USA Today info about Looney Tunes Movies-Lame Ideas and Loser CoStars

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From page 6 of USA Today from Friday Life Section
Inside Movies Column-Josh Chetwynd and Andy Seiler

Title: What's up Doc? More Looney Tunes ahead?

That's not all folks! Warner Brothers is determined to brined Looney Tunes back to the big screen. While it has been known that the studio has been developing an animated remake of the 1965 Tony Curtis-Jack Lemmon comedy "The Great Race" with such characters as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and a film starring Taz, Warner Brothers is actually casting its net much wider. Execs are simultaneously working on developing as many as 10 ideas based on the Looney Tunes franchise. (The last Tunes film was 1996's Space jam staring Michael Jordan which grossed 90.4 million)
Other Candidates:
-A live-action-animated hybrid that has Bugs and Daffy as secret agents. (The studio has floated Jackie Chan as the ideal human counterpart to the 'toons.)
-The story of Bugs, if he were human
Apparently, however, none of the scripts that have come in so far are very inspiring.
Warner Brothers, though, isn't giving up.
A features film would be a great way to keep the beloved franchise in the public eye now that the Warner Brothers retail stores are history.

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My thoughts:
None of the scripts very inspiring? Forget the scripts, none of the movie ideas seem worthwhile. I can’t believe that they can’t come up with any good concepts. The possibilities are endless but idiot politically correct corporate hacks don’t have an ounce of imagination. Space Jam demonstrated that.

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[Jon Cooke]

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A features film would be a great way to keep the beloved franchise in the public eye now that the Warner Brothers retail stores are history.

I think a nice DVD release would be an even better way to keep the beloved franchise in the public eye... :D


-Jon

[Jack]

That's not all folks! Warner Brothers is determined to brined Looney Tunes back to the big screen.
I guess they never heard of re-releasing the old shorts to theaters...

The sad thing is, no matter how bad the movie is, it will do good. People who are a die hard fan of at least one character, like Tweety, Marvin, or Taz, will watch anything, good or bad, just as long as said character is in it...




Jack:rolleyes:

[Sveven Dvorking]

As much as I like the WB cartoons, I probably wouldn't even want to watch a new movie. The characters were really meant for short cartoons, not long features. I would much rather see the classics re-released than new movie efforts.

[Matthew Hunter]

I don't understand why so many people hated "Space Jam'...the movie was a success and I happened to enjoy it. I remember seeing it twice, once with a friend and once with my dad when there was mnothing else worthwhile playing. He liked it too, and he's by no means a basketball or cartoon buff. Most of the characters were very well-used, except that horrible voice for Pepe Le Pew. I think new movie ideas are great, but whatever happened to new CARTOONS? Many of the cartoons that have come out within the last few years (the ones WB has let me SEE) are pretty good...imagine what could happen if they got a stable, active studio going that could become familiar with the characters and create new ideas? And what about "Toon Marooned"? Not a bad concept, they could raise the animation quality a bit and do that idea as a new short. What about more Taz cartoons? He's popular, and I think Taz could work in a variety of situations.What about having Taz try to escape from a zoo, or a cartoon version of that Tweety story from the comic book "Taz and his Tasty Friends"? There are lots of possiblilities that are being overlooked here. There is also nothing wrong with re-releasing the cartoons to theaters. What about a feature that showcased 2 hours or more of classic cartoons, without all that title-chopping and "linking footage'. I've read about the "All New Bugs Bunny Cartoon Reviews', they could do that again. Heck, clip the commercials, stick 3 more cartoons in, and the CN LT show any given Saturday would be a good theater package.
-Matthew

[Jack]

Oh I think they should re-release the cartoons in movie length packages too, assorted cartoons from almost all eras would be best (IMO). I've been thinking of starting a "what cartoons would you want to see in a theater?" thread.

I liked Space Jam, looking for minor character in the audience was fun, I didn't like Lola Bunny, though. I'll judge the new movies when I see them, but I already know those movies will do well, even if they are bad.

New cartoons could be made, they certainly wouldn't feel like the old ones, but that can be good. I wouldn't have minded if Ford and Lennon had made more cartoons with a higher budget. Those two put new life into the (I'll bet you're sick of me saying this...) very tired Bugs-Daffy rivalry, and they put Daffy into two solo cartoons, something not done in who knows how long. They made the best of the lot, even though the quality was sorta low.

The stuff I've seen from Chuck Jones Film Productions ranges from so-so to really really really bad (I think "From Hare to Eternity" is the worst Bugs Bunny cartoon ever made.) I'd like to see "Chariots of Fur," I hear it's pretty good, some call it one of the best Road Runner cartoons. I also hear "Another Froggy Evening" is really good.


Jack:D

[Sveven Dvorking]

Originally posted by Jack
they put Daffy into two solo cartoons, something not done in who knows how long.
It was also a very long time the last one-shot. Nowadays AOL-TW feels they can only make money off of character shorts. During the classic era, many cartoons were made without common characters.


Originally posted by Jack
I'd like to see "Chariots of Fur," I hear it's pretty good
It is available from http://www.megalink.net/~cooke/looney/amazon3.html I hope Jon isn't upset that I posted that.
I think it's good, but I am a Roadrunner-Coyote fan. It includes a funny Surgeon General spoof.

[Mibbitmaker]

If they were to release classic shorts(title cards and all) in movie-length packages, I'd love to see them aranged by decade. One package all from '30s, one 40s(my favorite, of course), '50s, maybe even '60s. They could have period-styled bumpers(not the linking material of the movies made from old footage!) in the beginning and end. Kind of like the covers of the Archie reprint comic book collections. All b&w cartoons(there MUST be b&w!) in original form.

Would be nice.

[Sveven Dvorking]

I would like to see them released in chronological order in theaters, with a 13-cartoon package released each week, starting with the beginning. And no colorized versions