Cartoons that NEED a live-action induction!

[Angryhydralisk]

I dunno, I make this topic on the sole fact that when they made the live action Flintstones flick, it just only seemed natural a live action Jetsons would have been done. Plus I actually dug the Flintstones flick. It captured that bizarre aura of "Totally kiddie stuff but was actually catered for adults" the cartoon had.

Even as criminally horrible as expected, I would pay money to see The Jetsons. And a live-action Jabberjaw.

Ensue the masochism!

[Tadao]

I'd hate to see commercials for Jabberjaw for 3 months.

[Dimnos]

rofl. If they do make a live action Jabberjaw, I would make my kid watch it as punishment. :lol

[Guitar Woman]

NONE OF THEM >:

[executioneer]

tom goes to the mayor

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

If they made a Jabberjaw live action movie I would see it. They would need to get Jerome Lester Horwitz the 2nd to play Jabber though.

[ElPila666]

I hope that someone make the Pokemon live action movie :(

[foolfighter009]

There was a live pokemon musical but it was a long time ago.....A live action atom ant movie? I THINK NOT!!!!!!

[Phoenix Gamma]

Why would we need more of that shit?

Didn't Underdog, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Garfield, and Garfield II pretty much prove that "live action + cartoon = NO"?

[foolfighter009]

Underdog was a good movie!!!! But you got me there with garfield 1 and 2 [never saw R&B].

[Phoenix Gamma]

Underdog was a good movie!!!!

Sure. If your sense of humor is drier than sandpaper.

And it is.

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/underdog?q=underdog
The result is unfit for humankind.

[foolfighter009]

I ment good as in bringing back old cartoons......

[liquidstatik]

Why would we need more of that shit?

Didn't Underdog, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Garfield, and Garfield II pretty much prove that "live action + cartoon = NO"?

But who framed roger rabbit was a huge yes :o

[Phoenix Gamma]

Lemme rephrase: Live Action + Preexisting Cartoon Series = NO.

Roger Rabbit was about cartoons and the real world colliding. They didn't take a beloved franchise and make it "real" (Garfield), they took new characters, and threw them into the real world as-is. This thread is really about taking cartoons that already exist and making them live action.

I guess if I had to use a metaphor, Garfield and Underdog were a Chemical Mixture, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit would be a Mechanical Mixture (yay science!)

And yes, Who Framed Roger Rabbit was amazing. One of my textbooks from last semester was written by one of the leading animators from the film, and it's great.

[liquidstatik]

I GOTCHA, I GOTCHA. the way you said live action + cartoon CONFUSED ME! D:

[ElPila666]

Dude when this gonna came out?, Silverhawks were so awesome, i hope they make a movie about it with johnny deep on it :)

http://i36.tinypic.com/12516xz.jpg

[Tadao]

Hahaha I remember that cartoon. It was pretty cool.

[MetalMilitia]

This thread needs a live-action induction.

[Neen]

Dude when this gonna came out?, Silverhawks were so awesome, i hope they make a movie about it with johnny deep on it :)

http://i36.tinypic.com/12516xz.jpg

I hope those are belt buckles.:x

[captain516]

Futurama, maybe?

[MetalMilitia]

Ghostbusters - The Animated Series

[McClain]

FAMILY CIRCUS LOL

[Krythor]

You're right. White trash isn't funny.

[captain516]

I hope those are belt buckles.:x


Wait a second. "Falcones"? Don't the Spanish have a word for hawk?

[pac-man]

Looks like an H to me.

[BLEU]

How has no one said Thundercats?! >:

[Nick]

Because they are already making a live action Thundercats movie?

[BLEU]

DON'T TOY WITH MY EMOTIONS, NICK.

[Nick]

Comes out 2010.

[ZeldaQueen]

Right. They've also got a Voltron movie planned (apparently the Transformers movie got interest in it up).

Futurama, maybe?

I would love that.

Btw, I saw R&B and I didn't think it was too bad. Certainly not as bad as Garfield. To be fair, Garfield doesn't really have much movie material in it. It's basically Jon trying to get the vet to date him and Garfield alternately being rude or eating and sleeping.

I know it's very stupid, but I'd actually like a live-action Toxic Crusaders movie. The cartoon was so cheesy and bad it's hilarious. I believe it did have a movie planned, but it fell through.

And I would also like to see a Street Sharks movie.

[BLEU]

Comes out 2010.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117966320.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Studio has optioned a script by tyro scribe Paul Sopocy to turn the popular 1980s animated series and toy line into a CGI-animated feature.


WHAT PART OF "LIVE-ACTION" DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND, NICHOLAS?

[Tadao]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/06/06/warner-bros-to-make-live-action-thundercats-movie/

Conflicting articles.

[liquidstatik]

..

[BLEU]

THIS IS THE COOLEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o314/BloodyThesis/liono1.jpg

...seriously though, as much as I want to believe that other article, my money's on it being CGI. That's just how kids movies work today. I don't even think a Thundercats movie would be good! I just want it for the nostalgia factor; my brother and me used to watch it every afternoon after school on Toonami. Shit was so awesome.

[Krythor]

I know it's very stupid, but I'd actually like a live-action Toxic Crusaders movie. The cartoon was so cheesy and bad it's hilarious.

You do know that Toxic Crusaders was the cartoon version of the gorey B-movie series Toxic Avenger right?

[ZeldaQueen]

You do know that Toxic Crusaders was the cartoon version of the gorey B-movie series Toxic Avenger right?

Yes, I know it. It's not very much like the source material though, so it's not like a live-action would be a remake.

[Bahmo]

It's quite difficult to make a live action movie similar to the source material many times, but I do take a more liberal stance towards many of the resultant movies. Dudley Do-Right was poor, and I haven't seen Underdog, but Rocky and Bullwinkle was alright, if not very impressive. George of the Jungle was awesome, as I said in the other thread, although I'm not prepared to tolerate the sequel or Cartoon Network's reenvisioning of the old cartoon. With something like Josie and the Pussycats, it was quite unfaithful to the source material, but the source material was dumb, and the movie actually improved on it by making a brilliant satire of the record industry. Scooby Doo actually worked quite well, partially because it was so funny to see actors do such a good immitation of the cartoon, and partially because the humor of the cartoon was based on such things as Abbot and Costello, which was live-action to begin with.

I, for one, would pay to see Jabberjaw adapted. Or maybe not, but it would be amusing.

[ZeldaQueen]

It's quite difficult to make a live action movie similar to the source material many times, but I do take a more liberal stance towards many of the resultant movies. Dudley Do-Right was poor, and I haven't seen Underdog, but Rocky and Bullwinkle was alright, if not very impressive. George of the Jungle was awesome, as I said in the other thread, although I'm not prepared to tolerate the sequel or Cartoon Network's reenvisioning of the old cartoon. With something like Josie and the Pussycats, it was quite unfaithful to the source material, but the source material was dumb, and the movie actually improved on it by making a brilliant satire of the record industry. Scooby Doo actually worked quite well, partially because it was so funny to see actors do such a good immitation of the cartoon, and partially because the humor of the cartoon was based on such things as Abbot and Costello, which was live-action to begin with.

I, for one, would pay to see Jabberjaw adapted. Or maybe not, but it would be amusing.

I agree with you. Depending on what the source material is, you actually might not want a movie to be faithful to it. In the sense of Scooby Doo, the movie actually made fun of the cartoons to a certain extent (the voodoo guy commenting on how Daphne always wears the same kind of clothes, etc).

One cartoon made into live action that I liked very much was that Popeye movie that Robin Williams was in. It felt like a Popeye cartoon was actually thrown onto the screen.

[Bahmo]

On that thought, I was always skeptical of the notion of a live-action Underdog, because they'd need to reinvent a few basic principles. The original cartoon, for example, had a lot of characters who were furries. Having a large cast of anrthopomorphic animals doesn't really work in live-action.

It's different when there's just one or two anthropomorphic animals, as was the case in Scooby Doo, and would be the case in Jabberjaw, because there, a human actor can stand in there, to be digitally-altered later, and interactions between him and the cast aren't really much different from how a human would do it.

[homor]

Captain Planet.

featuring a cameo apperance from Al Gore.

[ZeldaQueen]

I think they're getting a Captain Planet movie made. Hang on *checks*

Apparently in late 2007 Ted Turner was in talks for one.

[Supafly345]

And a flash gordon remake came out in 2006 too!

[ZeldaQueen]

And a flash gordon remake came out in 2006 too!

That's a tv series, I believe. The movie remake's for 2010 (on IMDb).

[executioneer]

sam and max, freelance police >: get henson's creature shop to do it NO CGI CHARACTERS PLEASE

[pac-man]

sam and max, freelance police >: get henson's creature shop to do it NO CGI CHARACTERS PLEASE

Good call :rock

[kahljorn]

yu yu hakasho with ron perlman from city of lost children as kuwabara

[Jeff The Ninja]

I wouldnt mind seeing a Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law Short done in live action.

[Tadao]

I think they may have done one. Oh wait, not a full 15 mins though.

[Durrsomething]

Freakazoid. With Will Ferel as Freakazoid, that fat kid from Superbad as Fanboy, and Alan Rickman as The Lobe and Weena Mercator as the hopping woman

[ZeldaQueen]

Oh, I would LOVE a live-action Freakazoid movie. That series was the best! And then they cancelled it. >:

[pac-man]

No live-action for Freakazoid! It wouldn't come out like you're picturing it in your mind.

[ZeldaQueen]

Eh, maybe you're right. Most of the humor did come from it being cartoonish.

What about Biker Mice from Mars? Heck, there were plenty of little-known but pretty good TMNT-based cartoons.

[Dimnos]

yu yu hakasho with ron perlman from city of lost children as kuwabara

:lol Thats who he always reminded me of

[pac-man]

Biker Mice from Mars would be badass if they made live action and rated R.

[ZeldaQueen]

The weird oily guy would be pretty gross...