Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I grew up with the ROCKY & BULLWINKLE show. In fact, I grew up in the Bay Area and there was a Chuck E. Cheese's type chain restaurant/arcade called BULLWINKLE'S that I spent many an hour in, devouring pizza, playing pre-Mortal Kombat arcade games and watching the animatronic representations of Rocky, Bullwinkle, Underdog, Boris, Natasha and Dudley Do-Right crack jokes and play music for the screaming kids... Ahh, what great times...
Anyway, my two favorite sketches on the Rocky & Bullwinkle show were AESOP AND SON and PEABODY'S IMPROBABLE HISTORY (aka MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN). Mr. Peabody was a brilliant dog and Sherman his boy. They would travel throughout time using Mr. Peabody's invention: the WABAC machine. However, history was not always as what was recorded, so they had to lend a hand so history happened as they knew it should. It was a very silly concept, but as I kid loved it.
Dreamworks has nabbed LION KING director Rob Minkoff to co-write and direct an animated feature based on MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN. He'll co-write with Andrew Kurtzman while the film will be produced by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Tiffany Ward (originator Jay Ward's daughter and head of Bullwinkle Studio).
After the walking, talking abortion called THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY & BULLWINKLE and the only slightly less insulting DUDLEY DO-RIGHT movie, I will of course be a little concerned with any adaptation of these classic cartoons, but I think Dreamworks has the right idea here, making an animated feature. I hope they go for a different tone than the SHREKS and a different animation style. It will be "digitally animated" which I don't mind, as long as it captures a little bit of Jay Ward's classic. What do you folks think?
