Yogi Bear Hybrid Movie

When we look back at history, Scooby Doo and Alvin and the Chipmunks will be blamed for creating a whole new genre of horrible family films. Warner Bros is developing a live-action/animated hybrid big screen adaptation of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon Yogi Bear. Surf’s Up co-writer/director Ash Brannon has signed on to direct the project, which will be scripted by Tooth Fairy/Surviving Christmas scribes Joshua Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimilia. Like Chipmunks, the entire film will be shot live-action, with exception of Yogi, Boo-boo and the other creature characters will be computer animated.

The character made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character on The Huckleberry Hound Show. In 1961, he was given his own television show, The Yogi Bear Show, which followed the adventures of Yogi in Jellystone Park. Yogi used a catch phrase “I’m smarter than the average bear!”, and would often steal picnic baskets from campers, which would anger Park Ranger Smith. The character also wears a hat, and sports a collar and tie. Interesting bit of trivia: According to the BBC, this was a common trick that Hanna-Barbera use to use that would allow them to to redraw just the head and keep the body static, which reduced the number of drawings needed for a seven-minute cartoon from 14,000 to around 2,000.

  • Mr_Sammich
    Yogi Bear, I can dig it.
  • As long as Will Ferrell isnt ranger rick than this should be a gas.
  • Chris
    Oho~
  • If Yogi were a real bear in the movie...and mauled at least one person for a yummy pic-a-nic basket...I'd be there to watch it. Otherwise, no thanks.
  • Rosario
    Hey Scooby Doo was not that bad, not that damn chipmunks movie can burn for all I care.

    And I second Vlads comments, he needs to maul someone or im not watching it.
  • Ghost
    That trick is very common not only with HB but even with anime to this day.
  • Depending on who gets control of this, like any project, it could be great.

    But a classic, 2D animated Yogi Bear movie would be fantastic! Cheaper, too - or if they don't already, make a new series of the TV show, merchandise it, MAYBE make a movie and then call it a day. Bam.
  • Who's Ranger Rick :S Is he one of the non-official HB characters?

    But anyways just as long as they keep the 60s style instead of putting women rangers into it and stuff then fine. Because, I don't want to sound sexist or anything, but that just doesn't work. Not for the time zone it's set in anyway. It would just really draw attention to it and take the piss I think, and make it look stupid.

    I hope they don't mess up the cast like they did with Sarah Michelle Gellar in Scooby Doo. I mean, since when did Daphne have tacky straight blonde hair and just do thousands of random backflips and kickboxing and shit just because she could? x_x Her outfit was acceptable because it was very Daphne like, and I didn't actually realise there had been a change at all when I first saw it

    I am seriously worried about this film, I don't want to ruin it for anyone I really don't, but I am afraid of it being unrealistic and really kiddified in a cartoony sort of way instead of it just having the charm that the cartoon used to (but in a realistic sense.)


    My last word on this would be (and do tell me if I'm just being paranoid) what about coloured people? I'm not being racist here, so do read on. Scooby Doo was set much later I think, and did have coloured people in occasionally and that looked fine. But the other day I saw a George Bush pisstake of Yogi Bear on YouTube, about Yogi and Boo grabbing oil. It had nothing to do with coloured people AT ALL, so it's not like it was intentionally pisstaking them or anything.

    But just for a split second they showed a black person at a bench merely eating a sandwich, and because (due to the time period it was set in) you never saw coloured people in Yogi Bear (counting out indians and cowboys obviously), it just REALLY drew attention to it. I was actually like :O OMG... Was that a coloured person?? *Winds back!* It just looked so racist it wasn't even funny. Before I saw that I was laughing at the cartoon, but then I was shocked into silence.

    I'm not trying to start up a 'Coloured people shouldn't be allowed equal oppotunities in good cartoon/film/things today' ..THING. But.. you know what I mean? I think it's just hard to give equal opportunities in certain situations incase it does the opposite of what you want it to. (Sorry if I sounded like a paranoid idiot >.>;)

    I mean maybe on screen as a live thing it won't draw attention to it as it's kind of different seeing coloureds in real life, whereas as a cartoon everything is being drawn attention to just by the style of the cartoon.
  • trm
    Why why why? Warner Bros.
    Its ruined ruined ruined.
    I will say never ever whatever they want to make it came back.
    Someone remember Tom and Jerry.
    What CGI haven do in this show. Make Tom Flat, Freeze before falling, bom blasting Tom. And the success of this show is because of music score, the sound of the bom, the sound of rushes, the sound of fear, the sound of heart beating and the sound of ouch aaah eeoaaah. CGI making it too logic make character not like classic toon. How about coyote and road runner and an american tail. They do very prefect. CGI haven done in the movie in the past too. If do tell me.
    Yeah that toon classic.
    And Classic will stay as classic.
  • damperobi
    Actually I did some thought as to how to make this work as I figured they would meddle with Yogi at some point. They tore Scooby apart but the second one was more like the cartoons but what got me on Yogi was After my beloved Underdog was butchered I thought of how could they make an acceptable Yogi live action. I for one think Steve Carell would be perfect for Ranger Smith as for my origin ideas I am going to try to submit that to the studio anyway it's going to be bumpy if it's like any other thrown together garbage if not thought out.
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