I’m gonna go Sim, Sim Salabim on your ass! 
I never saw Hadji carrying anyone’s luggage, he seemed to be smarter than Jonny, he never dropped into “funny voice mode” at the first sign of danger, the turban came off occasionally, he could levitate people/objects, other sleight-of-hand/pseudo magic tricks, the list goes on. I don’t see any racism, either.
Anubis is coming for you, Rodriguez, and he’s pissed and he’s UGLY!
Color me cautiously optimistic. I was never much of a fan of the original Johnny Quest, but I did grow up with The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest and remember enjoying it. The Questworld CGI was often pretty cringeworthy, but the rest was good and I thought they did a good job characterizing Jessie. IIRC, they didn’t just make her defined by the other characters, nor did they just slap a bunch of classically masculine traits onto her and call it a day.
Dammit, now I really, really want to see a Venture Bros movie directed by Robert Rodriguez. I’m not yet convinced he can do Johnny Quest, but I think he could make an awesome Venture Bros movie.
OK, I remember the “Sim Sim Salabim” stuff now. Still, to me this always looked more like fakir/magician’s trick type “magic,” not any genuine supernatural powers. And Hadji was definitely Johnny’s equal (and friend), not any kind of servant.
TSS Rat, I have a present for you.
I, too. 
Maybe they could get Tim Matheson to play Dr Quest…
No, I watched pretty much every time I caught the show (which was by random chance), and every time it was the ‘robot spy’ one. Weird.
Kind of like the three years I was a max Trekkie and watched ST:TOS every afternoon, five days a week, without fail. I watched the whole run through at least four times… and saw the final episode, “Turnabout Intruder,” exactly once.
I’d settle for a cameo by the Venture family. Because of course you realize that if this is a Johnny Quest movie, then he’s a child and so is Thaddeus “Rusty” Venture.
Johnny Quest is like the ulitmate non-tradtional family. An Indian and a white kid being raised by a super0-scientist and his bodyguard, with a seemingly sentient dog as a pet.
Making them just a gay couple would just be toning things down.
To me, it would have to be a period piece. Set in the 1960s with all the period gadgetry and technology and cold war overtones. Kinda like Indiana Jones worked being set in the 30s.
Yeah!
While The Invisible Monster episode is my personal favorite from the original 26 it was loosely based on the invisible creature from the classic 1956 film, Forbidden Planet
What’s with this thread? What’s with all the Race and Dr. Quest being a gay couple?
I… don’t get it.
Dr. Quest was a widower, who because of his importance to the American Government, gets a body guard to not only protect the doctor but to also protect his son who’d be a tempting target (i.e.: kidnapping) to the country’s enemys’.
Where’s all this gay couple stuff coming from? Yeah, there’s been jokes, I think on Robot Chicken and other shows, but that’s like the lame old Batman & Robin gay jokes. You know, they’re tw men who work closely tougher, so they must be gay.
Look, as long as they adapt the actual, original series, an adventure series (which itself was based on old classic comic strips like Terry and the Pirates**) featuring action and adventure with monsters, villains and sci-fi machinery then they’ll have a winning film. There’s NO need to make any changes.
(Oh, and PLEASE ignore that piece of crap The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest that came out i the late 90’s. That series was a perfect example of how to take a great concept and to completely screw it up.)
I was eleven or so when the original series ended, and was just short of being a little old for cartoons. But I loved Johnny Quest, and actually found the energy monster episode kind of scary.
Another vote for the energy monster!!!
A little old for cartoons? I’m gonna pretend you didn’t say that.
I actually think that Johnson, with white hair and a red golf shirt, might make a pretty good Race Bannon.
Dwayne Johnson does comedy fairly well, which might help if they decide to make this a spoof or a parody film. (And in that case, jokes about the two adult characters might be appropriate.)
Probably an impossible wish, but I hope they find a way to use the original theme music.
If there is Venture Bros movie, only one person could play Brock Samson-the guy who voices him.
I don’t know who Dwayne Johnson is, so I’m picturing Drew Carey.
I vote for the crazy old German in the biplane. Or maybe the midget in the gargoyle suit.