Jonny Quest is Coming!

[TrueBeliever]

They'd probably take their friendship/relationship through a route similar to Harry Potter and... Whatshername.

...I'm not really a Potter fan, sorry. But I've heard all the "will they kiss" stuff, and SNL brought up a good point with their skit so...

 

[The Kid]

Another good point. If this movie spawns a franchise, Jessie, will show up at one point and hook up with Jonny.

That too.

I like that dynamic. Johnny will like Jessie but to play a macho he-man he'll act like he doesn't. Just like a lot of us did back in the day. good times.

Tom Sawyer ftw

 

[Cmill216]

They'd probably take their friendship/relationship through a route similar to Harry Potter and... Whatshername.

...I'm not really a Potter fan, sorry. But I've heard all the "will they kiss" stuff, and SNL brought up a good point with their skit so...

It's an amazingly cliche dramatic technique, and yet it never fails to hook in the teenage girls. So if I was a studio exec, I'd be working that tension like an illegal alien stripper.

 

[TrueBeliever]

Lol!

 

[Leto Atrides]

I mean, Jonny IS a young teenage boy. What do you think he's thinking about 24/7? Mummies? Robots? Lizard people?

He's not a teenager, he's 11, so yes.

Johnny Quest was the peak, and sort of a lost hurrah, of the old pulp Tom Swift boy adventurer stuff. They had a young kid, the audience's age, who goes on all sorts of adventures and can do everything. His dad is a cool scientist, he has a bodyguard/dad's friend/uncle figure who's a cool badass. He goes into space and to Egypt and the Himalayas and sees dinosaurs and all the other **** that's cool when you're in elementary school. Any foolhardiness is tempered by his wise/nerdy friend.

I just think it's sad to see them compromise that last bit of that genre, as things like Hardy Boys went down the ****ter in the 70s. The way Cmill lays things out can work on it's own terms, but that's not the point IMO. I wouldn't want to see this be a legit for-everyone action movie. I'm sure other people would feel differently, but and that's fine, but this is where I'm coming from. I honestly wouldn't even go see the movie, I'd just want it to be done right for the original intended audience for the whole thing.

Edit: I realize the irony of this whole rant about the death of the boy adventurer and my avatar.

 

[The Kid]

It made me want to watch the first half hour of Last Crusade actually. Now that is probably how Spielberg would have handled this...

 

[Cmill216]

He's not a teenager, he's 11, so yes.

60s Jonny? Yes. But that's not the only Jonny. Jonny Quest is a franchise with several incarnations through multiple television series and comic books. Though, yes, it's most identified by the 60s show, I don't know if we can definitely say that's the approach they'll take. For all we know, they may mesh elements from the 60s and the 80s/90s.

The way Cmill lays things out can work on it's own terms, but that's not the point IMO. I wouldn't want to see this be a legit for-everyone action movie. I'm sure other people would feel differently, but and that's fine, but this is where I'm coming from.

And neither would I. That would be completely missing what the show was all about. In essence, Jonny was the young Indiana Jones, and I think if you still keep that spirit whilst taking the time to utilize other elements to bring in a wider audience it would work. I'm not saying he should be this 18-year-old kid dealing with mature issues and whatnot. He should be a young teen; the kind of kid who instead of dealing with homework and dates is running around in hidden temples and deciphering hieroglyphics. That's what Jonny is to me.

 

[Catman]

He's not a teenager, he's 11, so yes.

It depends on the interpretation they'll use. If they use Real Adventures as source material then he'll be a teenager. If not, he'll be 11 yrs old.

 

[The Question]

Not really. That'd be way out of his character. Hadji's always been the stereotypical calm, meditating Indian kid who was Jonny's voice of reason.

I always thought that Hadji, while being all spiritual and zen and stuff, should be the one to really take after Dr. Quest. Johnny's into sports and emulating Race, and Hadji's the one who spends most of his free time reading and being all intelectual, and is the one to think his way out of things. Unlike Dr. Quest, he's not really a scientist. He's much more a student of the humanities. Literature, history, theology, etc. But he's similar to him in terms of level of inteligence, if not in the same fields. Basically, I see him as the kid who has a book in his hand everwhere he goes and alphabetized his book collection when he was seven.

 

[Cmill216]

I always thought that Hadji, while being all spiritual and zen and stuff, should be the one to really take after Dr. Quest. Johnny's into sports and emulating Race, and Hadji's the one who spends most of his free time reading and being all intelectual, and is the one to think his way out of things. Unlike Dr. Quest, he's not really a scientist. He's much more a student of the humanities. Literature, history, theology, etc. But he's similar to him in terms of level of inteligence, if not in the same fields. Basically, I see him as the kid who has a book in his hand everwhere he goes and alphabetized his book collection when he was seven.

Absolutely.

My thought was always that Jonny would sometimes feel a bit left out because Hadji and Jessie seemed to be more in tune with Dr. Quest than even he. And if Jessie were there Hadji would often side with her on matters because the two thought more similarly.

 

[The Kid]

Yeah he's the steryotypical super smart indian sidekick but I don't know whether that's more a reflection of the 60s or today since that's still sort of how indian people are depicted in the media. I honestly don't think they're offended by it though. it's not like he has some lame super powers while everyone else gets to reshape the earth, control wind, and shoot fire.

 

[The Question]

Absolutely.

My thought was always that Jonny would sometimes feel a bit left out because Hadji and Jessie seemed to be more in tune with Dr. Quest than even he. And if Jessie were there Hadji would often side with her on matters because the two thought more similarly.

And, of course, he tries to bond with Race, but Race keeps everyone at an arm's length, even his own daughter, because he's ex-CIA and that's what they do.

Yeah he's the steryotypical super smart indian sidekick but I don't know whether that's more a reflection of the 60s or today since that's still sort of how indian people are depicted in the media. I honestly don't think they're offended by it though.

Well, I don't think he should be particularly skilled with electronics, computers, or any of that. He should be, as I said, more of a student of the humanities. Art, literature, history, theology, and so on. But he should be the "smart one" in that, while Johnny solves his problems through fisticuffs and reling on his instincts, Hadji relies on being clever and avoiding danger when possible.

 

[Cmill216]

it's not like he has some lame :heart: super powers while everyone else gets to reshape the earth, control wind, and shoot fire.

Well, I don't think he should be particularly skilled with electronics, computers, or any of that. He should be, as I said, more of a student of the humanities. Art, literature, history, theology, and so on. But he should be the "smart one" in that, while Johnny solves his problems through fisticuffs and reling on his instincts, Hadji relies on being clever and avoiding danger when possible.

Jonny, the brave adventerous one.
Jessie, the brainy scientific one.
Hadji, the spiritual philosophical one.

 

[Eros]

It depends on the interpretation they'll use. If they use Real Adventures as source material then he'll be a teenager. If not, he'll be 11 yrs old.

I suggest they go with the 90s Real adventures version, vastly better then the 60s show, also very very creepy at times. I remember it had alot of conspiracy theories to.

 

[Catman]

yea, Real Adventures is the best version. The original `60s show and the `80s version are good but a little too simple, you know? Real Adventures added a little more to the franchise.

 

[The Question]

Jonny, the brave adventerous one.
Jessie, the brainy scientific one.
Hadji, the spiritual philosophical one.

Well, I wouldn't say he's simply spiritual/philisophical. I'd describe him as "Scholarly." And, yes, that includes spirituality and philosiphy. I just don't want him to be the steriotypical mystical Asian guy. I mean, he is that, but there should be more to him.

 

[terry78]

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Toby Danger from Freakazoid! Hilarious.

 

[JackBauer]

I've always seen Hadji as, IN A CERTAIN WAY, the Spock to Johnny's Kirk.

 

[Catman]

what about the plot? should the movie be about Dr. Zin killing Jonny's mom? Although...wasn't it revealed later on that she was alive and just became evil? Someone refresh my memory.

 

[Cmill216]

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Toby Danger from Freakazoid! Hilarious.

"No, Toby. They were a byproduct of the meltdown of your adopted sister Sandra's hometown."

"It's okay, Dr. D. I didn't lose a hometown, I gained a family!"

 

[Compi716]

I want to see Jonny Quest like this:

 

[TrueBeliever]

Toby Danger from Freakazoid! Hilarious.

"Just lemme throw a barrel at it!"

Lol, I've never seen this before... It made my night.

 

[Leto Atrides]

Real Adventures added a little more to the franchise.

Questworld?

 

[Speedball]

I want to see Jonny Quest like this:

LOL!
They should have Rusty Venture in the movie.

 

[Darkness Falls]

big fan of the 90's cartoon
hope that is how they handle it