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Warner Bros. Animation and Elizabeth Banks’ Brownstone Productions are teaming up for a new “Flintstones” series, Variety has learned exclusively.
The project, which is in early development, is described as a primetime animated adult comedy series based on an original idea featuring characters from “The Flintstones.” The series will be produced by Warner Bros. Animation. No network is currently attached.
Very low expectations. Shelf life greatly exceeded; it will either be a short-lived tepid retro-take, or they will try to South Park/Riverdale it into nonsense.
I suspect we won't get any inline ads for cigarettes as Fred and Barney sneak one behind the house.
I love Elizabeth Banks a lot and I love everything she does but I am not sure I am interested in a 2019 sanitized version of The Flintstones. That show is sacred to me.
I love Elizabeth Banks a lot and I love everything she does but I am not sure I am interested in a 2019 sanitized version of The Flintstones. That show is sacred to me.
It most likely would be the opposite of sanitized. I believe "edgy" will appear in nine out of ten reviews, and the tenth will dismiss it as a mainstream attempt to be edgy.
Blah, I wonder which one will now be gay, and which one will be transgender?
Probably the mixed-race neighbor's daughter.
(Look, I diss only the formulaic, by-the-numbers nature of how TV does this, not any component in RL.)
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IMO, there's just no way to even equal the original series.
It was so much a product of its time that even a loving homage would be... misguided.
For one thing, it followed The Honeymooners by only four years. it is now almost sixty years behind us.
(Anyone else realize that Honeymooners ran for one season of 39 episodes? I felt much the same shock when explaining to one of my kids that Hill Street Blues is now forty years old... and premiered right around the thirtieth year of television.)
The Flintstones was based on the Honeymooners. William Hanna was a big fan of the Honeymooners and it highly influenced the show.
I wont watch the redo.
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