Bedrock! (Adult Flintstones Animation From Elizabeth Banks)

[ZariusTwo]

Yabba-Dabbo-Doo! Elizabeth Banks’ Flintstones sequel series Bedrock has landed at Fox.

The network is developing the primetime animated adult comedy series with the Charlie Angels and Hunger Games star set to voice Pebbles Flintstone in addition to producing.

Banks has been developing a Flintstones project for a couple of years with Warner Bros. Animation as part of her overall deal with the studio via her Brownstone Productions.

It comes ten years after Seth MacFarlane developed a reboot of The Flintstones at Fox although it did not go forward.

Bedrock will follow the Flintstone family two decades after the original, with Fred on the brink of retirement and 20-something Pebbles embarking on her own career. As the Stone Age gives way to a shiny and enlightened new Bronze Age, the residents of Bedrock will find this evolution harder than a swing from Bamm-Bamm’s club.

It will be interesting to see where Banks’ Pebbles is in her life. In The Flintstones canon, as seen in ABC’s 1993 made-for-television animated movie, Pebbles, voices by Megan Mullally, works for an advertising agency, marries Bamm-Bamm and ends up moving to Hollyrock, a fictional version of Hollywood.

The pilot script is being written by Lindsay Kerns, who has written Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous and DC Super Hero Girls.

The original series, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, ran for six seasons on ABC and was the first animated series to air in primetime. Fox’s AVOD service Tubi has acquired the rights to all 166 episodes of the show and will launch it on May 1, coming on the back of its recent 60th anniversary.

Bedrock will be co-produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Fox Entertainment. Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman will executive produce through Brownstone Productions, with Brownstone’s Dannah Shinder and Lindsay Kerns serving as co-exec producers.

“Long before the Simpsons and Springfield, the Griffins and Quahog or even when the Belchers started serving burgers on Ocean Avenue, there were the Flintstones and Bedrock,” said Michael Thorn, President, Entertainment, Fox Entertainment. “Their imprint on the animation universe is undeniable and the idea of adapting it for today’s audience is a challenge we here at Fox are very much looking forward to taking on with Warner Bros., Elizabeth and Lindsay. No pressure whatsoever, really.”


“The Flintstones are the first family of primetime animation,” added Peter Girardi, Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming at Warner Bros. Animation. “Elizabeth and Lindsay have a brilliant take on these characters, and Fox and Brownstone are the perfect partners to bring them back to primetime. This is going to rock, sorry.”

https://deadline.com/2021/04/the-flintstones-adult-animated-comedy-sequel-series-bedrock-from-elizabeth-banks-in-works-at-fox-1234744878/

[Leo656]

Wow. :lol:

Do Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm still have their stupid band, at least? :lol:

[CyberCubed]

We've already seen adult Pebbles and Bam-Bam before, like they made two different cartoons and movies about it already. This isn't new.

[oldmanwinters]

We've already seen adult Pebbles and Bam-Bam before, like they made two different cartoons and movies about it already. This isn't new.

It's true. Funny how H-B was cool with aging their characters throughout the 1970s-1980s (then turning them all into kids during the 90s), then went about 20 years with status-quo, and now you're considered a bold creative type when you try to re-invent the wheel with the franchises.

[sdp]

The idea of dinosaurs with humans is so old and outdated, it makes no sense. The only way I can see flintstones revival that doesn't seem like a reminder of the past is that it could work as an adult parody. Making fun of the fact of the concept of the flintstones is more outdated than anything else. But sadly I don't think that's what's going to happen.

Cavemen and dinosaurs have no right to be on tv anymore unless it's an explicit parody of how silly people used to be in the past. We've evolved too much to go back to that.

[oldmanwinters]

The idea of dinosaurs with humans is so old and outdated, it makes no sense. The only way I can see flintstones revival that doesn't seem like a reminder of the past is that it could work as an adult parody. Making fun of the fact of the concept of the flintstones is more outdated than anything else. But sadly I don't think that's what's going to happen.

Cavemen and dinosaurs have no right to be on tv anymore unless it's an explicit parody of how silly people used to be in the past. We've evolved too much to go back to that.

https://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/why-flintstones-takes-place-in-post-apocalyptic-future/

[CyberCubed]

I take Flintstones lore very seriously, this better be in continuity with the old shows. I hope they don't pull a Simpsons where old stuff is retconned for no reason.

Didn't Pebbles work move to get a job in Hollyrock last time we saw her?

[sdp]

I take Flintstones lore very seriously, this better be in continuity with the old shows. I hope they don't pull a Simpsons where old stuff is retconned for no reason.

Didn't Pebbles work move to get a job in Hollyrock last time we saw her?

I'm surprised they mantained continuity from the original show all the way to the 90s or whenever that last special came out.

[Allio]

The idea of dinosaurs with humans is so old and outdated, it makes no sense. The only way I can see flintstones revival that doesn't seem like a reminder of the past is that it could work as an adult parody. Making fun of the fact of the concept of the flintstones is more outdated than anything else. But sadly I don't think that's what's going to happen.

Cavemen and dinosaurs have no right to be on tv anymore unless it's an explicit parody of how silly people used to be in the past. We've evolved too much to go back to that.

Wow, I think I just got an aneurysm just reading this. This is like Papembrook take.

[CyberCubed]

I'm surprised they mantained continuity from the original show all the way to the 90s or whenever that last special came out.

Yeah but you can't count Flintstone kids, since they have Dino in that as kids and in the original series they don't get Dino until adults. Also in the original series Fred/Barney don't meet Wilma/Betty till they're teens/young adults working as meter maids if I remember right, but of course Flintstone kids has them all together as kids.

I wanted to marathon all 166 episodes of Flintstones and all the movies for awhile now, maybe I'll do it soon. I don't know if it's uploaded legally anywhere but it's easy to find on all those cartoon websites.

[sdp]

Yeah but you can't count Flintstone kids, since they have Dino in that as kids and in the original series they don't get Dino until adults. Also in the original series Fred/Barney don't meet Wilma/Betty till they're teens/young adults working as meter maids if I remember right, but of course Flintstone kids has them all together as kids.

I wanted to marathon all 166 episodes of Flintstones and all the movies for awhile now, maybe I'll do it soon. I don't know if it's uploaded legally anywhere but it's easy to find on all those cartoon websites.

It's also a life goal of mine to eventually marathon everything and write up a complex timeline fixing any and all continuity errors.

Wow, I think I just got an aneurysm just reading this. This is like Papembrook take.

:lol:

[Wildcat]

I was able guess something else way before it’s announced (first the mini marshmallow man).

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=319464&highlight=flintstones

I love this idea. Just moving on to the next era of civilization really opens things up. The characters get to age and interact with a new “advanced” world without going straight to modern day or far future. Love that promo pic.

I don’t know what Seth MacFarlane had in mind but I’m guessing he was going to make it more mature. This is way better to me.

[CyberCubed]

Given it's still a Hanna-Barbera series I do not expect adult humor like Family Guy, that's probably why the Seth Macfarlane series was canceled and didn't get off the ground.

Flintstones is still majorly aimed at kids and I don't think Hanna-Barbera wants Fred to start cursing and talking about sex in every episode. I do think the show will be more adult than the original but they won't go full modern adult comedy with it. Flintstones doesn't need crude humor.

[oldmanwinters]

Given it's still a Hanna-Barbera series I do not expect adult humor like Family Guy, that's probably why the Seth Macfarlane series was canceled and didn't get off the ground.

Flintstones is still majorly aimed at kids and I don't think Hanna-Barbera wants Fred to start cursing and talking about sex in every episode. I do think the show will be more adult than the original but they won't go full modern adult comedy with it. Flintstones doesn't need crude humor.

I dunno...
https://hanna-barbera.fandom.com/wiki/The_Flintstones:_On_the_Rocks

[Jester]

Wasn't the original series intended for not just kids but all ages? I mean it was just an animated version of The Honeymooners and there are ads for cigarettes on it for crying out loud. I'm pretty sure it only really became a children's property years later.

[Wildcat]

Ya it was meant to be a general sitcom but not with crude humor. Seth MacFarlane was going to reboot it.

This being a direct continuation will probably have the same tone of the original. There might be some “adult” jokes thrown but that’s fine. I’m thinking similar to The Simpsons. Anyone can get into it.

The alcohol and cigarette ads were just more common at the time so they used them in promos. They’re funny to look back on.

[Andrew NDB]

Elizabeth Banks, "hot" off of the failed SJW Charlie's Angel's reboot... making a Flintstones series and it is all about Pebbles?

Hmm... very suspicious.

[Wildcat]

Nah. Even those Deadline comments were saying that. Which I had seen already but I just knew it. One person said they didn’t even read the article and went straight to the comments section to agree.

We’re really gonna do this to everything huh? BedWoke...I say this jokingly.

But seriously everything is labeled this now. Elizabeth Banks has done more than Charlie’s Angels and a grown up Pebbles has been used before. She was the Flintstones only kid.

[Andrew NDB]

And you know... occasionally trotting out Fred Flintstone to make for moments to laugh at how "problematic" he is, this relic of a misogynistic era or whatever. Not as big jokes, per se, but little small daggers of "woke."

I could totally see it being the pitch.

[Wildcat]

But that’s the thing. All sitcoms have moments or entire episodes were the male characters are insensitive to the female characters and by the end learn they were wrong. That’s totally a trope.

It’s just that back in the day there was no term like Woke.

The original Flintstones did this. Fred and Barney trying to get out of trouble with Wilma and Betty for their antics or skipping out on them.

[Andrew NDB]

But that’s the thing. All sitcoms have moments or entire episodes were the male characters are insensitive to the female characters and by the end learn they were wrong. That’s totally a trope.

It’s just that back in the day there was no term like Woke.

The original Flintstones did this. Fred and Barney trying to get out of trouble with Wilma and Betty for their antics or skipping out on them.

The big difference is then it was done for simple quick funny haha stuff, and even then the female characters (or whoever) would similarly get lampooned by the same token. Now there is an actual, full-on mainstream agenda behind it. Like, projects existing for no other reason.

[Wildcat]

Ya it probably carries more of a meaning now. To set a good example. Even this is not a new though. Stuff that’s way more recent has been doing it.

The Simpsons has a lot of episodes where Homer messes up and has to prove to Marge he’s sorry. Not just for laughs. Serious ones. They’ve done it since the 90s.

I’m sure Bedrock! will have moments like this or make fun of Fred for being old fashioned but I think it’ll be more about the advancements and how they adapted. It’s still a comedy.

Of course they’ll include some real life similarities and metaphors. Everything does.

[CyberCubed]

The original series aired in the 60's so social norms from back then are obviously not the same as they are now. A lot of the things Fred did back then would be considered sexist now. He would also be considered a bully/abuser for the times he slammed his fist down on Barney's skull. He also MANSPLAINS to Wilma several times in the original series. I don't care about any of this stuff but you know if people today went back and watched the original they'd be complaining everywhere online. :lol:

Also I vaguely remember Fred/Barney drinking alcohol at times in mugs at the lounge meetings. Maybe I'm remembering wrong but that's what Simpsons based that one episode on.

[oldmanwinters]

Seems like the obvious choice would be to take inspiration from the recent DC comics series:
https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/22/15000062/flintstones-comic-interview-russell-pugh

Didn't run very long but the people who read it found it interesting.

[sdp]

Kids for over 20 years now only know pebbles and bambam as the mascots of the cereal, they don't know who the flintstones are. Dinosaurs with cavemen in media is ancient history, similar to having a fat black woman in the kitchen. You're only going to see boomers complaining about it that it's not like that anymore. We got rid of that stereotype and it should never return. EVER.

Luckily I think they indeed see the flintstones as an outdated trope and will only use the concept for ***** and giggles over how stupid the concept is. The original flintstones had a continuity decades long and achieved a lot, anyone wanting more flintstones has more than enough content to check out. This only works as a parody of the past and how silly we portrayed dinosaurs in media.


I wanted to marathon all 166 episodes of Flintstones and all the movies for awhile now, maybe I'll do it soon..
You have to fully commit to flintstones continuity, don't forget you need to watch everything with the Jetsons since they share the timeline.
Also captain caveman had his own show when he was revived in the present (he was alive in the flintstones kid era), now captain caveman might be in continuity with Scooby-Doo which further complicates things as you'd need to watch all of that.

Laff-a-lympics are non-canon so we're good there. They've also appeared in many other HB shows but they seem to just be non-canon cameos or gags just to be played for laughs and not to be taken seriously. But depending on your views, because we can easily add from 3-4 more shows to your marathon or even most of the Hanna-Barbera library depending on how strict you want to be.

Good luck, even at 1.8 speed it should take you 2 years if we add all of that.

Elizabeth Banks, "hot" off of the failed SJW Charlie's Angel's reboot... making a Flintstones series and it is all about Pebbles?

Hmm... very suspicious.

https://i0.wp.com/www.thebelltowertimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/info-wwars.jpg?fit=650%2C365&ssl=1

[Allio]

DC’s run of Flintstone’s was fantastic. Better than it has any right to be. Jet sons was “okay”

[CyberCubed]

Will this show with adult Pebbles still be continuity with the old Pebbles and Bam Bam show from the 70's?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bWjXBn1eNTc/VHENcmc_v6I/AAAAAAAAAq8/LAJmfwCtgbA/s1600/3956936282_b0eed07166.jpg

I also wonder what Pebbles design will look like and if they keep this one. All of their friends can disappear though.

[sdp]

This is what they looked like the last time we saw them:
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/a7/0d/ea/a70dea50af3ddf71ae42cb900e743ddd--pebbles-and-bam-bam-pebbles-flintstone.jpg

[CyberCubed]

How dare they sexualize Pebbles!

[Leo656]

When I was like three and four years old the "Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm" show was on more often than the regular Flintstones show was for a while. Teela had already conditioned me to have a thing for redheads so I thought she was super hot back then. :lol: And then I'd get annoyed when they'd have regular Flintstones on.

Wonder what Banks is gonna look like with red hair?

[Allio]

Only thing I remember of adult pebbles and Bamm-Bamm was the special where they had twins.

[ZariusTwo]

Will this show with adult Pebbles still be continuity with the old Pebbles and Bam Bam show from the 70's?

If it is, they'll have to ignore the last few specials where Pebbles and Bam-Bam got married and had kids...not unless they want to trounce on that happy ending by having Pebbles as a struggling divorcee and an unfit mother who loses custody of the kids to the father:o

[Leo656]

What judge would ever grant Bamm-Bamm full custody of a kid? :lol::lol::lol: They'd have to be smokin' crack.

[IMJ]

This [The Flinstones] only works as a parody of the past and how silly we portrayed dinosaurs in media.

The liberal brain, right here folks. How silly. We. Portrayed. Dinosaurs........ Inthemedia.

So hard up on it's own bull$#!( and lost in phony crusading that it will generate a thought and sentence such as this, and without parody.

Quite literally the posterchild post of this entire mentality right here. Because... you know... modern portrayals should never diminish the status of dinosaurs or it is an anachronism.

Dinosaurs with cavemen in media is ancient history, similar to having a fat black woman in the kitchen.

The two have absolutely zero correlation. One is comedic science fiction and the other happens in real life from time to time or in SDP's use of it as an example of racist caricature. There is no correlation here in saying that science fiction use of dinosaurs with cavemen is anachronistic, & even if it was there is no argument similar to racism to be made against it in pop culture. Modern social justice right there for you folks. SDP is building a pyre on the argument that depictions of dinosaurs with cavemen in media is akin to racist caricatures of portly black females cooking.

The post I'm quoting was quite literally, without fail the greatest "Liberal Idiot of the highest order" post I have ever seen on the Technodrome forums. Ever. Bar none. "How. We. Portrayed. DINOSAURS. In the media."

[Leo656]

You gotta remember, man...
Saxon = Joke Account. :trazz:

[IMJ]

You gotta remember, man...
Saxon = Joke Account. :trazz:

Oh God I hope what you are saying is true. Because I can't tell anymore with these f'n people....

If it's true then I'm sorry for thinking he meant it. OMG I was wondering if he dropped too much MDA at one of his raves or something. I'm actually so happy at the possibility that the Dinosaur outrage was a joke.... I'm like laughing about it here at my computer.

[Leo656]

At this point it wouldn't shock me at all if sdp and Saxon from the gamefaqs boards were literally the same person.

[CyberCubed]

Heh, I regularly troll gamefaqs as well and the people there are so stupid they take anything I say completely seriously. :lol:

[Leo656]

I haven't looked at those boards in years. Are YOU Saxon?

[CyberCubed]

nope, I only post on the videogame sections for certain games.

[IMJ]

Heh, I regularly troll gamefaqs as well and the people there are so stupid they take anything I say completely seriously. :lol:

There is some degree of irony that when you capture someone in your trolling that it's an intellect-victory for you, dude. :lol: I mean... it's easy as hell to trick people when the "tricker" is living a life absorbed by that contrary to a world of people living lives where that $#!( just isn't even a consideration, you know? Doesn't make the person pulling the tricks actually... you know... smart or intelligent. lmao!

Now with that said, I'm perfectly okay with being dumb for believing SDP meant his dinosaur thing. But hey man, I just don't have a lot of faith in the people of the Technodrome.... I stopped trying to keep up with who the real nutjobs here were sometime back now :lol: I still don't think that it's so hard to believe that someone here would actually argue for Dinosaur rights or something like that. I mean dude - there was a guy here once who argued that Krang's android body had no neck and that the character did a "face turn" when he would look at someone for God's sake. HAHAHAHAHAHAA!

I knew one guy who used to send magazine subscriptions to people. Funny **** like "Field and Stream" and stuff like that. He thought it was hysterical, and often I could see people getting "Field and Stream" and not even acknowledging that anything was going on. To a - you know - normal person it would just be perceived as something you got in the mail - promotional thing or something, not that "Oh that silly JOE did it again! Heh heh". Guy laughed his ass off at his antics, but he sure as $#!( wasn't clever for it. And I've know this guy for 25 years. He's still the same fool!

[CyberCubed]

gamefaqs is basically a staple of the "old internet" from the late 90's and early 2000's where trolling is *expected.* Like there's no reason to post on gamefaqs otherwise, it's basically known for being a place where everyone acts like 13-14 year old middle school kids again and tries to "one-up" each other.

Gamefaqs is where I can feel like I'm 13 years old again and have a wild time.

[IMJ]

Like there's no reason to post on gamefaqs otherwise

I actually, just now laughed out loud at this, man.... :lol::lol:

[ZariusTwo]

FOX have a placement for it on their site with a description:

BEDROCK, a primetime animated adult comedy series continuing the story of everyone’s favorite modern Stone Age family, the Flintstones. BEDROCK catches up with the Flintstone family two decades after the original, with Fred on the brink of retirement and 20-something Pebbles embarking on her own career. As the Stone Age gives way to a shiny and enlightened new Bronze Age, the residents of Bedrock will find this evolution harder than a swing from Bamm-Bamm’s club.


https://www.fox.com/bedrock/

[IMJ]

FOX have a placement for it on their site with a description:




https://www.fox.com/bedrock/

You know all things considered, if they make a show like Family Guy or American Dad out of the Flinstones, it might actually be pretty entertaining.

[CyberCubed]

That description makes it sound like it's in continuity with all the old shows. Thank god, I thought they would do the Scooby Doo route where each new show is almost a soft-reboot of what came before.

If this takes place 20 years after the original, I guess Fred would be around 50? I assume Fred/Wilma were around 30 in the original shows, right?

[sdp]

Flintstones keeping up with continuity, that's amazing. Plot actually sounds interesting, I can see Fred acting like a boomer afraid of change. Definitely potential. Jetsons reboot when?

crazy last time we saw either of those franchises were because the WWE paid to get some cartoons done in the 2010's.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81t3LeZfGiL._SL1428_.jpg

That description makes it sound like it's in continuity with all the old shows. Thank god, I thought they would do the Scooby Doo route where each new show is almost a soft-reboot of what came before.


Scooby-doo continues to this day on the same continuity, in fact the latest movies retcon older shows/movies into being in one constant canon where they don't actually age. It's awful but it at least shows their commitment in one timeline.

[ZariusTwo]

Scooby-doo continues to this day on the same continuity

The Scooby-Doo comics have established there is a canonical multiverse though.

[ZariusTwo]

It's happening. Pilot approved.

https://deadline.com/2023/03/elizabeth-banks-flintstones-bedrock-pilot-presentation-fox-1235285122/