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Raph's Girl 10-03-2008 01:45 PM

Live action Yogi Bear in the works
 
http://www.mania.com/yogi-bear-hitti...le_110283.html

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Warner Bros. has announced their plans to develop a live-action/animated Yogi Bear for the big screen, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The move comes a year after 20th Century Fox banked at the box office with their adaptation of Alvin and the Chipmunks, a film which wound up grossing $359.6 million worldwide and spawning a sequel due in theaters in March 19, 2010.

Screenwriters Joshua Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimilia are penning the screenplay. Donald De Line is producing via his De Line Pictures; Karen Rosenfelt is also producing, with Jon Berg overseeing for the studio.

Plot Concept: Yogi Bear first appeared as a supporting character in 1958 in another classic cartoon, "The Huckleberry Hound Show." In 1961, he got his own show, which has aired in reruns frequently during the past half-century. Yogi's exploits take place in Jellystone Park, where he and Boo Boo get into good-natured mischief and must elude their nemesis, Ranger Smith.

Most of the movie will be live-action, but Yogi Bear and sidekick Boo Boo will be done in CG.
Next thing ya know there'll be a live action Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, or heck Touche Turtle. Where's the Hong Kong Fuey movie they were planning on making?

Now...who'll make a good Ranger Smith? Hmmm....

Drtooth 10-03-2008 02:36 PM

Bangs head violently

Now that that's out of the way, who will be playing Yogi? Greg Burson, the recast for him since Daws Butler passed on, died a few months ago....

KROW 10-03-2008 04:17 PM

I guess this was inevitable thanks to the Scooby Doo films and the Chipmunks flick. To NOT do a Yogi film would probably seem like a travesty to those Hollywood types. However, I wouldn't mind seeing a live-action Quickdraw movie. Who doesn't want to see El Kabong swooping down in full CG glory?

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Originally Posted by Raph's Girl (Post 637986)
Now...who'll make a good Ranger Smith? Hmmm....

Will Ferrell.

Jo Dawn 10-03-2008 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by KROW (Post 638016)


Will Ferrell.

Ahh, I was gonna say him. :P ;)

J Legault 10-04-2008 02:44 AM

I knew they were gonna use that cartoon as another live action flop.

To me, Yogi Bear can't possiblily look good in live action. Even when they start to leak production photos on the web, I'll imagine Yogi looking like the Mike Myers Cat in the Hat.

I wouldn't see it unless I know for sure that the filmmakers didn't trash it like other live action cartoon films.

Off-Topic: They're seriously making another Alvin movie? The first one was really lame, I just couldn't accept the idea of the chipmunks being 1 foot tall when over the years we've known them for being 3 feet tall.

ThirdMarioBro 10-04-2008 02:48 AM

Countdown to raping of childhood in 3...2...1...

Kill me. Kill me now.

Drtooth 10-04-2008 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by J Legault (Post 638104)
Off-Topic: They're seriously making another Alvin movie? The first one was really lame, I just couldn't accept the idea of the chipmunks being 1 foot tall when over the years we've known them for being 3 feet tall.

That was the main conceptual problem with the film. I felt Alvin was a pretty good C movie... but the 2 things that spoiled it were the casting of Jqason Lee as Dave Seville (when he basically acted and looked like Earl without a mustache), and the choice to be true to the original album artwork instead of the 2 major cartoon shows.

A Yogi Bear film, with a CGI Yogi and BooBoo would work if done PROPERLY... but I can see Yogi dancing hip hop and saying slang no one has used since Clinton left office, and of course Burp, fart, poop, burp, fart fart fart fart jokes for mentally challenged 3 year olds. And a poorly cast Ranger Smith.

I wish more companies would take the Garfield Gets Real route and make a movie that's COMPLETELY CGI with voice actors, and not one of these pasted on CGI films.

Though I am in agreement about Quickdraw MacGraw! KABO-O-O-O-ONG!!!!

Raph's Girl 10-04-2008 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by J Legault (Post 638104)
Off-Topic: They're seriously making another Alvin movie? The first one was really lame, I just couldn't accept the idea of the chipmunks being 1 foot tall when over the years we've known them for being 3 feet tall.

Yeah the 2nd Chipmunks film will be introducing the Chipettes.

Cure 10-04-2008 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by J Legault (Post 638104)
I knew they were gonna use that cartoon as another live action flop.

Another "flop"? Sorry to say, but these movies are super successful. Chances are Yogi Bear will be, too. I'll be there day one.

ZariusTwo 10-04-2008 06:35 PM

Snackerdoodle?

NOOOOO

VaughnMichael 10-04-2008 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ZariusTwo (Post 638216)
Snackerdoodle?

NOOOOO

Do you mean this?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...mophious/1.jpg
If so I'll be screaming NOOOOOOOOOOOO right beside you lol:lol:

ZariusTwo 10-04-2008 06:47 PM

I certaingly didnt mean "Chemical Castration":lol:

Drtooth 10-04-2008 07:09 PM

I swear. If Yogi says "I'm gonna get Jiggy with it, Boo Boo" I'm gonna walk up to these mooks and punch them all in the jaw!

VaughnMichael 10-04-2008 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Drtooth (Post 638236)
I swear. If Yogi says "I'm gonna get Jiggy with it, Boo Boo" I'm gonna walk up to these mooks and punch them all in the jaw!

hahahahahahahahah I'll be right with ya tooth!:lol:

Wildcat 10-04-2008 10:15 PM

I know most everyone hates movies based on cartoons in Live-Action with CG characters,but Im actually a bit excited to see how this turns out.

Im not a huge Yogi fan but his cartoons are pretty good and I really enjoyed Alvin and the Chipmunks. Everyone brings up 'Garfield' when talking about how bad Live-Action/CG movies are...but the problem with 'Garfield' was NOT that it was Live-Action/CG...it was the writing that sucked.

Real world enviorments and human characters doesnt make a movie bad or good,so long as the main character still looks like his cartoon counterpart execpt with realistic fur(which was the only thing 'Garfield' got right),its the story and writing that matters...seeing our favorite cartoons in the real world is just a cool bonus.

Drtooth 10-04-2008 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Wildcat (Post 638275)
Im not a huge Yogi fan but his cartoons are pretty good and I really enjoyed Alvin and the Chipmunks. Everyone brings up 'Garfield' when talking about how bad Live-Action/CG movies are...but the problem with 'Garfield' was NOT that it was Live-Action/CG...it was the writing that sucked.

Real world enviorments and human characters doesnt make a movie bad or good,so long as the main character still looks like his cartoon counterpart execpt with realistic fur(which was the only thing 'Garfield' got right),its the story and writing that matters...seeing our favorite cartoons in the real world is just a cool bonus.

What also made it suck was arbitrarily deciding to make Garfield like a cartoon animal and Odie, Arline, Nermal, et al real animals with super imposed lips.... Oh well... the sequal was the hit of Hong Kong that year... same year they banned Spider-Man and Shrek from China....

Wildcat 10-04-2008 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Drtooth (Post 638279)
What also made it suck was arbitrarily deciding to make Garfield like a cartoon animal and Odie, Arline, Nermal, et al real animals with super imposed lips.... Oh well... the sequal was the hit of Hong Kong that year... same year they banned Spider-Man and Shrek from China....

Ya the other cartoon characters should have been cartoon-y looking too...at least Odie anyway.

Why would they ban Spiderman and Shrek?

Drtooth 10-05-2008 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Wildcat (Post 638296)
Why would they ban Spiderman and Shrek?


They were deemed too violent... by the Chinese government... Though, I'm not 100% sure if it really was the year they were banned.

Mandi-chan 10-05-2008 08:18 PM

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Warner Bros. has announced their plans to develop a live-action/animated Yogi Bear for the big screen
....why?

I mean, who would even want to watch that?

Gordo 10-05-2008 09:06 PM

I could imagine this turning out just like Alvin and the Chipmunks did. Incredibly lame, but it ends up raking in about a bajillion and two dollars.


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