Was anyone expecting a reboot of The Flinstones? I guess I should have been, but I wasn’t. I certainly wasn’t expecting it to come from Seth MacFarlane, but apparently it’s been the Family Guy guy’s dream for some time. Well, hot on the heels of Fox’s new schedule not including The Cleveland Show, MacFarlane has gotten the go-ahead from Fox/WB to begin redeveloping the property for both film and television.
The news comes from Deadline, who style the story as one filled with heavy negotiations and lawyerly oversight across several years, as Fox and WB Television have been nervous about the master of poop-filled gallows humor being let loose on such a family friendly property. It seems like a new version of the TV show will come first, with a movie to follow if it’s successful I suppose?
I liked the first few seasons of Family Guy well enough when I was in middle/high school, but even those early episodes haven’t held up well when I revisited them, and anytime I’ve run across the show recently it’s just been one “oh no” after another. Overall the MacFarlane brand hasn’t really pushed well outside of Family Guy, though American Dad and the Star Wars-related spin-offs have admittedly had a life of their own (and his role in Hellboy 2 was fun). With this and his movie gearing up though, I guess we’ll find out if his sensibilities are any more tolerable when applied to something other than Griffin family.
Oh no.
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Seriously? Wow. Didn’t see this coming either. I haven’t seen the Goodman one in ages but I remember it being decent enough. God knows how this would be…
No bleepin’ way, Mr. Beck! I want more of the Genndy Tartakovsky stuff, and pronto.
I must say, in the midst of all the reboot madness in Hollywood, I was totally expecting a Flintstones reboot to happen some time soon, and here we go. In 3D starring Kevin James as Fred, I’m sure.
Just thought I’d also mention as well, once again, that the 90’s film, while never good unless you’re 7 years old, has aged worse than you’d ever imagine. How this movie wasn’t one of the biggest unmitigated box-office failures of all time, I really don’t know. Kyle MacLachlan, what the fuck?
I hate Family Guy with the heat of a billion suns.
Is this a new cartoon or a new live action version?
The only thing that will get me to watch this is if Brian and Stewie use their time machine and pay a visit.
At first I thought this was going to be about Todd Mcfarlane rebooting the Flinstones, and imagined lots of spikey, burning vaginas and guys with dumb capes.
Agreed with both MPCherkowsky and Sebastian. Family Guy and anything else that asshole does is like toxic waste to me, and I’d rather see Todd try to do something with it; I’m sure it wouldn’t be as horrible.
The link you provided re: The Cleveland Show” shows that it is on the fall schedule.
Family Guy Star Wars is funny (but nowehere near as good as Robot Chicken). Every once in a while I’ll flip past it and catch a funny line, but I can’t watch a whole episode. I couldn’t believe when Fox cancelled King of the Hill in favour of The Cleveland Show.
Thanks for the smoking ad, I hadn’t seen that in years.
Flintstones is one of my fav toons. Can not be replicated. But I will keep an open mind since I’m a big fan of Seth MacFarlane!
The Cleveland Show is way better written than Family Guy. Most recent FG just chucks a 4 minute long Mick Jagger/David Bowie music video from the 80s in the middle of the run-time “Because it’s gay”. I can’t imagine the rights to the clip were any cheaper than the animation it replaced, but I bet the writers (manatees?) got to knock off early that day.
That said, the Brian and Stewie stuff is always strong.
I still enjoy the back and forth Stewie and Brian have.
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