Dan Aykroyd To Join Yogi Bear? Ranger Man TBC Source: Variety
He's smarter than the average bear, partial to the odd pic-a-nic basket and pals with Boo Boo, and pretty soon he's going to a film star too. That's right, prepare yourself for Yogi Bear: The Movie, a fusion of live action and CGI, that, if Warner Bros. get their way, will see Dan Aykroyd voicing the furry, park-dwellin' felon.
Definitely involved in the Jellystone japes is Anna Faris who'll play a documentary-maker that may or may not be modelled on Grizzly Man-era Werner Herzog. Justin Timberlake, meanwhile, is in talks to voice Yogi's bow-tie wearing sidekick Boo Boo.
It's a fairly demented sounding proposition but will hopefully be a step up from previous live-action/CG Hanna-Barbera adaptations, not least because there's more of them to come. A lot more.
Warners are currently hard at work on a number of Hanna-Barbera properties, including Scooby-Doo 4, Jonny Quest, and the intriguing-sounding Hong Kong Phooey, a dark-tinged origin story of the filing-cabinet-based janitor. We hope.
Yogi is first cab off the rank though, with Eric Brevig (Journey To The Center Of The Earth) set to direct from a script by Brad Copeland. According to Variety, shooting will kick off in New Zealand before Christmas.
oh dear - alvin and the chipmunks was a huge pile of horse dung as was the crap bratz movie - why keep bringing up cartoons that shouldn't be messed with!
if you want audiences to flock in, cast seth rogan as yogi - at least that would bring a bit of quality to the picture - justin timberlake!?! ... Read More
...which is that this can only end in tears; and unfortunately not ones of laughter. I mean honestyl, Scooby Do didn't work, Garfield didn't work... others... didn't work. why do they insist on keeping on trying? even stuff with a lot of potential like G.I.Joe they ruin. Hanna-Barbera made brilliant cartoons... but they don't translate well to movies, clearly.
Unfortunately, so long as there's enough dimwits with little enough memory to remember how bad the last ones were, they'll continue to... Read More
They're saying something about our species finally hitting rock bottom in the creative redundancy stakes and they've come to cleanse the planet of our lame-ness? ... Read More
