Tom and Jerry Live Action CG Movie in the Works
Great news… yet another classic cartoon is slated to become a terrible live-action/CG hybrid in the vein of Garfield and Alvin and the Chipmunks! Dan Lin, producer of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, Richard Kelly’s The Box, and Ricky Gervais’ The Side of the Truth, is developing Tom and Jerry as an “origin story” that tells how the cat and mouse meet, before they end up getting lost in Chicago and must work together to find their way home. Funny, that sounds like way more back story than I remember any Tom and Jerry episode ever having.
The beauty of the cartoon was in its simplicity… an angry cat chases a mouse in various settings and scenarios, always getting outsmarted, occasionally running into a bigger dog named Spike. The script for the movie is being written by a guy named Eric Gravning, who previously wrote a spec script called Mr. Burnout about “a small town English teacher who spirals from teacher of the year to a bitter, rude individual after a decade in the classroom”. Personally I think this is a moronic idea, but I’m sure it will do quite well regardless.
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This classic is no stranger to the sufferance of the Hollywood remake; there was that unforgiveable 1992 feature in which they had the audacity to give both characters a voice and a couple of showtunes to sing. Horrible.
Posted by sa on January 22nd, 2009Is Hollywood running out of ideas? Good grief.
Posted by Panda on July 8th, 2009they always ruin everyone’s favorite cartoon shows they ruined dragonball and speed racers,real monsters,the rugrats,catdog and the legend of zelda will be next
Posted by brandon on July 27th, 2009AWWW real monsters,the rugrats,catdog,and hey arnold w ill be next i mean
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