UNDERDOG- HOLLYWOOD'S NEXT RED CARPET DIVA 6-25-05
It seems like Hollywood has been reading the list of the ARTSUCKS TOP 50 GREATEST CARTOON CHARACTERS EVER for script ideas. Seems as though they are just going right down the numbers, getting the rights making live action bombs of any of these 50 they can get their hands on. I guess there is no such thing as an original script concept in Hollywood anymore, or at least that's what they are leading us to believe.
Every shitty, half-baked TV show, Cartoon, and retro-cheesy film from the seventies is all of a sudden being remade for the big screen. Yesterday's goof is today's gold, or so they hope.
This, the live action (with a few cg elements) version of Underdog is just the latest hot turd The Mouse has decided to pinch his little rodent cheeks together to produce on film. . . Didn't Garfield, George of the Jungle, Josie and the Pussy Cats, The Grinch, Bullwinkle, Scooby, Fat Albert, and Herbie teach you big wigs a lesson? And they wonder why Hollywood's Movie Theater Box Office Sales are AT AN ALL TIME LOW .
Here's a clue to the Studio heads. We (The American People) don't want to be duped into paying 10 bucks to see a movie WE HAVE ALREADY SEEN!
We (The American People) also aren't going to pay 10 bucks for a movie based on a cartoon THAT IS ON CARTOON NETWORK TWICE A DAY FOR FREE AND WE DON'T WATCH IT THERE EITHER! Trust me, if Cartoon Network has relegated a cartoon to the "After Adult Swim" time slot, or the mid-day time slot, nobody is watching it. Nobody cares about it. It is not "Movie Worthy." It is crap. Do not make a live action film about Speed Racer, I beg you.
Somebody has to rescue this industry before it's too late.
SOURCE: VARIETY
Just another day in the life of an Art Juggernaut.
-Cojo