
After Speed Racer’s opening weekend pulled a disappointing $18.5 million at the box office (not $20.2 million, as widely reported), people are asking: What’s next in the line of live-action, CGI-heavy remakes of kids’ TV shows? The answer may surprise you—okay, given the picture at the top of this post it probably won’t, but in a year or two it might make you look back on Speed Racer with a certain degree of nostalgia. The Weinstein Company has announced plans to distribute a Fraggle Rock movie. The project will be written and directed by the same creative team behind Hoodwinked, a movie that earned decidedly mixed reviews on its 2006 release.
Not to put down Fraggle Rock, but it seems like the kid’s show remake people are fast running out of material. Unless you go with complete obscurities like Fireball XL5, the only way to find new shows is to keep moving down the demographic staircase. The Flintstones was considered family fare in the Sixties; Speed Racer was aimed more specifically at car-crazy 10-year-olds. Fraggle Rock played to a set a year or two younger. Based on this trend, it’s safe to say that somewhere in Hollywood, a desperate scriptwriter is pitching the concept for a feature-length Teletubbies movie that will be all over the theatres late in 2012.




















3 comments
You know, I always thought it was a shame that they cancelled Fraggle Rock before I started doing drugs.
And now that I stopped, they make a movie. Bastards.
“Down at Fraggle Rock.”
Oh, how I look forward to this one.
i love fraggle rock! this is going to be awesome!! i wonder if eonline has any coverage about this? they usually have some great ones!
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