# Reinvent your childhood cartoons into live action **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 31, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-your-childhood-cartoons-into-live-action/178771 "2003-05-31T14:29:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-your-childhood-cartoons-into-live-action/178771/21 "2003-06-01T22:32:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\*I can’t believe that nobody said– > > YO JOE! > > It’s a natural. Do it up James Bond style, & it’s a sure hit. \*\* No! No! No! James Bond?!? No way. Any movie based on the cartoon would have to feature guns that fire lasers instead of bullets, pilots who always eject before the plane crashes, cheezy plots, non lethal weaponry. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-your-childhood-cartoons-into-live-action/178771/22 "2003-06-01T22:58:23Z")
**The Wacky Races** , with Jim Carey as Dick Dastardly, Reese Witherspoon as Penelope Pitstop, and Kelsey Grammer as Professor Pat Pending. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-your-childhood-cartoons-into-live-action/178771/23 "2003-06-02T05:37:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Marley23 \* > \*\*Alright, so every attempt to bring a cartoon to life as a movie has been forgettable, if not awful. So sue me, I grew up on Danger Mouse, and I like the idea. I don’t know who’d be right to play DM- who do you like, **SolGrundy**? \*\* I was actually kind of halfway serious about a Danger Mouse movie. If it were done correctly, that is. Which it never would be. Danger Mouse, Penfold, and Baron Greenback would all be CG, of course, but the rest of the cast would be human. And it would be especially cool if Stiletto and Colonel K were animatronic, or CG-ified versions of a real raven and walrus. The cartoon used real photographs of London, heavily stylized, for backgrounds, so it wouldn’t be that much of a stretch to have animated characters over real backgrounds. For the voices, I don’t know who the current British actors are. Hopefully they’d get real voice actors instead of big-name celebrities trying to do the voices. It would be cool if Judi Densch could reprise her role as M from the Bond movies, though. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-your-childhood-cartoons-into-live-action/178771/24 "2003-06-02T05:46:53Z")
I’d still be on board for that. You can’t have too much of Vitamin D(ench). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-your-childhood-cartoons-into-live-action/178771/25 "2003-06-02T06:30:40Z")
First offk, casting: Lion-O: Peter Krause Cheetara:Famke Janssen Panthro: Ving Rhames Tygra:Jim Carrey Wilykit:dunno Wilykat:dunno Snarf(voice):Jim Carrey Mumm-ra: Christian Bale Vulture-Man:Paul Giamatti Monkian: dunno Slythe:Joe Pantaliano Amok:dunno ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-your-childhood-cartoons-into-live-action/178771/26 "2003-06-02T06:32:24Z")
A live action Thundercats would rock. The plot would be simple. Thunderra blows up, they land on 3rd Earth. They set up new Thunderra. Mumm-ra tries to kill them. Good guys win in the end. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-your-childhood-cartoons-into-live-action/178771/27 "2003-06-02T09:17:58Z")
The Return of the Rescue Rangers New story and art concepts by Tim Burton, written by J. Michael Straczynski. Directed by Ridley Scott. (Hey, it’ll never get filmed. I so I might as well cast whoever the hell I _want_ 🙂 ) Five years from now—and ten years since the presumed death of Dale in a catastrophic mission that heralded the end of the Rangers—the surviving Rangers are forced to join together once more to solve a mystery that resurrects old feuds, old loves…and questions the nature of civilization itself, and what it really means to be “human.” Bonus plot points? Chip & Gadget “shipper” action (Which, with Burton and Straczynski writing, actually builds to a satisfying conclusion…er, no double entandre intended), Monterey Jack is forced to reuse the training he received as a sniper in Laos, and Chip’s voice is retconned so that he can be _Seiyuu’d_ by Nathan Fillion. Not to mention a crossover with Toy Story, and a certain Don Bluth film. And forget all of those “suction cup arrow” weapons from the series…this one’s going to have muskets and sabres. Ranchoth (…How’s that song from “Man of La Mancha” go again? “Dream the Impossible Dream”?) ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-your-childhood-cartoons-into-live-action/178771/28 "2003-06-02T22:12:55Z")
Re-Danger Mouse I say stick Rowan Atkinson in a white leotard and some latex make up. Atkinson’s years as Black Adder gave him plenty of experience with ‘my lovable side kick is a blithering idiot’. Ataraxy- I’m assuming that your casting of Tygra was a mental hiccup. Who did you want to cast as the woman who eased so many of us into puberty? ``` Ving Rames-Brilliant! He fits perfectly with my image of Panthro. For me, the defining moment of the character (I have no idea what ep this was)- ``` Slythe-I am unarmed. Dare you face me the same way. Panthro tosses away his nun chuks(I know this is not spelled properly. I just don’t care anymore), flexes his muscles, and assumes an opening stance. Panthro-I prefer it. **Swords, Kings And Destiny** Combine all the Arthurian shows of the 80’s into a single film-He Man, Galtar, Black Star, Thundercats, etc. Each individual scene is true to the cartoon it’s based on. But, when one scene changes to another the characters change. EG ``` Lion-O and Panthro speed off in the Thundertank, racing against time to reach Mumm Ra's Tomb Of Darkness and save Cheetara. Cut to, He-Man and Duncan jumping out of the Attack Track and rushing into Snake Mountain to save Teela from the vile Skeletor. ``` One of these days, I plan to actually compile a film like this from different Rutger Hauer films. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-your-childhood-cartoons-into-live-action/178771.md?page=1)