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Hollywood Flashback: James Cromwell Reflects on 'Babe' 25 Years Later

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Like its title character, Babe, released a quarter-century ago, is the story of an underestimated little thing that went on to stupendous achievements.

It began as the 1983 Dick King-Smith children's book The Sheep-Pig, about an orphaned piglet who demonstrates a knack for herding sheep.

In 1986, director George Miller (Mad Max) was on a flight from Sydney to London when a woman next to him laughed as she read the book.

Miller immediately began negotiating with King-Smith for the rights — a process that took nearly a decade, with one sticking point being Miller's determination to shoot in his native Australia.

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