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Frozen, The Rescuers Down Under, Tarzan, and Aladdin).
- Warner Bros. (which released the first three Pokémon films, the Scooby-Doo franchise, and TMNT) is the parent company of Turner Pictures (which co-produced and internationally released The Pagemaster).
- This film will be dedicated to the loving memory of Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015), who voiced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the real film and died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and James Horner (1953-2015), who composed the music score and songs for The Land Before Time and The Pagemaster and died in a plane crash.
- In this film, Littlefoot and his friends will refer to the Dragon as a flying Sharptooth.
- Yru17 originally planned to re-edit a separate Land Before Time crossover with The Pagemaster, but he retired from re-editing anymore crossovers, so Littlefoot and his friends and grandparents ended up guest starring in this film instead.