Wednesday, June 27, 2012

SONY'S POPEYE 3d GETS its DIRECTOR! GENNDY TARTAKovsky!


Genndy Tartakovsky to Direct 3D POPEYE Picture for Sony Animation


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Although Genndy Tartakovsky’s first feature film as a director is the upcoming Adam Sandler-starrer, Hotel Transylvania, he’ll quickly turn around and direct Popeye as his second.  Tartakovsky is best known for his phenomenal series work with a roster including The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars.  (You can check out an example of what a Tartakovsky feature film looks like by watching the recent trailer for Hotel Transylvania.) Writers Jay Scherick and David Ronn (The Smurfs) were attached to pen thePopeye adaptation as recently as last November.  Hit the jump for more on Popeye.
Variety reports that Tartakovsky is attached to develop and direct a 3D version of Popeye.  The famous sailor started back in 1929 when he first appeared in the comicstrip, “Thimble Theater.”  Known for his bizarre manner of speech and his borderline addiction to spinach, Popeye is one of the longest-running comics in history.  There have been numerous cartoon iterations and one abysmal live-action feature: 1980′s Popeye, starring Robin Williams.  Some of the other famous characters from the world of Popeye include the waif, Olive Oyl; Popeye’s adopted son, Swee’Pea, the hamburger-eating Wimpy and the antagonistic Bluto.  Sony’s production on a CG/3D version ofPopeye goes back at least two years now.  The 3D animated feature about the famous cartoon sailor is being produced through Sony Pictures Animation along with Avi and Ari Arad under their Arad Productions banner. 

4 comments:

  1. Nice! Popeye 3D looks great! Popeye in one of the few cartoons that can pulled of as 2 hour movie.

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    1. agreed john popeye is great and about time he came back! :)

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  2. I loved the one with Robin Williams, I have great memories from it and have great respect to the character.
    The Popeye movie deserves it's dos and hope it does well in the theaters :)

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    1. agreed Anthony i love my popeye hes up there with su[erman as a great patriotic hero!

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