Thursday, May 30, 2013

Prehistoric Space Jam

As there was an animated basketball movie, now there will be ...

Wrestling!

Warner Bros and WWE Studios are tag-teaming to co-produce a Flintstones animated movie to be released in early 2015. Here, fixtures of the ’60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon including Fred and Barney will be joined by WWE staples including Vince McMagma (voiced by Vince McMahon) and such WWE superstars and divas including John Cenastone (John Cena) and CM Punkrock (CM Punk). ...

From appearances, it doesn't seem as though this will be a major theatrical event, but rather entertainment for the little silver disk and home flat-screen.

... “WWE is family-friendly entertainment, so partnering with Warner Bros on a Flintstones/WWE project was a natural extension of our Scooby Doo deal,” said Michael Luisi, President, WWE Studios. ...

3 comments:

Diablo said...

Worst
Idea
EVER

Unknown said...

Not as bad as the first sequel WB planned after the terrible Space Jam made more money than anticipated.

"Country Jam" was in development for a while. It would have featured the WB characters in a country setting with country stars, like mediocre singer garth brooks.

Tian Roberts said...

So sad.
There was a script for a more space jam style before the actual sequel which had a cute story and would have had the classic WB characters matching up with WWE personalities.
It had real good merchandising possibilities. But was shot down

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