{"id":51266,"date":"2015-05-26T14:48:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T20:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/the-live-action-adventures-of-jonny-quest.html"},"modified":"2015-05-26T14:48:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T20:48:48","slug":"the-live-action-adventures-of-jonny-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/the-live-action-adventures-of-jonny-quest.html","title":{"rendered":"The Live-Action Adventures of Jonny Quest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hrm. Color me worried. It&#39;s going to be tough to do this without it being tongue-in-cheek. You can do B-Movie Adventure Plots and play it mostly straight (see: Indiana Jones), but it&#39;s a delicate balancing act.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, of course, there&#39;s a slew of impolitic aspects to the JQ canon, not the least of which was the treatment of anyone not a white male American. Sinister Orientals, mystical Indians, pugnacious pygmies &#8230; lots of land mines there. Not to mention how to deal with the dearth of women (aside from Jade Jezebel) in the original.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if done well, I would give them All the Money. So there is that.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Heidi MacDonald<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Sin City director will be returning to the family adventure genre<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.comicsbeat.com\/robert-rodriguez-set-to-helm-jonny-quest\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/8mD3mTCQEHGfVIQdM1Vm-bDGoTC2hEeRtD_xGV8OSmT7Yd6_FJ3gCJfqayPGlvNb_5ndtLkQiCMR-BhqiPP6DSdg-_tpOPnbfjXwNsMyLtH-63WZtm_8SZoY=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.comicsbeat.com\/robert-rodriguez-set-to-helm-jonny-quest\/'>Robert Rodriguez set to helm Jonny Quest<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe Sin City director will be returning to the family adventure genre\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/9DmvBSj2JzM'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hrm. Color me worried. It&#39;s going to be tough to do this without it being tongue-in-cheek. You can do B-Movie Adventure Plots and play it mostly straight (see: Indiana Jones), but it&#39;s a delicate balancing act. Plus, of course, there&#39;s a slew of impolitic aspects to the JQ canon, not the least of which was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/the-live-action-adventures-of-jonny-quest.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Live-Action Adventures of Jonny Quest?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39241,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/19\/disney-california-adventure-ti.html","url_meta":{"origin":51266,"position":0},"title":"Disney California Adventure ti&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 19-Oct-13 11:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"Disney California Adventure time! 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