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Looney
Tunes: Back In Action Expected Release Date U.S. :
Thanksgiving 2003 (Subject
to change)
Expected Release Date U.K. :
Late 2003 (subject to change)
Expected Rental Release Date :
Looney
Tunes: Back In Action Cast : Brendan
Fraser, Jenna Elfman
Director : Joe Dante
Looney Tunes: Back In Action Written By : John
Recqua and Glenn Ficarra and Larry Doyle (rewrite)
Producers :
Other Known Crew Members :
Looney
Tunes: Back In Action Based On : The
hit cartoon series of shorts from Warner Brothers Animation.
Premise/Synopsis :
Genre : Comedy/ Live Action/ Animation (Traditional)
Looney
Tunes: Back In Action Official Site : LoonyTunes.com
Fan Sites :
Looney
Tunes: Back In Action Trailer :
Looney Tunes - Back In
Action Movie Trailer Quicktime Hi-Res
Released By : Warner Brothers
Looney
Tunes: Back In Action Status : Casting
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Looney
Tunes: Back In Action Updated :
Tuesday
11th November 2003: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
The
premiere of Loony Toons: Back in Action has taken place in
Los Angeles.
For a report and pictures click
here.
Tuesday 11th November 2003: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
Review posted by Dean Kish for Looney Tunes: Back In
Action
Click Here
Saturday
8th November 2003: Looney Tunes: Back in Action Update:
The trailer for Looney Tunes: Back in Action has been
released today.
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Wednesday
5th November 2003: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
A number of stills from Looney Tunes: Back in Action have
surfaced online.
To view them click
here.
Sunday
12th October 2003: Looney Tunes: Back in Action Update:
The trailer for Looney Tunes: Back in Action has been
released today.
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Friday
10th October 2003: Looney Tunes: Back in Action Update:
The trailer for director Joe Dante's Looney Tunes: Back in
Action, starring
Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Joan Cusack, Heather
Locklear
and Timothy Dalton, has appeared online. To view it click
here.
Friday
26th September 2003: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
The official site for Looney Tunes: Back In Action has fully
opened up Click
Here
Sunday
22nd September
2003: Looney Tunes: Back in Action
A new movie poster for Looney Tunes Back in Action
has been released today
Click
Here
Wednesday
17th September 2003: Looney Tunes Back in Action Update:
Animation World magazine has been speaking to animation director
Eric Goldberg about the status of the new Looney Tunes movie.
To read about what he revealed click here.
Wednesday 27th August
2003: Looney Tunes: Back in Action
New posters for Looney Tunes: Back in Action have been
released today
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Saturday
2nd August 2003: Looney Tunes - Back In Action Update:
The movie trailer for Looney Tunes - Back In Action
has been released today.
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Action Movie Trailer Quicktime Hi-Res
Saturday
7th June 2003: Looney Tunes Update:
The movie trailer for Looney Tunes has been released
today.
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Movie Trailer WMP Hi-Res
Thursday 29th May 2003: Looney Tunes: Back In Action
Four New posters for Looney Tunes: Back In Action have
been released today
Monday 27th April 2003: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
Scenes are currently being shot in California that will
focus on Pepe LePew and his French cat love.
Thursday 20th March 2003: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
Rumours are circulating that one of the many cameos in
Looney Tunes: Back In Action will be from Christopher Lloyd.
Monday 17th March 2003: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
Are there problems on the Looney Tunes movie? Word reaches
us that Joe Dante has suspended filming will he rejigs the
script.
Monday
3rd March 2003: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
A bunch of photo's from Looney Tunes: Back In Action has appeared
onlineClick
Here
Monday
24th February 2003: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
Latino Review scored some great new pics from Looney Tunes:
Back In Action Click
Here
Monday
13th January 2003: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
FX Artist Tom Woodruff Jr. has been talking about the
finale of Looney Tunes: Back In Action "We went into
meetings [with Joe Dante] because the monsters that they chose
for the end sequence in Looney Tunes... they were trying to
get a handful of recognizable, iconic 1950s style movie monsters.
The ones we ended up getting to do were Metaluna Mutant ("This
Island Earth"), "Man from Planet X", which
I think is a totally obscure little character but really came
off cool, and "Robot Monster"...We got to be onset
with all those characters, Bill Malone had Robbie the Robot
("Forbidden Planet") there and the guys from KNB
FX did a Triffid (1962's "Day of the Triffids")
and some Daleks ("Doctor Who"). It was a couple
week of great set stuff going on".
Friday
3rd January 2003: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
Warner Brothers
have released a whole bunch of images from films that they
are releasing in 2003. Here we have our first look at the
part animation, part live action film Looney Tunes: Back In
Action starring Brendan Fraser and directed by Gremlins' Joe
Dante.Click
Here
Saturday
16th November 2002: Looney Tunes: Back in Action:
Joe Dante has been talking about his upcoming Looney Tunes
movie "I'm just trying to marry movie icons. These guys
are older than any of us. We've all grown up with them and
they have this multigenerational appeal. Even though they've
had some hard times and periods where they were less active
than others, the old cartoons were always in circulation,
so there's always been a fan base for these character. You
can't be entirely two dimensional when you're putting them
into situations where they're lit and where there are shadows.
You'll see us sometimes sticking a white ball into the shot
at the end. It shows the animators where the light's coming
from and which side of the character's going to have modeling
or shadowing. You can go overboard on it and make them look
kind of squishy, which we don't want to do, but there has
to be an attempt to try to put them into the environment.
So, it's essentially flat animation. It's certainly nothing
like CGI. But, we do try to give them a certain shape with
shadows and stuff and that's basically the difference I think
between the way this cartoon looks and the way the actual
original cartoons look. Our art director is a guy named Bill
Brzeski who did the 'Stuart Little' movies and the trick here
is to try to make a movie that feels like a Looney Tune movie.
When I did the 'Gremlins' movies, we discovered that you couldn't
just take these weird characters and stick them out on the
corner of Fifth and Main and expect them to look like they
belong there. So, the movie has been stylized around what
I would call the Looney Tune look. The colors that we use
in some of the backgrounds, the desert locations that we chose,
were all chosen to specifically replicate certain kind of
cartoon looks. So, it's a normal movie. It's shot like a regular
movie but we hope that we stylized the backgrounds to the
point where Bugs and Daffy look a little more at home. It's
the same reason why the Marx Brothers are still popular. It's
totally anarchic. He's got a certain code of honor. He doesn't
heckle anybody unless they've done something bad to him and
then, look out. And he's always the coolest guy in the room.
There's a scene where the water tower falls over and somebody
said, 'Oh, the Animaniacs live in there.' But I think we decided
that we wanted to keep it pure. There was some talk. Warner
Brothers now owns almost every cartoon character known to
man because they've got MGM, they've got Hanna Barbara. They've
got everybody and so there was some talk about putting in
Tom and Jerry or putting in Droopy or putting in a couple
of characters and we realized that although we have the ability
to do that, it was sort of taking away from the specialness
of the Looney Tunes gang. And God knows there's plenty of
them. So, our efforts to shoehorn in all of these characters
in various places of the movie, there's still some we don't
even know where we're going to put them."
Monday
11th November 2002: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
Matthew Lillard has told Sci-Fi
Wire that he appears in the upcomg Looney Tunes: Back
In Action. "I play me talking with [an animated] Shaggy,
so it's kind of funny," Lillard said in an interview.
"He's giving me the business, and I'm giving it right
back."
Tuesday
5th November 2002: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
Image has appeared online of director Joe Dante on the
set of the currently lensing Looney Tunes Back In Action.
Click Here To View
Wednesday
30th October 2002: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
Joblo.com
have had the chance to visit the LA set of Looney Tunes: Back
In Action. The site also has managed to bag interviews with
Jenna Elfman and Brendan Fraser. Hit the link to go take a
look.
Monday
28th October 2002: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
More news about the cameo appearences in Looney Tunes: Back
In Action. Fangoria
report that Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet will make
an alongside Tales from the Crypt producer Robert Parigi.
Other characters to appear will be the Daleks from Dr. Who,
seed pods from the original Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
movie, a seven-man puppeted giant triffid from The Day Of
The Triffids, the Metaluna Mutant from This Island Earth and
Roger Corman, who will play a film director who is making
the current Batman movie for Warner Brothers.
Monday
21st October 2002: Looney Tunes Back In Action Update:
Filming on the Joe Dante Looney Tunes movie was in South Central
LA at a French Cafe where Pepe Le Pew steals a scene or is
that empties?
Friday
4th October 2002: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
Dark Horizons scored another scoop report from the set of
the currently filming Joe Dante movie Looney Tunes Back In
Action: "Tuesday October 1st they continued the scene
at Freemont Street where we actually saw Jeff Gordon's race
car drive through Freemont street and crash into a street
vendor in the middle of the experience. We also saw Brendan
grab Daffy from the arms of show girls and run through Freemont
Street. It was 52 degrees and we were all freezing including
Brendan Fraser who kept on putting on his jacket in between
takes. It's suppose to be Summer so everyone had to take off
their jackets while filming and as soon as they yelled cut
everyone ran to get their jackets".
Friday
4th October 2002: Looney Tunes: Back In Action Update:
Dark Horizons scored a great set report from an insider on
the currently filming Looney Tunes Back In Action "On
Monday September third I worked on the new Brendan Fraser
film which also stars Jenna Elfman, Timothy Dalton, and Steve
Martin. Brendan Fraser was the only principle on set. It was
filmed in Las Vegas at the Union Plaza. A scene I saw has
Daffy and Brendan run out of the casino and hop in a car,
Daffy and Brendan fight over the keys to the car and the car
just falls apart so Brendan and Daffy run across the street
to the Freemont Street Experience. Then Yosemite Sam runs
out of the casino and takes over race car driver Jeff Gordon's
car and races through the Freemont Street Experience. Daffy
Duck was a doll and a white ball so the actors and extras
knew where to look. And Yosemite Sam was a wooden cut out
and a white ball. A Warner Bros. Executive (Jenna Elfman)
fires Daffy Duck and has him thrown out by a security guard
(Brendan Fraser). Daffy goes wild which leads to a chase scene
around Warner Bros., but Daffy gets away. Brendan gets fired
and then goes home followed by Daffy. Brendan finds out that
his dad's in trouble so he goes to Vegas to help and Daffy
tags along for the ride. Meanwhile back at Warner Bros. Bugs
realizes that he misses Daffy and convinces Jenna Elfman to
give him his job back so they both go to Vegas to find Daffy"
Tuesday
August 20th 2002:Looney Tunes Back In Action Update:
Joe dante has been talking about the plot (do we need one
for this movie?) for the upcoming Lonney Tunes movie "
Bugs and Daffy work at a movie studio. Daffy quits because
he's tired of Bugs getting all the favorable treatment. He
hooks up with a stuntman who is also fired the same day due
to hanging around with Daffy too much, and gets involved in
his adventure because his father was a secret spy on the trail
of a mythical blue diamond. Daffy, of course, wants to go
on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy
back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroin have to
go out and try to bring him back. It takes place over several
continents and it's quite a big deal."
Friday
16th August 2002: Looney Tunes Casting
News
There have been a few additions to the cast of Joe Dante's
Looney Tunes: Back In Action, the live action movie from Warner
Brothers. We reported earlier on in the week that Jenna Elfman
and Heather Locklear will appear, but yesterday another cast
member was announced through Variety.
Timothy Dalton will play Brendan Fraser's dad in the film.
Dalton is probably best known for his role as James Bond in
The Living Daylights and License To Kill. Looney Tunes: Back
In Action will be set in Hollywood, Las Vegas and Africa as
Fraser's character searches for his father and the mythical
Blue Diamond.
13th August 2002: Looney Tunes: Back
In Action Update:
Jenna Elfman has joined the cast of
Looney Tunes: Back In Action. She will star opposite Brendan
Fraser in the film directed by Joe Dante. Dark
Horizons add that scenes set around a casino will be shot
on the Warners lot during the latter half of this week.
12th June 2002: Back In Action (Looney Tunes Movie) Update:
Some news on Joe Dante's proposed Looney
Tunes film from Warner Brothers, The film's current title
is Back In Action and Brendan Fraser has apparently been cast
in the lead role. The film's plot is being described as the
following: "the animated Looney Tunes characters,
which include Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Taz and Tweety, move
through a live-action world that takes them from Hollywood
to Las Vegas and into Africa in search of the Fraser character's
missing father and the mythical Blue Diamond." The
quote is from Daily Variety.
11/4/02
The Hollywood Reporter have stated that Warner Brothers are
to release a live action/ animated movie based on their famous
Looney Tunes cartoons. The film, to be directed by Joe Dante
(Gremlins), will feature all of your favourite characters
like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck etc. The screenplay has been written
by John Recqua and Glenn Ficarra (Cats and Dogs) with a rewrite
by Larry Doyle (The Simpsons).
The film will mix the live action with animation (by Warner
Brothers Animation hous) in the same way as movies like Who
Framed Roger Rabbit, Cats & Dogs and Joe Dante's own Small
Soldiers.
The film is scheduled for a Thanksgiving 2003 release.
More
news on Untitled Lonney Tunes:Back In Action as we get it!
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