Way back in May of last year, we brought you the news about Director Robert Rodriguez acquiring the rights for Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta‘s 1983 animated film, Fire and Ice. The original film was created with rotoscoping (shooting the film in live action and then tracing it onto animation cells) and released by 20th Century Fox.

The director has now released some official concept art via EW, created by Rodriguez and his team at Quick Draw Entertainment for his planned, live-action version of Fire and Ice. Check them out below, along with a quote from Rodriguez about the project and the movie’s official synopsis.

Rodriguez said,

“I want it to look like you just stepped into one of his paintings, where you get to see his world, and how he saw people, anatomy, and composition and color, it will feel like it’s real, but not real. It’ll be his reality. He saw things differently. He painted from his imagination. He didn’t take a photograph and just paint it.”

Official Synopsis:

From his stronghold in Ice Peak, the evil Nekron sends forth a wave of deadly glaciers, forcing humanity to retreat to Fire Keep, a kingdom ruled by a generous king. When King Jarol’s daughter Teegra is kidnapped, young warrior Larn teams with the mysterious and legendary Dark Wolf, to rescue the princess and the realm from Nekron’s evil sorcery.

Fire and Ice is slated to begin production in early 2012. No release date has been set.