Warner Bros. Rebooting The Looney Tunes - Bugs, Daffy and the Gang
I grew up watching the classically historic Looney Tunes cartoons. I still watch them to this day on DVD, they are absolutely hilarious! There is a great mix of humor that both kids and adults love. Warner Bros. is going to attempt to reboot the cartoon series yet again. They will bring back fan favorites such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the rest of the gang. They tried rebooting these characters once before, it was called The Loonatics Unleashed and the show sucked. I don't think it lasted two years.
Will this new attempt at bring the Looney Toons back to life have the same fate? I hope not, it would be great to see some decent new Bug Bunny cartoons. I don't think these new cartoons will ever live up to the original, but Warner Bros. seems to have taken some steps to make these new shows actually watchable.
The new series will be called The Looney Tunes Show. There will be 26 half hour episodes that will be shown on Cartoon Network in the fall. The show will star Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as odd-couple roommates in a contemporary cul-de-sac. Yosemite Sam, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Marvin the Martian and Porky Pig are their neighbors.
On top of the TV series we are going to see the return of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner as they try to kill each other on the big screen in a series of 3D short films that are being developed. The first of these short films will play with Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, so I won't be seeing you there.
In a interview with NYtimes president of WB TV Peter Roth said,
We talked at great length about whether we were audacious enough to take on such iconic treasures. It’s both costly and risky, but I think an extraordinary opportunity. We want to reinvigorate the brand with the best possible execution — high-quality, high-end state of the art.
Vice president of creative affairs at Warner Brothers Animation Sam Register then talks about what they did to reboot the series. Claiming the new series is the same as what made the original characters stars in the 1940s. Bugs, Daffy, Porky and crew for the first time in years will look and behave in a manner that is familiar to adults who grew up on the cartoons.
The minute you start drawing Bugs Bunny exactly as he was drawn in 1949, you expect the same animation and the voice to be exactly the same. That’s obviously not possible, so you pull the best stuff from the characters and do something slightly new with it.
And here is what the new character designs will look like:
Not bad. It's more modern, but what it really comes down to, is will these characters make us laugh like the original Looney Tunes characters did? I guess we'll find out soon enough.