You know, it's strange that even in all the rush to turn everything in sight into a computer animated film it's taken Hollywood this long to start adapting classic cartoons into CGI features. It seems like a natural progression of the rampant remake buzz the movie business has going.
Well, DreamWorks Animation is about to get the ball rolling. Variety says they're adapting the classic (and oft referenced) fifties cartoon characters of Mr. Peabody & Sherman into a computer animated movie. The cartoon duo originally appeared in segments called "Peabody's Improbable History" as part of "Rocky and Bullwinkle". Peabody was a super-intelligent dog and Sherman a human boy and also his adopted son. Actually, in retrospect it was a pretty weird relationship. I mean, Peabody was a gay dog right? Lonely confirmed bachelor who adopt a human boy for companionship my ass.
The show centered around Peabody and Sherman's journeys in time via Mister Peabody's WABAC (wayback) machine. They'd show up at some event in history, discover it wasn't going right and then fix it before moving on to Peabody's bad pun of the week and his trademark catchphrase, "Quiet you!"
Lion King and Stuart Little director has been brought on board to helm it, actually it was his pitch so the whole thing was his idea in the first place. Andrew Kurtzman, Jason Clark, and Minkoff will write the script.
