Looney Tunes Reboot

[Bill K.]

from Rotten Tomatoes:

"Comedienne Jenny Slate is probably best known as the new member of the 2009-2010 season of Saturday Night Live who dropped the F-bomb in her first appearance (and wasn't renewed for the 2010-2011 season). Regardless of (and hopefully not because of) her R-rated past, Slate has been handed the reins to one of the most venerable and cherished kid-friendly stables of characters that anyone in Hollywood owns. Warner Bros wants to reboot the Looney Tunes characters as a live action/CGI hybrid film, and Jenny Slate has been hired to adapt the script. Looney Tunes refers, of course, to the classic WB characters that include Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepe LePew, Porky Pig, Road Runner (and Wile E. Coyote), Speedy Gonzalez, Sylvester and Tweety, Tasmanian Devil, and Yosemite Sam. This new attempt at a Looney Tunes reboot comes after another attempt at a reboot in 2003 in the form of Looney Tunes: Back in Action, which followed the 1996 hit Space Jam. There's no details yet as to what Jenny Slate's take on Looney Tunes will actually be. The reboot's producers at Warner Bros include Seth Grahame-Smith, the writer of the recent Dark Shadows movie adaptation and author of mashup books like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."

I always felt that one of the reasons Looney Tunes: Back In Action flopped was the studio's insistence on forcing the animated characters to interact with humans (the other reason was a really lousy script). Who Framed Roger Rabbit was novel (and a good story). Space Jam was watchable. But doing it just so Bugs and Daffy can interact with whatever B list celebrity Warner can talk into appearing in the film is pointless.

The Looney Tunes cast have bankable box office cred, otherwise why make the film. Why not just do a 90 minute feature with JUST THEM? I've always wanted to see the "Carrot-Blanca" short expanded to 90 minutes. And I bet it would go over a lot better than Bugs playing straight man to Will Ferrell.

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Disney just had a massive hit using the "Have our fictional characters interact with random celebs" formula in the Muppets reboot, so I can see why Warner would try and do something similar.