CBR: "Popeye" to go 3D with Sony

**CBR News** · 03-22-2010, 11:13 PM

"Popeye" returns as an all-CGI film from Sony. Avi Arad is set to produce the film which will be made by Sony Pictures Animation. Popeye stared in a long running series of animated shorts and a 1980 musical.

Full article here.

**thwhtGuardian** · 03-22-2010, 11:14 PM

Did they learn nothing from the last pop eye movie?

**Acecool** · 03-22-2010, 11:18 PM

Holy crap, this shocked me about as much as learning that a tea partier was white.

**Bricolo** · 03-23-2010, 12:05 AM

Curse You Paul Reiser!!!!!!

**AdamYJ** · 03-23-2010, 06:18 AM

Great! I love Popeye!

**Jason Michael** · 03-23-2010, 06:29 AM

Originally Posted by thwhtGuardian

Did they learn nothing from the last pop eye movie?

What should they have learned that they apparently have not? And which last Popeye movie? The Robert Altman film from 1980, or Popeye's Voyage: The Quest For Pappy from 2004?
I didn't see enough info in this story to draw any conclusion as to what they may or may not do wrong.

Jason

**Ned McDodd** · 03-23-2010, 07:06 AM

i'm little bit surprised about this announcement. I thought the popeye franchise was quite dead, but i'm interested how it will look like.

**AdamYJ** · 03-23-2010, 07:41 AM

Originally Posted by Ned McDodd

i'm little bit surprised about this announcement. I thought the popeye franchise was quite dead, but i'm interested how it will look like.

The same could be said for Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry or Mickey Mouse. They've all been dormant for considerable periods of time. The truth is that the real classics never stay dead forever.

**Jettison** · 03-23-2010, 08:41 AM

Popeye rules! Hope they make it violent....at least new TMNT violent....

**Thad** · 03-23-2010, 09:19 AM

The Fleischer Popeye shorts are some of the best cartoons ever produced.

That said: a Popeye movie is a bad idea. Popeye is PERFECT for 8-minute shorts, but can't sustain a 90-minute story.

Then, of course, there are the concerns about smoking and violence -- any new Popeye is likely to be pretty toned-down from his roots.

**thwhtGuardian** · 03-23-2010, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by Jason Michael

What should they have learned that they apparently have not? And which last Popeye movie? The Robert Altman film from 1980, or Popeye's Voyage: The Quest For Pappy from 2004?
I didn't see enough info in this story to draw any conclusion as to what they may or may not do wrong.

Jason

Have you not seen the terrible robin williams popeye movie? He's a great character for shorts...but it gets old after 8 min.

And more violent? Seriously? Popeye isn't about violence.

**AdamYJ** · 03-23-2010, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by thwhtGuardian

And more violent? Seriously? Popeye isn't about violence.

Except for the cartoony fistfights. Like when he punches an alligator into the air and it lands as a set of luggage.

lol. I always loved that gag.

**Jettison** · 03-23-2010, 04:51 PM

Popeye solves problems with his fists.....what's not violent about that?

**thwhtGuardian** · 03-23-2010, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by Jettison

Popeye solves problems with his fists.....what's not violent about that?

But it was never graphic, nor should it be. The action was their for gags not for the sake of being violent, if they made it made more realistic it would sort of ruin the whole point.

**Jettison** · 03-24-2010, 08:31 AM

I never said realistic violence....but even so, are you going to tell me that a Grindhouse style Popeye wouldn't be sick as f**k?

Anyhow, I just really hope they don't make it moral and NON violent...like Popeye is this grizzled sailor, and through the course of the movie he opens his heart and learns to be sensitive. I want to see him beat the shi* out of Alligators so bad they turn into luggage.

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