'Looney Tunes' Fans Sound off After Reboot Ditches Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam's Guns
06/08/2020 06:11 pm EDT
Time Warner ordered more than 1,000 minutes of cartoons for HBO Max, which equals about 200 individual shorts. They did not hold back in many of them. Browndgardt said his team might have actually "gone a little too far" in some, and they might have to be released under Cartoon Network's Adult Swim label. They also worked in some of the lesser-known Looney Tunes characters, like the giant orange beast Gossamer and the mice Hubie and Bertie.
Indie comics artist Johnny Ryan, who created Angry Youth Comix and Prison Pit, is one of the unique talents brought onto the project. "We're going through this wave of anti-bullying, everybody needs to be friends, everybody needs to get along," Ryan acknowledged to the Times. "Looney Tunes is pretty much the antithesis of that," he continued. "It's two characters in conflict, sometimes getting pretty violent."
In addition to the new Looney Tunes cartoons, the HBO Max library includes a selection of the original classic shorts. The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts originally ran from 1930 to 1969. Since then, Warner Bros. has included the Looney Tunes characters in several movies and television shows. They are set to appear in theaters again alongside LeBron James in Space Jam: A New Legacy.
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