New George of the Jungle show?

[Drtooth]

www.studiobproductions.com

I was thumbing through the September copy of Animation magazine when I saw a blurb about this production company, and George of the Jungle was listed as new projects. From the discription it seems pretty good...

Firstly, it's about time a new Jay Ward animation project has surfaced. After the dual failures of Dudley Do-Right and Bullwinkle the movie, I guess they realize there may be life in these classic characters.

Secondly, being a huge Jay Ward fan, I've been tinkering about ideas for a new Bullwinkle series, and hoping to one day contact Ward's family to get feedback. MAinly as an internet cartoon or something. I wish I thought of that first.

Thirdly, classic shows are invaritabley better than the newer ones, if for anything else, nostalgic purposes. I really hope by "Updated" they don't prostitute the thing to work for lame brained kids. Keeping the show just as sharp as the Ward team did.

Fourthly.. I hope this will air, if made, in the US.

[DrSpengler]

In a perfect world, newer animated shows based on previous properties would have the sharpness of writing quality as the originals but with the treat of modern, higher quality animation.

Sadly, "The Real Adventures of Jonny Quests" are few and far-between. We usually wind-up with crap like Speed Racer X.

George of the Jungle was always my favorite of the Jay Ward cartoons and it actually churned out a pair of decent (at best) live action films.

I'll give this a shot, if only for the theme song.

[Drtooth]

I really wish I had known about this through some sort of trade paper that they were in the early stages of making this show... mainly to try to see if I could get a shot at writing it.

Most of the important people are dead, Paul Frees, Bill Scott, and I don't know if any of the original writers are still around. Hopefully June Foray will come back as the voice of Ursula.... Keith Scott did a damn good job with the character's voices for the movies (he was the narrator for the first George film, and ALL the male cartoon voices for the Bullwinkle movie), and I heard he does a lot of work for Theme park based Bullwinkle attratcions (BTW, he is NO relation to Bill Scott... it's just a coincidence). Corey Burton also would be a good candidate.... as I said back in the Gummi Bears DVD thread, he took over the voice of Gruffi after Bill passed on. He also did the voice of Snidley Whiplash... but then again, no Hans Conried characters appeared on George of the Jungle.

I also like the character designs didn't stray too far from the original designs. Usually they some how tweak or reinvent the appearance.

As for the films, I liked George 1 and 2 (it made fun of Disney not being able to afford Brendan Fraisier. Bullwinkle was enjoyable to an extent (the girl agent ruined the film), but Dudley Do-Right wasn't that good... it was completely off. Snidley was okay.

One other thing... George is the only character I've seen... so does it mean we'll get new Super Chicken and Tom Slick cartoons too? (hoping more for Super Chicken than Tom Slick)

[DrSpengler]

Now Super Chicken I liked. I think the only one of those shows I didn't enjoy was Roger Ramjet, mostly due to all the text screens in place of actual animation. I mean, I know those shows weren't animated particularly well, but Roger Ramjet was just pushing the limit on that.

June Foray returning as Ursula would be great. I have the utmost respect for that woman, but it pains me to say, she isn't getting any younger. With all the voice actors dying in rapid succession recently I just started thinking about how old Ms. Foray really is and it kinda worries me.

There's also the possibility that the casting directors might choose a "sexier" voice for Ursula rather than go with tradition.

[Drtooth]

Now Super Chicken I liked. I think the only one of those shows I didn't enjoy was Roger Ramjet, mostly due to all the text screens in place of actual animation. I mean, I know those shows weren't animated particularly well, but Roger Ramjet was just pushing the limit on that.

Jay didn't have anything to do with Roger Ramjet.... however, Bill Scott did like it.

[DrSpengler]

Jay didn't have anything to do with Roger Ramjet.... however, Bill Scott did like it.

Ah, okay. I guess I just got confused cuz they had similar production values and animation-style.