From SHH, Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter, who have the video game-based Hitman opening on October 12 from Fox, will produce a live-action adaptation of popular 1960s animated TV series Jonny Quest at Warner Bros. Pictures, with Dan Mazeau writing the script.
The Hanna-Barbera series revolved around a young boy who travels the world with his scientist father, adopted brother from India, Bandit the bulldog, and a government agent assigned to protect them as they go on their adventures investigating scientific mysteries.
The show, which is owned by Warner Bros. Animation, aired during primetime on ABC in 1964, lasting only one season. It was updated in the late '80s and '90s as "The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest" on the Cartoon Network. Property's also been spun off as a comic book from DC.
Askarieh, a longtime fan of the series, is hoping to turn the property into a family-friendly adventure franchise.
5 comments:
It just never ends does it? Alvin & the Chipmunks, Speed Racer, Underdog and now Jonny Quest!? What's next? Live action Snork trilogy? Care Bears meet Strawberry Shortcake? The return of Mary Worth?
I'd watch The Return of Mary Worth!
There's a pretty cool Jonny Quest stop motion animation short on Boomerang that I have seen a couple of times.
But that is about all the interest I can muster...do you think it will still ring of homosexual innuendo?
God I hope so. What's Johnny Quest without the gay?
The first episode of Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law features a custody battle for Johnny and Hadji between Dr. Quest and Race Bannon. Good stuff, especially when Dr. Quest tries to throw a baseball.
OK, Dan Mazeau was a classmate of mine at UCLA, and he left UCLA without graduating to just be a big Hollywood writer.
He majored in Physics at Berkeley and he's cute as hell. Once he started flirting with me at a bar, but he's 11 years younger than me.
Then he came to my Halloween party and fell in love with a girl dressed as a diner waitress. They're still together and Dan is a huge success.
How would I know I would get back together with Octo? Why did I pass up my shot at a fling with Dan Mazeau while I had the chance? Would any of his successful writer mojo have rubbed off on me?
Sigh.
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