After 34 years, Warwick Davis revisits role that made him a movie star

It was an epic adventure unlike anything moviegoers had ever seen on the big screen in the ’80s. In producer George Lucas and director Ron Howard’s 1988 dark fantasy adventure “Willow,” Nelwyn farmer-cum-aspiring sorcerer Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) grudgingly embarked on a perilous journey to protect infant empress Elora Danan from the dark sorceress Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh) that the baby was prophesied to vanquish.

Helping Willow accomplish his mission were cocky mercenary Madmartigan (Val Kilmer) and the queen’s warrior daughter Sorsha (Joanne Whalley). But 34 years after the cult classic was released, Willow (with Warwick reprising the role he first portrayed when he was …

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