@Satsuki:
So they're remaking Blazing Saddles into . . . . an animated, family-friendly story about samurai cats and dogs:
https://movieweb.com/blazing-samurai-animated-blazing-saddles-remake/?fbclid=IwAR3Knqj4ESaOYrXK3jiSBX41ouoBGj0lP-NwcasbQjPOFpnxeH6clJ7c75U
I REALLY don't know if this is re-doable. Even if Rob Minkoff (Lion King) is producing. Does Mel Brooks know about this?
Well, to try and be on the positive side.
1. Samurai and Western films have long since been interchanged with each other for remakes. The most famous example being Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven, both of which were great but very different films.
2. Using animal people is a GREAT way to do allegory for kids without getting into the nitty gritty of racism/sexism/ etc. Zootopia was a great example of this.
3. Kung Fu Panda exists.
That said, those are all super high bars for any project to meet and/or match, and this is a studio that hasn't done anything animated before, and none of the names attached ring any bells as heavyweights in the field, so there's not a whole lot of reason to expect much from it at this time.
I'd say right now expect something less liek the above mentioned thigns, and something more like Gnomeo and Juliet, something getting made purely on the pitch of the title.
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@KageKageKing:
The Rise of TMNT instead.
As a lifelong TMNT fan that collected all the comics up to a point and watched ALL the shows… including the live action one...
Rise of the TMNT LOOKS awful. I haven't watched a single episode so I am making zero judgements about the quality of either the start or how it got later, but the character designs and animation style just LOOK offputting and made me go "You know what, I've had enough turtles in my life, I think I can skip this one unless I hear good things about it."
Until your post I had hear nothing about it. Not good, not bad, NOTHING. And its ratings are BAAAAAAAAD. Like the 2012 series pulled in 3.00 rating its first season, and 2.50 ratings the seasons after that, then sliding to 1.00 by its final season... Rise at the start of season 1 was pulling in .95-.50 ratings, which are pretty weak... and by the end of the season was pulling in .05 ratings. Not .5 but .05. I don't know what kind of horrendous timeslot or lack of advertising they did to manage that, but that is AWFUL. (The 2011 Thundercats toon was cancelled for getting ratings in the 1.5 range.) Season 2 seems to have followed suit with .5 bleeding into .1 and .05, and those are insanely bad "cancel this right now and just put the rest out online or in one afternoon" numbers. There is NO arguing numbers that bad.
I have to assume those numbers also mean they are not selling any merch, which is also all-important with the Turtles.
it's probably a better bet to let the franchise rest a year or two and then take another stab at rebooting it again, they didn't really give it any breathing room between 2012 and Rise, whereas all previous versions have had a couple years between them.
Spongebob meanwhile in its 11ths season was still getting 1.50-2.20 ratings for new episodes, consistently one of the top 15 rated shows of the day with its new episodes (up against ratings juggernaut of wrestling!) and thats WITH 200 episode behind it and nonstop reruns,, so... that decision makes perfect sense.