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-fli...ox-1234744878/

[Leo656]

Wow.

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

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

https://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/...lyptic-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]

Originally Posted by 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?

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

[Allio]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by sdp

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]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

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.

Originally Posted by Allio

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

[Wildcat]

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

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...ht=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]

Originally Posted by 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.

I dunno...
https://hanna-barbera.fandom.com/wik...:_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.