From darkhorizons, Latino Review reports that Robert Rodriguez ("Sin City," "Spy Kids") is tipped to be handling Warner Bros. live-action feature "The Jetsons."The storyline will be based on the popular animated Hanna-Barbera TV show, which revolved around the travails of a family in the distant future.
Meanwhile they also report that Bryan Singer's "Valkyrie", the upcoming WWII film about a German assassination attempt on Hitler, looks set to have a stellar cast of English acting veterans to star alongside Tom Cruise. Amongst them are four legends - Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry. "Little Children" star Patrick Wilson is also in discussions for the film.
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Early in my cartoon-watching career my mother told me the only cartoons she had a problem with me watching were the Flintstones and the Jetsons. I pretty much still live by that standard.
The Jetsons used to freak me out because everything, every building/mall/football field was mounted on a single column whose bottom you never saw. Except eventually they did show the ground in some episodes, I think. I didn’t watch it often because my mom said.
Why would she object to the Flintstones or Jetsons? Was it objectionable content or the fact that they just plain suck?
I think is was reason number one. The Flintstones is basically an animated Honeymooners, and while Fred F. could beat the living crap out of whiny George J. I suspect the “good housewife” characters in both shows put her off in a way that Bugs Bunny cartoon violence didn’t.
Also, while those two shows weren’t any worse than a lot of what HB was churning out in the 70’s, I think they were the only ones with that sort of home-life sitcom set-up, and the only ones that were shticky in that particular way.
The funny thing is, I remember as a kid not minding at all. I already considered those cartoons sub-par; I’d be disappointed if either of them were on next.
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