... as we know it.
... [Dan] Aykroyd will voice Yogi, and Justin Timberlake could supply the voice of Yogi's constant companion, Boo Boo ...
We can only be grateful that Bill and Joe didn't live to see it happen ...
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I think Dan Akroyd might be pretty good as Yogi - but Justin Timberlake?!!! He was horrible in Shrek the Third.
Aw jeez....the CARTOON was crap. CGI will NOT make it better. I am totally missing this.
at least they didn't ask john k. to do it. That remake of Yogi was the worst crap animation ever. And not only not funny, but UNfunny.
The game Risk! AND Yogi Bear! Gee willikers! These studios are so god damn creative! What will they think of next?!
Pussies.
I would see it purely out of morbid curiosity.On Netflix. Nothing is sacred anymore.It sucks now and it will suck when done. Guaranteed.
Are there any decent writers in Hollywood anymore? How does this shite even get greenlit?
There are plenty of decent writers. The problem is that many of them are so used to this way of working that they've lost the ability to originate a voice in the same way writers in the past did, in other disciplines. It was called 'writing' back in the day namely because there used to be a group of intelligent people in the world who were called 'readers.'
What is considered 'writing' today in Hollywood is more about scripting the producers vision of what makes a successful round of focus groups and eventually a successful box office hit. It is not writing.
The only 'writing' creative success stories in Hollywood are the interdisciplinary individuals - writer/directors/producers/artists/actors who are smart enough to see the writing on the wall early and take on more experiences to leverage their vision through a process that does not have an opinion about how or in what form ideas are brought to the surface.
The WGA is the only entity in town devoted to the idea that writing is created in a vacuum. And they negotiate likewise.
And guess where that group still is - IN A VACUUM.
Many 'writers' today are in fact signing deals with publishers to back engineer into film by first publishing a 'book' of their 'writing', then mass marketing it in much the same way movies are marketed (only cheaper) with a specific demographic and franchise in mind, then using the green shoots of the start-up audience to tidy up the film rights - rights which were all already negotiated up front because the publisher is, surprise-surprise - owned by the same film company the 'writers' were unable to make headway with when the idea was in script form.
This route is quite popular right now with various writers and producers trying to sell series of books to your kids that are disguised as children's literature, when, in fact, they are just Barnes&Noble trojan horses designed to drag your ten-year-old to the box office to spend their allowance money on yet another franchise that feels remarkably like a J. K. Rowling spin-off.
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