A Convergence of the Paw Print Newspaper and UPC TV
Cartoons to Movies
The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, and Alvin and the Chipmunks are just a few of the many children’s cartoons that you may have watched as a younger kid that have been turned to live action. It seems more and more that Hollywood is loosing ideas and glancing back into our past to help pay for their future. I went to see Alvin and The Chipmunks:The Squeakquel over our holiday break and saw a trailer for Marmaduke starring Owen Wilson. I remember reading the little single square Marmaduke comics in the newspaper that I believe still appear today. It got me thinking, now they’re going into one panel comic characters? What else is in the works?
A live action adaptation of The Jetsons is in the work for a 2012 release, A live action/computer-generated Smurfs Trilogy is currently in the planning stages, A Tom & Jerry origin story is being created as a feature film that is rumored to be computer-generated. Anna Farris will be starring as a Documentary film maker in a live action/CGI Yogi bear movie with Dan Aykroyd voicing Yogi and Justin Timberlake providing the voice of Boo Boo scheduled to be released December 17th of this year. The 4th Scooby-Doo movie is currently in the works with the same cast from Scooby Doo: The Mystery Begins all returning to live out the gangs first encounter with the black knight ghost. A Hong Kong Phooey film is in the making though not much has been released on the movie at all. Finally, a live action Johnny Quest film is being produced starring Zac Efron as Johnny Quest and Dwayne Johnson as his body guard, Race Bannon.
All these movies are currently seen to do pretty terrible as have most of there predecessors, like Speed Racer, Dragonball: Evolution and Josie and The Pussycats just to name a few. Although, there is the chance that they may prevail such as Scooby-Doo and The Flintstones have done.
List of Live Action Films Derived from Cartoons: (Alpha Order)
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
Alvin and The Chipmunks
Casper
Dragonball: Evolution
Dudley Do-Right
Fat Albert
The Flintstones
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Garfield
George of the Jungle
Inspector Gadget
Josie and the Pussycats
Masters of the Universe
Popeye
Richie Rich
Scooby-Doo
Speed Racer
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Transformers
Underdog
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