Bootleg (miniseries)
Encyclopedia
Bootleg was a 2002 miniseries
for children, commissioned by the BBC
and based on a book of the same name by Alex Shearer
. It was made shown as a three-part series in the UK in 2002, was then broadcast in Australia and all over the world.
The novel has been adapted in Japan in the form of manga
and 13 episode ONA
series under the title .
The film climaxes in a huge revolution where people take to the streets. They demand that chocolate is brought back, and the government is overthrown.
The way in which the revolution is triggered, by a group seizing a "terrorist-proof" broadcasting studio to broadcast a message of resistance, has a remarkable resemblance to V's broadcast in the graphic novel V for Vendetta
(1982–1988).
and is published by Macmillan Children's Books on 4 July 2003.
was made into a three-part series and was first broadcast in the United Kingdom
and later in Australia
.
It has won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Award for Best Children's Drama with the screenplay was written by Paul Smith
.
The TV series adaptation features British actors Martin Jarvis, Steven Geller
and Gemma Jones
.
, Aiji Yamakawa. It was serialized in Shueisha
's shōjo
monthly manga magazine
, Bessatsu Margaret
from its 2nd issue and ended on the 15th issue of the magazine in year 2008.
It has only one volume and was released on October 2008.
and Toshiyuki Toyonaga
voices the main characters, Smudger Moore and Huntley Hunter respectively and Japanese singer, Maaya Sakamoto
voicing Carol Hunter.
The adaptation's theme song and insert song are sung by Kana Nishino
. The theme song's title is Make Up and the insert song is titled as Kirari and is released under SME Records
.
Source:
Miniseries
A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...
for children, commissioned by the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
and based on a book of the same name by Alex Shearer
Alex Shearer
Alex Shearer is a British novelist.Shearer was recognized as a television scenario writer at age 29 after having produced over 30 works. He was active as a writer for television, movies, theatre, and radio for 14 years, and then devoted himself to becoming a novelist.His maiden work was The...
. It was made shown as a three-part series in the UK in 2002, was then broadcast in Australia and all over the world.
The novel has been adapted in Japan in the form of manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
and 13 episode ONA
Original Net Animation
An original net animation is an anime that is directly released onto the Internet. ONAs may also have been aired on television if they were first directly released on the Internet. The name mirrors original video animation, a term that has been used in the anime industry for straight-to-video...
series under the title .
Plot
The film is about a new political party called the "Good for You" (abbreviated as GFY) which comes into power and bans chocolate. Two kids named Smudger Moore and Huntley Hunter want to get their chocolate back. They begin by selling bootleg chocolate, and go on to join an underground resistance organization.The film climaxes in a huge revolution where people take to the streets. They demand that chocolate is brought back, and the government is overthrown.
The way in which the revolution is triggered, by a group seizing a "terrorist-proof" broadcasting studio to broadcast a message of resistance, has a remarkable resemblance to V's broadcast in the graphic novel V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s to about the 1990s. A mysterious masked revolutionary who calls himself "V" works to destroy the totalitarian government,...
(1982–1988).
Book
Bootleg was first published as a book written by Alex ShearerAlex Shearer
Alex Shearer is a British novelist.Shearer was recognized as a television scenario writer at age 29 after having produced over 30 works. He was active as a writer for television, movies, theatre, and radio for 14 years, and then devoted himself to becoming a novelist.His maiden work was The...
and is published by Macmillan Children's Books on 4 July 2003.
TV series
The adaptation, commissioned by BBCBBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
was made into a three-part series and was first broadcast in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and later in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
It has won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.-Introduction:...
Award for Best Children's Drama with the screenplay was written by Paul Smith
Paul Smith (writer)
Paul Smith is a British television writer best known as creator of the Dawn French series Murder Most Horrid , and as co-creator of the Mel Smith series Colin's Sandwich....
.
The TV series adaptation features British actors Martin Jarvis, Steven Geller
Steven Geller
Steve Geller is an attorney and politician in Florida. He was a Democratic member of the Florida Senate, representing the 31st District from 1999 to 2008 and served as the Minority Leader during 2006-08. Previously he was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1988 through...
and Gemma Jones
Gemma Jones
Gemma Jones is an English character actress on both stage and screen.-Early life:Jones was born in London, England, the daughter of Irene and Griffith Jones, an actor. Her brother, Nicholas Jones, is also an actor...
.
Manga
The manga adaptation was done by Japanese manga artistMangaka
is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...
, Aiji Yamakawa. It was serialized in Shueisha
Shueisha
is a major publisher in Japan. The company was founded in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The following year, Shueisha became a separate, independent company. Magazines published by Shueisha include Weekly Shōnen Jump, Weekly Young Jump,...
's shōjo
Shojo
The term refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10-18. The name romanizes the Japanese 少女 , literally: "little female". Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative and graphic styles, from historical drama to science fiction — often with a strong...
monthly manga magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
, Bessatsu Margaret
Bessatsu Margaret
, or for short, is a shōjo manga magazine published monthly in Japan by Shueisha. It is targeted at girls aged roughly 12-17. It is a spinoff of the magazine Margaret.-Current:*360° Material - Touko Minami*Acanthus - Izumi Yamaguchi...
from its 2nd issue and ended on the 15th issue of the magazine in year 2008.
It has only one volume and was released on October 2008.
Anime
The anime adaptation of the manga is written by Kiyoko Yoshimura and animated by Production I.G with original character designs provided by Aiji Yamakawa. voice actor Fumie MizusawaFumie Mizusawa
is a Japanese voice actress. She is represented by Sigma Seven.Fumie also announced that she got married on April 16, 2011, in which her new husband is not even an actor...
and Toshiyuki Toyonaga
Toshiyuki Toyonaga
is a Japanese seiyū and actor.-Anime:* Ballad of a Shinigami * Capeta * Durarara!! * Fresh Pretty Cure! * Get Ride! Amdriver...
voices the main characters, Smudger Moore and Huntley Hunter respectively and Japanese singer, Maaya Sakamoto
Maaya Sakamoto
is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actress, and voice actress. She made her debut as a voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in the anime series Little Twins, but is more well known for her role as Hitomi Kanzaki in the hit anime series The Vision of Escaflowne...
voicing Carol Hunter.
The adaptation's theme song and insert song are sung by Kana Nishino
Kana Nishino
is a J-Pop singer and lyricist signed with SME Records' Newcome Inc. She debuted on February 20, 2008, with the single "I". CNN said that she was the favorite singer of teenage girls in Shibuya, Tokyo.- Life and career :...
. The theme song's title is Make Up and the insert song is titled as Kirari and is released under SME Records
Sony Music Entertainment Japan
is Sony's music arm in Japan. SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Corporation and independent from the United States-based Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry....
.
Cast
- Smudger Moore – Fumie MizusawaFumie Mizusawais a Japanese voice actress. She is represented by Sigma Seven.Fumie also announced that she got married on April 16, 2011, in which her new husband is not even an actor...
- Huntley Hunter - Toshiyuki ToyonagaToshiyuki Toyonagais a Japanese seiyū and actor.-Anime:* Ballad of a Shinigami * Capeta * Durarara!! * Fresh Pretty Cure! * Get Ride! Amdriver...
- Louise Bubby - Mikako TakahashiMikako Takahashiis a seiyū and J-pop singer born May 29, 1980 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Under the alias Mikako Hyatt, she forms one half of the Excel Saga seiyū duo The Excel Girls . She is employed by I'm Enterprise...
- Director of Headquarters - Katsuyuki KonishiKatsuyuki Konishiis a Japanese voice actor from Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture. He is currently affiliated with Ken Production. His debut role was Volfogg/Big Volfogg in GaoGaiGar....
- Ron Moore - Keiji FujiwaraKeiji Fujiwarais a Japanese voice actor from the Tokyo Metropolitan area who is affiliated with Air Agengy.His best known projects include Crayon Shin-chan as Hiroshi Nohara, Eureka Seven as Holland, Fullmetal Alchemist as Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes, Zoids: Chaotic Century as Irvine, Final Fantasy VII Advent...
- Joe Crawley - Kenjirō TsudaKenjiro Tsudais a Japanese voice actor and actor from Osaka Prefecture. He works at Stardust Promotion as an actor and Mediarte Entertainment Works as a seiyu.-Anime:*Air *Air Gear *Ashita no Nadja...
- Carol Hunter - Maaya SakamotoMaaya Sakamotois a Japanese singer-songwriter, actress, and voice actress. She made her debut as a voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in the anime series Little Twins, but is more well known for her role as Hitomi Kanzaki in the hit anime series The Vision of Escaflowne...
- Kylie Moore - Rie NakagawaRie Nakagawais a Japanese actress and voice actress.-TV Anime:*Ballad of a Shinigami *Bleach *Full Moon o Sagashite *Ginga Densetsu Weed *Gunslinger Girl *Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari...
- John Blades - Tatsuhisa SuzukiTatsuhisa Suzukiis a male Japanese voice actor and singer from Okazaki, Aichi, Japan, though was born in Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan. He is affiliated with I'm Enterprise and Lantis. He is a graduate from Japan Narration and Acting School...
Source:
Other references
- Shearer, Alex. Bootleg. Macmillan Children's Books, July 2003. (ISBN 978-0330415620)