Comments on: The Jetsons: What Happened to the Live-Action Movie?

By: jesse

jesse — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:05:55 +0000

I was thinking maybe Conan O’brien for the George Jetson character. I’m pretty sure he would offer the hints of cartoonish antics without stooping too low to get the jokes.. just an everyday man thrust into the future, almost. just trying to make it. And he’s already got the hair. I’m watching the Jetsons as I’m typing this, actually. Boomerang channel. Danny Devito is definitely Spacely. If you can think of another short, chubby guy, let me know. Judy.. maybe Jessica Simpson.. and Elroy, maybe Daeg Faerch the young Michael Myers in the new Halloween-he has the face for it. Maybe it will keep him from being some sort of typecast If he’d be up for it. I think I have gone off on enough of a tangent. That’s my thoughts. MAYBE it would be a completely jumbled cast though. lol.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:44:52 +0000

I have no idea what speedracer was before the movie came out. I`m 28. But i do remember Jetsons fondly.

Paul – Actually, Jetsons would still work as they are no flying cars and houses in the sky in the year 2009. So we still don`t know what the future holds.

By: dude

dude — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:22:32 +0000

Paul:
Perhaps some valid points, but saying a Robert Rodriguez movie would balloon is budget is ridiculous. Rodriguez is one of the most cost efficient directors out there. If you’re going to take a gamble on this movie, he’s the one you want to do it.

By: paul

paul — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:46:47 +0000

A Jetsons live action would be a FAIL. Scooby Doo & Flintstones, in particular, were successful, but they weren’t exactly blockbusters. The $45 million budget that Flintstones used up 15 years ago (to it’s $130 million gross) was standard money for a film, but compared to today, the budget, especially for something like The Jetsons, would easily be triple that amount. Considering Rodriguez on the helm, make that quadruple the amount.

See, what made Jetsons irresistible back then is the futuristic look at how incredible the future would be, and yet it stayed true to everyday issues, like family, work, and all sorts of everyday problems. It never took itself seriously, though. Now, that flashy futuristic look is a joke. There are no flying cars. We don’t live in single family homes a mile into the sky & we certainly don’t have cranky sarcastic robot maids. If any of that were to be placed in a movie, it would have been done a hundred times over in many other movies over the last 40 years. Seriously, family fare films need more depth then that nowadays to keep the adults awake.

To top it off, the Jetsons animated movie didn’t fare well at the box office back in 1990, and the numerous animated Jetsons TV movies (like The Jetsons: Father & Son Day) were watched by… no one.

If the movie does get made, my estimates are 130 million dollar budget, with an 60 million dollar return. Don’t beileve me? Look at the recent Speedracer. Also a popular 60’s cartoon, remade a few times, and failed so bad at the box office, if it wasn’t for that bat movie, Warner Bros. would be in some kind of trouble.