{"id":13793,"date":"2009-02-18T22:24:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T05:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=13793"},"modified":"2009-02-18T22:24:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T05:24:13","slug":"wherein-dave-expresses-his-pleasure-that-he-bought-the-dvd-set-of-the-original-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/18\/wherein-dave-expresses-his-pleasure-that-he-bought-the-dvd-set-of-the-original-series.html","title":{"rendered":"Wherein Dave expresses his pleasure that he bought the DVD set of the original series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because I fear the movie adaptation<\/a> is going to suck chunks.<\/p>\n

\n

Always wearing the scoop badge, Robert came back with an exclusive bit of upcoming film news : Seems Dwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson, \u201cRace\u201d director Andy Fickman, and \u201cHigh School Musical\u201d moppet Zac Efron are teaming up for a feature film version of the cartoon classic \u201cThe Adventures of Johnny Quest\u201d!<\/p>\n

For those that don’t recall, the animated series (first aired in the 60s) told of a boy, 11-year-old Jonny, who accompanies his father, Dr. Benton Quest, on extraordinary adventures. Fearing Jonny could end up in the wrong hands, a special agent \/ bodyguard \/ pilot from Intelligence One Government, Race Bannon, is hired to guard and train him.<\/p>\n

Zac Efron will play the title role, with Dwayne Johnson as his Race Bannon.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019 I love the script, I love working with Andy…\u2019\u2019, Johnson tells Moviehole. \u201cI don’t know if you’ve read the latest [draft] but it’s awesome and it’s badass and I haven’t read, this is what I told everyone over at Warner Bros., and I love the studio too by the way, you know, I had my experience with them with Get Smart and they were great, I hadn’t read an action script like that in a LONG time. And that action was unbelievable. That will happen.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Johnson confirms that he\u2019ll be Race Bannon, and that rumours suggesting Zac Efron might be Johnny Quest are on the money. Efron isn\u2019t a lock though \u2013 and Johnson\u2019s all ears. You see, in the source material the character is only twelve years old, but Efron\u2019s 17. \u2018\u2019I loved Jonny Quest when I was a kid. If you go a little older, it gives you more, it allows you to be…it just gives you a bit more, you know. But then you want to honor it too, so… \u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

1. Get Smart<\/em> was awful. Rather, it was awful as an adaptation of the TV series Get Smart<\/em>. Taken for itself<\/a> it was merely mediocre.<\/p>\n

2. Jonny Quest as a 17-year-old is a lot less interesting than the original concept. It’s doable, I suppose — the Real Adventures of Jonny Quest <\/em>weren’t awful — but, really, half the time the fun is in the plot and what the grups are doing, not Jonny and Hadji. <\/p>\n

3. The charm of JQ — both in the original and in retrospect — stem from the charm of the B-movie. Every episode is a godawful concept from the 30s-50s, rendered for a kid’s cartoon (and thus both more sophisticated than 90% of cartoon writing until the late 90s and simultaneously appallingly unsuitable for modern politically correct audiences today). How they will capture that with (whomever) and the Rock is a great puzzlement.<\/p>\n

*sigh*<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

(via BD<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Because I fear the movie adaptation is going to suck chunks. Always wearing the scoop badge, Robert came back with an exclusive bit of upcoming film news : Seems Dwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson, \u201cRace\u201d director Andy Fickman, and \u201cHigh School Musical\u201d moppet Zac Efron are teaming up for a feature film version of the cartoon … Continue reading “Wherein Dave expresses his pleasure that he bought the DVD set of the original series”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-cartoons","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6023,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/04\/best_cartoon_ev.html","url_meta":{"origin":13793,"position":0},"title":"Best. 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