Genndy Tartakovsky’s ‘Popeye’ Movie Is Back For Another Round!
Hello
all, MadDash here and thank you for joining me-
Animation
king Genndy Tartakovsky has joined forces with King Features to bring
us the long-awaited vision for a Popeye animated
feature. This rumor is according to sources that have been revealed
to Animation
Magazine.
Known for creating Dexter’s
Laboratory & Samurai Jack, Tartakovsky also brought us the
highly nominated and award-winning hit, Hotel
Transylvania trilogy
as well as Primal
on Adult
Swim as well as having teamed up with Lucasfilm to bring us, Star
Wars: Clone Wars (CN).
News
of a Popeye film being in the works was originally dropped in 2012,
slated to be underway through the Sony Pictures Animation team. We
were later in 2014 shown a glimpse of an animation test for
Tartakovsky’s CG interpretation of E.C. Segar’s classic character
in 2014. (featuring voicework by Grey DeLisle & Tom Kenny). It
was later the studio announced that writer T.J. Fixman from Ratchet
& Clank would
be penning the new Popeye screenplay.
However, soon after the studio seemed to have suffered through some
internal changes and that compromised the project moving forward.
King
Features has been bringing some of its own classic comics brands to
meet fresh generations of fans. New 2D Popeye cartoons/ Popeye’s
Island Adventures took to the Internet High Seas on youtube in 2018.
(I
covered that w/AICN here)
MD'spaceForRant:
As we have seen with the long-awaited return of Samari Jack
Tartakovsky isn't one to let a vision of his go permanently into
hiding and he is back for another round, lets hope this time the ship
floats. Personally, his Clone Wars toons are my favorite. I feel like
he brought as much awe as Kasdan did to the Star Wars universe. --Mad
Dashiell signing off.
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