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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/16/09

In reply to The Rock Dons Race Bannon's White Wig In Jonny Quest Movie
Zac Efron??

This sucks....
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kingzilch
02/16/09

In reply to The Rock Dons Race Bannon's White Wig In Jonny Quest Movie
Okay, nothing particularly against the Venture Brothers, but is it even possible to mention Jonny Quest on the internet anymore WITHOUT the thread being hijacked?
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
02/16/09

@kingzilch: you wouldn't think so. I agree though, despite my VB comment above. Clearly Johnny Quest is worthy of its own love and admiration or the brilliant minds behind Venture wouldn't have borrowed from it so liberally.
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EBone
02/16/09

In reply to The Rock Dons Race Bannon's White Wig In Jonny Quest Movie
The Rock is a great action film actor, but can he carry off the steamy, unspoken sexual tension between Race and Dr. Quest?
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Trai_Dep
02/17/09

@EBone: Well, that's easy. But the raw, unspoken, yet treacherous homoerotic undercurrents between Jonny and Hadji? THAT'S why child actors rake in the big $$$.
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The Curse of Millhaven
02/16/09

In reply to The Rock Dons Race Bannon's White Wig In Jonny Quest Movie
I am much more interested in who will play Hadji. Will they chicken out and drop the second-coolest character (after race)? Also, how about Jade?
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kingzilch
02/16/09

@The Curse of Millhaven: "I am much more interested in who will play Hadji."

Can you see it NOT being the Slumdog Millionaire kid?
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Trai_Dep
02/17/09

@kingzilch: One of the Jonas Brothers, dunked in a spray-tanning booth and given 30 minutes of voice-coaching is a likelier bet.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
02/16/09

In reply to The Rock Dons Race Bannon's White Wig In Jonny Quest Movie
Why isn't it the Venture Bros?

Because they want to make money. I have loved the Venture Bros since the first season, have the Blood Judo shirt (if you know what that entailed), and hope to get a film someday. But The Rock, and HSM guy? You do not want that kind of Venture Bros film because to make it as blockbustry as you would want it it would have to be toned down a fair bit. You think they're going to mass market a tentpole film like this if it has a naked Rock as Brock Sampson covered in blood after gutting 100 henchmen, smoking a cigarette? No, no they're not, but it is what we would need from a good VB film.

And badmouthing Bandit?! harsh.
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ManchuCandidate
02/16/09

In reply to The Rock Dons Race Bannon's White Wig In Jonny Quest Movie
Zac Effron? I thought Jonny was supposed to be, you know, smart.
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oboesqueaks
02/16/09

@ManchuCandidate: That's about the first thing I thought... or at least ass-kicking. Not a pansy super tan boy who wears capri pants. Jonny Quest was my favorite show as a kid, but this movie looks like a drinking game.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
02/16/09

@oboesqueaks: Zac Effron gets a half-lifetime pass for playing the young Simon in Firefly.

Just a half kid, so dont blow it.
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Trai_Dep
02/17/09

@ManchuCandidate: And, y'know, young? Jonny & Hodj are kids, fercrissakes.

Tho, slap a white Andy Warhol fright wig on him and Zac could star as Race. The post-60s, groovy, acid-washed Race. Who eats Bandit. While tripping and after accidentally putting him in the microwave to dry out.

Or heck - I'm generous - can't Bandit eat Zac/Race? No microwave needed - wolfing him down alive works for me.
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BlaspheminCapn
02/16/09

In reply to The Rock Dons Race Bannon's White Wig In Jonny Quest Movie
On the bright side, it might generate another season of the Venture Bros.
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Plague
02/16/09

@BlaspheminCapn:

Since it's being made right now, I'd say you got what you wanted.
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bluehinter
12/11/08

In reply to Hollywood Is As Eager To See Jonny Quest Movie As We Are
Oh yeah, and while it's not sci-fi, I'm still amazed that they still haven't filmed Brian Michael Bendis's "Torso."

How can you go wrong with Elliot Ness hunting a vicious serial killer amongst the Hoovervilles of 1930's Cleveland, and it's all a true story!?!
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
12/11/08

@bluehinter: Rumor has it that it's on David Fincher's roster.

[www.imdb.com]
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bluehinter
12/11/08

In reply to Hollywood Is As Eager To See Jonny Quest Movie As We Are
I'm afraid that Venture Bros. have completely ruined any chance Hollywood might have ever had of producing a watchable Johnny Quest movie.

If they try to go tongue-in-cheek old school Johnny Quest, it'll find itself in direct comparison with Venture Bros, and unless the writing is extremely good, then a lot of people will probably walk out of the theater disappointed.

If they play it as a straight up "modernized adventure flick with minor callbacks to the original series to keep the nerds happy", then it'll suck worse than 'Lost In Space' and 'Speed Racer' combined.
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SLL1065
12/11/08

In reply to Hollywood Is As Eager To See Jonny Quest Movie As We Are
Joss Whedon needs to write and direct the Jonny Quest film.

And, Tim Matheson, the voice of Jonny Quest and Otter from Animal House needs a cameo.
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ManchuCandidate
12/11/08

@SLL1065:

No.

Yes.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
12/11/08

@SLL1065:

No. Yes; can he do the Dr. Quest voice now? He was the VPOTUS on West Wing for a while.
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B
12/11/08

In reply to Hollywood Is As Eager To See Jonny Quest Movie As We Are
Didn't Johnny Quest kinda suck, though?
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
12/11/08

@B: No. No it didn't.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
12/11/08

@Grrsn Dn: Indeed it didn't.

The original 60's version rocked so hard, as detailed in Cambias' post, see above.
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Cambias
12/11/08

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I only want to see an Jonny Quest movie if it's old-school, not "updated" or "reimagined." Old-school Jonny Quest means:

1. Race Bannon fucking kills people.

2. Commie bad guys, who get killed by Race Bannon.

3. Not a woman in sight, and let's keep that subtext between Dr. Q. and Race in the closet.

4. The original soundtrack. Put some pop ballad on, or some God-damned synthed up version of the original, and I swear I'll fly to California and stuff the music director into a Sousaphone.

5. Hajji keeps his Nehru jacket and turban. If he's hip and street-smart, may the demon king Ravana devour the scriptwriters.

5.5. Hajji is from India. Let's not try to get clever with our geopolitics.

6. Computers are large machines with many blinky lights.

7. If Dr. Quest et al are protecting the God-damned environment from exploiters, may Bandit pee in the writers' shoes.

8. Pterodactyls. Also giant eyeball spiders.
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Grey_Area
12/11/08

@Cambias: Bless you, I agree with you on every point. Sadly, that's not what making a soulless remake is all about. Hollywood knows we the audience are easily confused by movies set in the distant past with primitive customs and politically incorrect social mores. Just sit back and let them churn out another 2 hours of pablum that conforms to the Accepted Formula.

After all, they know what's best for us.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
12/11/08

@Cambias: Here, here.
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Meirelle
12/11/08

In reply to Hollywood Is As Eager To See Jonny Quest Movie As We Are
BOBISM sounds genius! :D
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goldfarb
12/11/08

In reply to Hollywood Is As Eager To See Jonny Quest Movie As We Are
"The Black List, a list of the year's best unProduced movie screenplays based on a poll of 250 film execs,..."

and I've also heard it described as 'favorite' not 'best'...

WHAT WOULD KENNY DO? ...sounds like The Kid - [www.imdb.com] only with the old switcheroo...

ROUNDTABLE - sounds lame...they should just do 'Mage' and have done with it.

there's also :

GALAHAD by Ryan Condal

"A revisionist twist on the King Arthur legend from the knight Galahad's perspective."
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
12/11/08

In reply to Hollywood Is As Eager To See Jonny Quest Movie As We Are
I'd take a Johnny Quest film for sure... but A Venture Bros over that any day.

As for Brian K Vaughn boy he's a creative genius, one might say a visionary.

[en.wikipedia.org]
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Rasselas
12/11/08

@Grrsn Dn: Come now. Could an animated television series from the '80s have BKV's trademark pop culture references? There aren't any other Generation X writers who work that angle. He's the only one.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
12/11/08

@Rasselas: I kid, I kid. I do like the guy's work. But still. I just want a Visionaries movie.
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