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Post subject: Garfield returns!
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The Hollywood Reporter says that Peter Hewitt has come aboard to direct Fox's big-screen live-action/computer-animated adaptation of the long-running Garfield comic strip, and Garfield creator Jim Davis will be producing it! There is no start date for the project.
Fox optioned the feature-film rights to the lasagna-loving, Nermal-hating, Monday-fearing fat cat in December 2001 and hired Toy Story writers Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow to pen the script. |
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Thu Nov 21, 2002 7:41 pm |
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...but Garfield's voice actor is dead. |
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Thu Nov 21, 2002 8:33 pm |
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So is Porky Pigs and Donald Ducks, there are plenty of people that can do the same voice. _________________ Bang. |
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Thu Nov 21, 2002 8:40 pm |
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TylerL wrote: |
...but Garfield's voice actor is dead. |
And your point is...?
Just because he's dead doesn't mean they can't find a look-alike (or, should I make that, sound-alike) replacement of Lorenzo Music, just like the guys at Warner Bros. found lots of replacements for Mel Blanc when HE passed away (Bob Bergen is one example). I'm sure Fox will find a replacement soon enough. |
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Fri Nov 22, 2002 12:19 am |
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besides that, he has been long forgotten (kinda) not as many people could tell the difference in the voices due to the fact garfield and friends has not been shown much lately ( except on nickelodean) _________________ The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? |
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Fri Nov 22, 2002 1:01 am |
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This should be great for nostalga. My dad and I always liked the garfield strips and the books. We shall be hoping for its success since alot of our revisited series to screen have failed (i.e.Rocky and Bullwinkle). _________________ "Complete air superiority and we can't freeze a few gallons of f@$kin' ice cream" - Seige on Fire Base Gloria |
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Fri Nov 22, 2002 1:16 am |
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I have many problems with garfield the comic strip. the cartoon and probably the movie will be fine but I want to kill davis for what he turned the strip into. _________________ "Veni. Vedi. Spooki." - Julius Caesar
I came. I saw. I spooked.
He's better than Pop-Rocks! |
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Fri Nov 22, 2002 12:57 pm |
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It's not funny anymore. Hell, it never was very funy to start with. _________________ This space left intentionally blank.
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Fri Nov 22, 2002 1:43 pm |
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It's no longer good because he sold out and hasn't drawn the strip since the 5th year. Now a studio does it. Garfield is a prime example of exactly what Bill Waterson didn't want Calvin and Hobbes to be. Hence C&H being hailed by many as the greatest comic strip of all time. _________________ anime is teh s uck
Play City of Heroes/Villians? Look me up, Pinnacle server, @C Paradox |
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Fri Nov 22, 2002 4:02 pm |
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Dern Straight. But, Garfield does have its moments nowadays. |
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Fri Nov 22, 2002 5:07 pm |
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counterparadox wrote: |
It's no longer good because he sold out and hasn't drawn the strip since the 5th year. Now a studio does it. Garfield is a prime example of exactly what Bill Waterson didn't want Calvin and Hobbes to be. Hence C&H being hailed by many as the greatest comic strip of all time. |
Actually I think C&H and Peanuts are dead even. You gotta give props to the schultz-man for drawing the strip for so long (up until he no longer could hold a pencil actually, literally) by him self. Actually I['d give a slight edge to Schultz for verocity in his love. Watterson had a verocity, but it was directed in a different way. _________________ "Veni. Vedi. Spooki." - Julius Caesar
I came. I saw. I spooked.
He's better than Pop-Rocks! |
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Fri Nov 22, 2002 11:39 pm |
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Garfield is one of those things that just can't fail... Although in the past two years it seems like it's almost always been the same- Garfield on that eternal counter/table joking with John- Odie seems to be going the way of everyone's favorite MIA character Lyman. John hasn't gone on a date with Liz for a long time, no vacations to a badly managed tropical island, and the Christmas strips just aren't what they used to be.
But if they go for a live action version... That'll breathe in new life.
As it is though, Foxtrot 0wnz them all. _________________ Ice cream has this erotic sense to it- kinda like the one choclate and strawberries have.
-Me |
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Sat Nov 23, 2002 3:21 am |
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Garfield is a prime example of exactly what Bill Waterson didn't want Calvin and Hobbes to be. |
Exactly. I really can't stand reading it in my newspaper. Most of the humor is gone. |
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Sat Nov 23, 2002 4:10 pm |
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Right now, Fox Trot, Zits, and Non Sequitor are the best strips currently in production. (Fox Trot and Zits have each had little tributes ot C&H, btw.) And yes, I do have a large amount of respect for Schultz. Over 50 years, by himself. That takes a lot. But I enjoy reading C&H more, and the artwork is better, I think at least. So on priniple, I would put Schultz and Waterson dead even (Shultz did put out merchandise, and the merc. is typically drawn by a studio), but overall I think Waterson comes out ahead. _________________ anime is teh s uck
Play City of Heroes/Villians? Look me up, Pinnacle server, @C Paradox |
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Sat Nov 23, 2002 4:23 pm |
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Garfield these days is the pits. It's the same joke used over and over. |
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Sat Nov 23, 2002 4:31 pm |
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