Universal Working on "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" Remake

[Lencho01]

Tom Hardy. In Bane voice.

"Whoville! Take control. Take control of your city."

 

[<(o_o)>]

Now who do you want to voice the Grinch this time around? Carrey already tried to do the Boris Karloff impression, I'd want to switch up the vocals and make him not as goofy sounding. He still acts goofy as he does in the cartoon, but the voice would be a contrast.

Jack Nicholson would probably sound great as The Grinch.

 

[redhawk23]

Nothing is new.

This kind of goes beyond that vague maxim however.

 

[Incrediblejeff]

They should make "The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat" instead.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Where it's just twenty minutes of the grinch trolling the cat in that hats sh**? I'd watch that movie on two screens simultaneously.

 

[ross2287]

Tom Hardy. In Bane voice.

"Whoville! Take control. Take control of your city."

Jack Nicholson would probably sound great as The Grinch.

Yes to both!

Where it's just twenty minutes of the grinch trolling the cat in that hats sh**? I'd watch that movie on two screens simultaneously.

I'd go broke watching that movie.

 

[Incrediblejeff]

So it's settled,We want The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat starring Jack Nicholson and Tom Hardy.Make it happen Universal.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

They should make "The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat" instead.

That's a great idea.

 

[Lord]

Another remake? It's not as if the last one was such a disaster, it had bad reviews, but it was also the highest grossing film of the year. Watched it as a kid and liked at the time

 

[Schlosser85]

Tom Hardy. In Bane voice.

"Whoville! Take control. Take control of your city."

Hardy's random enough to totally be down for it.

We'd get some pic of Hardy sitting at some cafe somewhere, reading How the Grinch Stole Christmas with this expression of intense concentration. If that alone isn't worth it, I don't know what is.

Or if you really want some crazy actor commitment....Daniel Day-Lewis. He'd probably buy a little dog and put reindeer horns on it and go live up in the mountains for a while.

 

[Senator Pleasury]

Reboot, remake but not a different version? I understand there are thousands of versions of Dickens's "A Christmas Carol." And some of them are really good, classics. Yet they kept doing new ones.

 

[MrMaooz]

Michael Bay, please.

Nuff said.

 

[sueb1863]

Add me to the "But why?" camp. This story's been done.

My guess is they want to give it the Lorax/ Horton CGI animation treatment, but they should do it as a half hour TV show instead of a feature, there just isn't enough there to stretch it out to feature length. Maybe if they paired it with another Seuss story that hasn't been done yet, he wrote dozens of books.

 

[MrMaooz]

Remake Set for November 2017 Release

The studio also revealed dates for two other Illumination Entertainment toons: a new version of Dr. Seuss&#8217; How The Grinch Stole Christmas (November 17, 2017) and Untitled Illumination Project 2016 2 (December 21, 2016).

Universal and director Ron Howard previously brought a live-action version of Dr. Seuss&#8217;classic Christmas tale to life in 2000 with star Jim Carrey. Director Chuck Jones&#8217; original animated TV cartoon produced in 1966 remains a holiday staple. The new animated Grinch will be produced Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy (exec produced by Audrey Geisel, the 90-year-old widow of the late Dr. Seuss himself, the beloved author Theodor Geisel). The picture will be directed by Pete Candeland from an adaptation by Michael LeSieur (You, Me and Dupree). Candeland&#8217;s credits include All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 and Harmonix: The Beatles &#8212; Rock Band. Hope these guys can pull off a good Grinch.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/despicable-me-3-release-date-dr-seuss-how-the-grinch-stole-christmas-universal/

 

[Octoberist]

Does Rock Band count in the director's filmography/resume?

 

[Teelie]

I don't know what their intent is for the animation. About the only thing I'd do is clean up/modernize the existing animation a bit.

I also wonder what they'll do or change to make this film justified from the previous cartoon and live action adaptations.

 

[Drizzle]

Crazy to think that this will be coming out 17 years after the Jim Carrey movie.

Does Rock Band count in the director's filmography/resume?

To be fair it's a more impressive credit than All Dogs Go To Heaven 2.

 

[titansupes]

Crazy to think that this will be coming out 17 years after the Jim Carrey movie.

Geez...

 

[AnneFan]

Right? The Jim Carrey version is awesome.

It is, one of my favourite Christmas movies. And wow, it came out in 2000. That's ages. It still holds up well though.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Cumberbatch is The Grinch, y'all know it.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

He could possibly top Karloff with dat voice.

 

[terry78]

All the noise, noise, noise, noise!

I could actually see Cumberbatch saying that. And I despise all the random fan casts dude gets in every other flick, but he would actually work for this voiceover.

 

[Wolfwood]

Crazy to think that this will be coming out 17 years after the Jim Carrey movie.



To be fair it's a more impressive credit than All Dogs Go To Heaven 2.

And, according to IMDB, he didn't even direct All Dogs Go To Heaven 2. So... Yeah. Though he has plenty of animation experience, he's pretty much an unknown when it comes to directing.

 

[Drizzle]

Cumberbatch is The Grinch, y'all know it.

As the Grinch descends on Whoville....

"I AM FIRE. I AM.....DEATH."

*Cut to black*

Directed by Calvin Candyland

 

[Donnie Darko]

Call me when we get a feature-length live-action Go Dog Go!