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Cautiously Optimistic

That’s Not All, Folks – Warner Bros. Is Making A New Looney Tunes Movie

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:10 am, September 20th, 2012


Some might call it a reboot but we’re of the mind Looney Tunes never went away, so we’ll refer to this as a return to stardom. Warner Bros. has made a deal for a new Looney Tunes movie with Harry Potter producer David Heyman onboard and former SNL cast member/the creator and voice of Marcel the Shell, Jenny Slate, writing the script. I’m pretty sure this is going to be awesome. 

You could liken it to the comeback of The Muppets last year since Bugs Bunny and all his pals haven’t really been front and center for a while. The last we heard or saw of them was in 2003′s Looney Tunes: Back in Action, but this new project has a good team behind it which leads me to think it will be something special.

The Hollywood Reporter says it will be a hybrid live-action/CG film but that details of Slate’s script are being kept quiet. If you don’t remember, or have yet to see Marcel the Shell, do yourself a favor and watch this and then watch this.

“David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith of KatzSmith, the latter of whom penned the script to Warners’ Dark Shadows, are on board to produce along with Harry Potter producer David Heyman and his Heyday Films president Jeffrey Clifford,” writes THR. “Slate has appeared in various comedic capacities on VH1 and Late Night With Jimmy Fallonand was a castmember on Saturday Night Live for the 2009-10 season. She also voiced characters in Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked.”

I don’t know about you but I am 100% for this happening. Bugs, Daffy, Wile E. Coyote and the rest of the gang are timeless. I’m crossing my fingers for a Marcel cameo.

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

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  • http://twitter.com/apizzo Anthony Pizzo

    Hmm… I’m iffy about the way the Looney Tunes characters look when rendered in CGI, based on those handful of theatrical shorts they released. Maybe it’s just me and I’ll eventually get used to it, but I think they look really unnatural outside of two dimensions.

    I hope the movie turns out well, and I think having a writer who came up on a sketch is a good move. If they can actually build a movie around a whole bunch of sketches I think that would be great.

  • http://twitter.com/TheNerdSignal The Nerd Signal

    Oh, if this is anything like the Looney Tunes Show that’s on Cartoon Network now, I will be so very happy. You wouldn’t think a Looney Tunes sitcom would be a good idea, but it’s unquestionably one of the funniest things on TV.

  • http://twitter.com/SirLordJ Jeff

    I recently watched Space Jam and Back in Action, being better than those live action outings shouldn’t be too hard. Let’s just hope they remember it’s about the Looney Toons and not the actors.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001447827800 Idle Primate

    I fee the same way about the cgi Looney tunes. They are timeless and I think they would rake more money from adults with classic look and animation

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