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Off Topic => Everything Else => Topic started by: George on May 16, 2011, 08:38:57 pm
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TOLDJA! Fox just announced the deal at its upfront this afternoon. Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly said production on the animated series will begin production in Fall 2011 for a 2013 premiere on the Fox schedule. In a cross-studio collaboration, The Flintstones will be produced jointly by 20th Century Fox Television and Warner Bros Television. Dan Palladino (Gilmore Girls) and Kara Vallow (Family Guy) will serve as executive producers with Seth MacFarlane who says the very first cartoon character he drew at age 2 was Fred Flintstone. “So it’s appropriate that events have come full circle, allowing me to produce the newest incarnation of this great franchise. Plus, I think America is finally ready for an animated sitcom about a fat stupid guy with a wife who’s too good for him.” Added Reilly: “The Flintstones are among the funniest and most beloved characters in television history, and we can’t wait to introduce them to a whole new generation on Fox,” said Kevin Reilly, President of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company. “FOX has long been home to iconic families like the Simpsons and the Griffins, so I have no doubt that the Flintstones and the Rubbles are going to fit right in on our air.” He hinted that the deal for the show closed just hours before the presentation today -- just like I told you. In a video shown at the upfronts, MacFarlane shed some light on his plans for the remake: The characters will look the same but he'll introduce new technology, like "What is the animal version of an iPad?”
http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/yabba-d ... intstones/ (http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/yabba-dabba-doo-seth-macfarlane-finally-gets-go-ahead-to-reboot-the-flintstones/)
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Awwwwww fuck. :(
At the very least, they better get James Arnold Taylor to do the voice of Fred.
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"Hey Fred, remember the time we got drunk the bar and road a Dinosaur with Kevin Bacon to Las Vegas? "
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Plus, I think America is finally ready for an animated sitcom about a fat stupid guy with a wife who’s too good for him.
Don't we already have enough of this?
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Plus, I think America is finally ready for an animated sitcom about a fat stupid guy with a wife who’s too good for him.
Don't we already have enough of this?
(http://http://www.reece-eu.net/gallery/var/albums/funny/thats-the-joke.jpg?m=1272640610)
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Man I hope he doesn't screw it up.
I couldn't even get into Family Guy, I didn't like it.
But I grew up with Flintstones and I loved the game on the Genesis cost me top dollar.
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I thought American Dad was funny, but Family Guy is pretty much everything I hate about TV. Especially since it makes people harp on about how it's an 'AWESOME SHOW' but they 'Can't get into' something like 30 Rock or Arrested Development.
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I hope Bam-Bam talks like an adult and has conversations with Dino, who also will talk.
Ooh! And Fred and Wilma will have a kinky sex life! Yes!
Best modern Flintstones ever was the Harvey Birdman episode "The Dabba Don". McFarlane's Flintstones will never top that.
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I thought American Dad was funny, but Family Guy is pretty much everything I hate about TV. Especially since it makes people harp on about how it's an 'AWESOME SHOW' but they 'Can't get into' something like 30 Rock or Arrested Development.
Next you'll say the Cleveland Show is better then Family Guy!
I've never heard of 30 Rock, if you mean 3rd Rock (from the sun) then I loved that show, Arrested Development on the other hand. Urhf.
P.S The Flintstones is awful... Not funny, at all. In fact I'm so sure of that fact I dare anyone to find a really funny moment from any Flintstones episode.
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@Sharky: 30 Rock is that show starring Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Jane Krakowski & Tracy Morgan. I personally can't stand the show, too quirky and *snap* *snap* fast paced. It also is aware that it is the shit, so the characters mug for the camera far too often. Not a fan.
Arrested Development is a fantastic show, extremely well written and one of the best ensemble casts in modern television.
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Agree with Barry.
Well Said GEORGE!!! HARVEY BIRDMAN FOR THE WIN I NEED TO GET THE GAME.
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I thought American Dad was funny, but Family Guy is pretty much everything I hate about TV. Especially since it makes people harp on about how it's an 'AWESOME SHOW' but they 'Can't get into' something like 30 Rock or Arrested Development.
Next you'll say the Cleveland Show is better then Family Guy!
I've never heard of 30 Rock, if you mean 3rd Rock (from the sun) then I loved that show, Arrested Development on the other hand. Urhf.
P.S The Flintstones is awful... Not funny, at all. In fact I'm so sure of that fact I dare anyone to find a really funny moment from any Flintstones episode.
I prefer American Dad because it's not just 'Hey remember the time when *insert random celebrity or obscure movie moment here*'. I thought that South Park was exaggurating when they did that whole episode, since i never used to watch Family Guy, but then when I did see it I realised almost every fucking joke is that same formula. It has it's moments sure, but for the most part it just seems to rely on a lot of 'lol randum XD' humour.
I've never seen Cleveland, but it looks like they just made black counterparts from both shows for it. Is it rubbish?
I'm surprised you never heard of 30 Rock, but Arrested Development is brilliant. I'm not going to argue why.
Also, I realise I was probably being a bit harsh on others when I made my initial statement, but I just don't really get it. I guess the equivalent would be someone telling Sharky that Avatar is a better sci-fi film than Alien. Or someone telling Barry that... I can't think of anything Barry is particularly fond of.
As for the Flintstones, don't forget it's from 1960.
@Sharky: 30 Rock is that show starring Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Jane Krakowski & Tracy Morgan. I personally can't stand the show, too quirky and *snap* *snap* fast paced. It also is aware that it is the shit, so the characters mug for the camera far too often. Not a fan.
Arrested Development is a fantastic show, extremely well written and one of the best ensemble casts in modern television.
How can you find Arrested Development fantastic but say that 30 Rock is too fast paced? If anything Arrested Development probably crams more jokes into an episode than 30 Rock does. It's a bit quirky I can agree on that though.
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Should have clarified, I meant I find 30 Rock to be fast paced, but not in the jokes per minute sort of way. AD cleverly crams callbacks, double entendres, and callforwards into a few lines of dialogue. Whereas I find that characters on 30 Rock just speak too fast or talk too loudly to make what would be a normal situation funnier. It's like all the actors are fighting for attention, or maybe scripts are twice as long as they should be. Sorta reminds me of how "funny" commercials operate, it's a pet peeve of mine. The quirkiness doesn't help either. I'm sure its a good show, just not my thing.
I agree on American Dad, it's the best of the shows. I used to like Family Guy pre-cancellation. But once it returned, it wasn't the same. Cleveland Show is equally bad.
It's funny, the best Family Guy episodes are the ones without cutaway jokes. Like the Brian and Stewie adventures or the recent murder mystery episode.
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I never noticed the characters speaking to fast or too loudly on 30 Rock (apart from Tracey Jordan or Janet, but that's pretty much their entire character).
At least we can agree on Arrested Development!
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One thing I notice with a LOT of American live action shows, be it comedy or drama there is far to much of, how barry said 'snap, snap' everyone talks to fast, there is no realistic pauses between speech. It's hard to say exactly what I mean but it's something that often bothers me.
Family guy is, in my opinion the best of that guys cartoons, infact I find the others almost seem like bad immitations of Family Guy with less entertaining jokes.
Whilst I do know exactly what you mean about the flash back type stuff and celeb 'mocking' I find the way the writers can highlight social situations and you can relate to those kind of jokes really, really funny.
The Cleveland show is really, really bad... REALLY BAD.
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FOX also has two new toons joining the animation lineup: Napoleon Dynamite and this really weird (and pretty lame looking) one called Allen Gregory. Think Family Guy's Stewie going to grade school, but nothing is really that funny.
http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/how-j ... show-27469 (http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/how-jonah-hill-ended-animated-fox-show-27469)
Off topic: The Simpsons had a very funny video game related exchange last night:
Homer has to hand the controls of a blimp over to Bart
Homer: Bart, take the controls!
Bart: What video game is this like?!
Homer: Blimp Assassin 3!
Bart: For Wii or XBOX?
Homer: XBOX.
Bart: Original or 360?
Homer: Fly the blimp you spoiled kid!
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^Napoleon Dynamite is getting a cartoon? Without a word of a lie, my first reaction was to violently slam my head through the gyprock wall i'm sitting next to.
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FOX is to animation as Sonic Team is to games.
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Agree with Barry.
Well Said GEORGE!!! HARVEY BIRDMAN FOR THE WIN I NEED TO GET THE GAME.
It's really good if you're a fan of the series. Short, but sweet.
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The Flintstones are still a Hanna Barbera property (which may or may not have been complety absorbed into Warner Bros Animation im not sure) so i dont understand how Fox is making this show when Warner Bros have there own network.
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Probably because the CW isn't the right network for animated series. They mostly succeed at reruns and teen dramas.
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While under the Time Warner label, the correct holders of the Hanna Barbera properties are Cartoon Network. They have a somewhat hard time holding family audiences, so it makes sense that they would co-develop it with another network. FOX is normally the second highest rated station in America (first is normally CBS) and they already have a ton of deals with Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, so it looks like this all works out good.
My previous post was a joke, and I generally strongly dislike the man's work, but he does seem pretty passionate about this. It could turn out pretty cool if it has the right direction and good writers. John Kricfalusi's Jetsons and Yogi Bear are probably not the best examples, but I kind of like those more than the originals so... I will wait and see before I completely wright this off.
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Wierd thing about MacFarlane is that he has two sides: the lazy adult cartoon side which takes the same family formula started by The Simpsons, recasts it, and makes lazy pop culture jokes. The staging and animation is quite lazy too, though they very rarely make extra effort to so some great animated sequences (like Family Guy's Disney spoof) but those are usually farmed out to more competent animation teams.
Then his other side is the old Cartoon Network MacFarlane who wroekd on a number of great shows including Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Lab and Cow and Chicken.
So I'm hoping his far more creative Cartoon Network side has not died and is what is behind the Flintstones remake.
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His newer stuff is limited by his bad art. The characters shapes are too stiff and thick, making them hard to animate much outside of basic movements. The most exaggerated thing they can do with the characters is the swift body parts breaking thing that I am sure you all have seen a billion times in any one episode.
Assuming the art will be largely the same or very similar, The Flintstones has very good art direction and has more potential in almost every regard. The writers and producers just need to be there.
I mostly hope they do not play too much on current events like his other newer cartoons. In 50 years, no one will understand Family Guy because their random references will be lost with the general public. However, earlier episodes of The Flintstones are still enjoyable because they focus on common human relationships any one person has. When The Flintstones changed to fill the needs of people in the 70s and upwards it only kept people interested for so long, even people like me who really enjoy any kind of animation have a hard time watching those episodes, they just make no sense to people outside of the period.