Sausage Party Director To Helm The Jetsons

05/25/2017 04:40 pm EDT

Everyone's favorite futuristic family is traveling back to the big screen!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Conrad Vernon has been tapped by Warner Animation Group -- the studio behind The Lego Movie, Storks, and The Lego Batman Movie -- to helm The Jetsons, their upcoming animated feature-length film based on the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

Vernon is best known for co-directing the raunchy, r-rated animated film Sausage Party with Greg Tiernan, which Seth Rogen co-wrote, co-produced, and starred in and went on to gross $140 million at the global box office. He also co-directed Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted and executive produced Gravity Falls.

"Meet George Jetson...Jane, his wife...daughter Judy...his boy Elroy..." The catchy tune of The Jetsons ideally captures the lighthearted essence of the show, a futuristic counterpoint to The Flintstones that reflected the space-age optimism of the times. The Jetsons were the very first family, animated or not, to have a big-screen home entertainment system decades before it became a reality. They lived in a world of flying cars, floating cities and androids, all commonplace elements in today's most popular sci-fi movies and television series.

The Jetsons originally aired in primetime from 1962-1963. When its popularity refused to fade in syndication, new episodes were produced and broadcast from 1985-1987.

The upcoming film will actually be the second time that The Jetsons made their way to the big screen. Jetsons: The Movie was released in July 1990 and earned $20.3 million at the box office. Over the years, Paramount Pictures and Universal Pitcures both tried to make a live-action film -- with names like Adam Shankman, Robert Rodriguez and The Goldbergs creator Adam F. Goldberg attached at one point or another -- but it none of those projects ever got off the ground.

Photo Credit: Columbia Pictures

Disclosure: PopCulture. is owned by Paramount. Sign up for Paramount+ by clicking here.