Live Action Speedy Gonzales Movie
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Speedy Gonzales is taking his folk-hero status, incredible speed and signature red kerchief to the big screen, with help from George Lopez.
The comedian is attached to provide the voice of the fastest mouse in all Mexico for a politically correct live-action/CG hybrid feature set up at New Line Cinema.
The Looney Tunes character debuted in the 1950s as a regular nemesis of Sylvester the Cat. A 1955 short about the tiny hero, "Speedy Gonzales," won the Academy Award for best short subject, (cartoon). Pat Boone even released a hit song about the famous mouse in 1962.
Over the years, Speedy appeared in the live-action/animation features "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," "Space Jam" and "Looney Tunes: Back in Action." But the character has often courted criticism that the ethnic characterizations of him and his compatriots (especially lazy cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez) are stereotypically racist and severely outdated.
Aware of this, New Line and the producers plan to update the brand with a modernized sensibility.
"We wanted to make sure that it was not the Speedy of the 1950s -- the racist Speedy," said the comedian's wife Ann Lopez, who will serve alongside him as a producer. "Speedy's going to be a misunderstood boy who comes from a family that works in a very meticulous setting, and he's a little too fast for what they do. He makes a mess of that. So he has to go out in the world to find what he's good at."
That path becomes clearer once Speedy befriends a gun-shy race-car driver.
"Garfield" scribes Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen will write the script.
Lopez hosts "Lopez Tonight" on TBS and appears in New Line's ensemble hit "Valentine's Day," which has grossed $158 million worldwide after two weekends. He also recently starred in "The Spy Next Door" and provided a voice for "Beverly Hills Chihuahua."
The best part is, no matter what they do I'm sure it will be criticized for some kind of racism anyway.
Discuss.
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STOP. RUINING. MY. CHILDHOOD!
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Another childhood memory destroyed
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Eh. I dunno if I'm excited or not.
George Lopez, while not appropriate, is the first obvious choice for the voice. But a live-action movie? Why not just all CGI??
Life is a performance, and the world is full of critics. Give it your all like it's your last show.
You don't even want to know
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What. The. Fuck.
How can you have a live action film about a mouse that's shit quick? I barely remember anything about that cartoon and that's the way childhood memories should stay.
"Whoa baby I was born, with a fast fuse. I've got no time to love, just a city to abuse"
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Hollywood destroys everything.
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why does Hollywood have to ruin everything? :(
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Finally, we'll get to see a mouse run from border patrol...
"I'm in love with UberCream." - Max Gilardi.
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How the fuck are they going to make a PC Speedy Gonzales?
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At 2/24/10 04:48 PM, DarthRacoon wrote: What. The. Fuck.
How can you have a live action film about a mouse that's shit quick? I barely remember anything about that cartoon and that's the way childhood memories should stay.
Probably with some really terrible computer editing and sound effects.
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I expect it to come out in late 2012-2013, so it's okay guys. We'll all be dead.
inb4 OMG WERE NOT GONNA DIE SHUT UP U DUMMIE!!!!!!!!!
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i am going to brutally murder the assholes who come up wit these ideas...
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Any cartoon turned live-action usually fails.
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George Lopez.
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gojira is what he is called in Hapan. godzilla is extinct now though beecuause we are moved into different times! what do you feel about this?
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I'll see it Takashi Miike directs it.
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Gabriel Iglesias would have been so much better as the voice (s)
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Is it really necessary? They keep fucking up childhood cartoons...
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At 2/24/10 07:48 PM, Corpus-Delicti wrote: Is it really necessary? They keep fucking up childhood cartoons...
Actually, I was hoping for a live action Rocco's Modern Life cartoon.
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At 2/24/10 08:45 PM, Spunky6666 wrote:At 2/24/10 07:48 PM, Corpus-Delicti wrote: Is it really necessary? They keep fucking up childhood cartoons...Actually, I was hoping for a live action Rocco's Modern Life cartoon.
That... would be interesting.
