Would anyone like to see a CGI 'POPEYE' movie?

[Silvermoth]

When I was a lad I was fasinated by the octopus from the Popeye movie. If there's a CGI Popeye with an octopus I would watch it.

 

[Octoberist]

john cena as popeye! :0

 

[Lencho01]

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/...samurai-jack-dexter-lab-movie-animation-news/

Five Things We Learned From Genndy Tartakovsky About Popeye, Samurai Jack & The Future of Animation

Genndy Tartakovsky has amassed a passionate fanbase by creating the Cartoon Network programs Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Sym-Bionic Titan, and now he's made the leap to the big-screen with Hotel Transylvania. It's not quite the theatrical debut his audience was expecting, given that he's been long-attached to audacious projects like a Samurai Jack movie and a sequel to Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal entitled Power of the Dark Crystal. And his career is taking another surprising turn with his next project: directing a 3D animated feature adaptation of E.C. Segar's iconic comic strip hero Popeye. His new take on the sailor man is another example a burgeoning partnership with Sony, and as the L.A. Times reported, expect his Popeye to be as "artistic and unrealistic as possible."

While speaking to Moviefone on his promotional trek for Hotel Transylvania, Tartakosvky gave further insight into what fans can expect from his new Popeye interpretation, as well as provided updates on the status of the Samurai Jack film and the possibility of a Dexter's Lab movie.

1. Tartakovsky's Popeye is done in the style of Max Fleischer.

For me, it's the original early '36 to '40 range of the Fleischer Popeye cartoons. I think since they were based out of New York, it was very different. I don't want to say underground, but it was more racy, more edgy. And I think while everyone was warming up to Disney, Fleischer made huge marks in animation, with Popeye, Betty Boop and Superman. They were doing amazing stuff and for me it's the exaggeration and the silliness, the laughter, the movement, the physical comedy. And that's one thing I'm after for Popeye. It's the whole reason I agreed to do the feature; I said "If I'm going to do this, I want it ten times more physical and crazy than we did in Hotel and ten times more character." And [Sony] were like, "Alright." The funny thing is that CGI was designed to mimic reality, but I'm going to use this realistic tool in a completely different way.
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[terry78]

Well, with him starting this from the ground up, it will be an interesting project.

 

[TheVileOne]

My hope is that the success of Hotel Transylvania can give him some sort of traction on doing something with Samurai Jack.

 

[Octoberist]

It's funny how Popeye is a type of cartoon character who could only be created back in the early 20th Century. He couldn't be created now for kids.

Think about it, Popeye as a cartoon character is weird: He's an old, ugly sailor man with tattoos and smokes a pipe.

 

[terry78]

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This is gonna kick ass.

 

[Octoberist]

I'll say it again: Popeye is a strange character that can never be created in the 21st century. He's an ugly middle-aged sailor.

 

[Octoberist]

The animation is beautiful. It almost looks like stop-motion. They look like figurines being brought to life, and I think it's due to the lighting and the skin textures, to give each character that elastic quality.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Well, if anyone can make an ugly middle-aged sailor with tattoos appealing to kids in the 21st century I guess it's Genndy cause that animation test actually works quite well.

When does this come out?

 

[Lencho01]

I really like how different it looks.

Will This Eye-popping CG Animation Test Power Up Genndy Tartakovsky's Popeye ?

So when does this highly promising motion picture officially begin production? Well, as I stated earlier in this article, Sony has yet to lock a release date. In fact, the last time this studio updated its release schedule, Popeye had slipped from being a 2014 release to a 2015 release.

"I'm kind of hoping that the reaction from animation fans will be so loud and so strong that Sony will be eager to put Popeye into production," Genndy continued. "That way, once we finish working on Hotel Transylvania 2, we just move on over and begin working on Popeye. And then have that film out in theaters in a year or two."
Which -- you have to admit -- is a pretty bold move by Hollywood standards. But Popeye is clearly a passion project for Tartakovsky.



So if you like what you see in this Popeye proof-of-concept, why not help make Genndy's dream a reality by sharing this footage with a few Facebook friends? Or -- better yet -- tweet this story out so that Sony will then realize that there really is an audience out there for a movie whose title character says things like, "I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam."

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

That test footage is really good. I love Popeyet:

 

[terry78]

Eugene the Jeep ftw.

 

[Gabe99]

Cartoon Brew:
Sony’s Top Animation Exec Bob Osher Was Fired Today

The new head of Sony Pictures Digital Productions will be the group’s executive vice president Randy Lake. As part of an organizational restructuring, Sony Pictures Animation will no longer operate under the Digital Productions umbrella, and will be run independently by former DreamWorks producer Kristine Belson, who was hired last month. Meanwhile, the vfx arm Imageworks will be absorbed by the studio’s motion picture group.

Last year when The LEGO Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were approached by Sony to run its animation division, they turned down the offer, citing the talent drain at Sony Pictures Animation, and the low morale at Imageworks due to multiple subsidy-driven relocations to New Mexico and Vancouver, Canada. Osher’s cutthroat approach to operating the divisions had led to renewed efforts by employees to unionize Imageworks in 2012.

 

[terry78]

So this means what for Popeye now?

 

[Octoberist]

I think Popeye will be fine

 

[Boy Scout]

So this is happening?

 

[Lencho01]

Genndy Tartakovsky Exits Sony’s ‘Popeye’

 

[terry78]

****....I knew it.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

 

[Octoberist]

But now's focusing on an original project:

Right now, I’m off [Popeye] and moving on to the other one that we soft-announced, which is Can You Imagine? which is an original idea of my own and a very personal story. It was hard to let Popeye go, but that’s the business.

 

[green]

Whatever Sony...

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Well there went all my interest.

 

[Incrediblejeff]

Ugh

 

[PyroChamber]

Man, Sony just can't get their **** together can they?