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MacFarlane making a reboot of The Flintstones

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Post by Valigarmander » Mon May 16, 2011 7:21 pm

Seth MacFarlane Rebooting The Flintstones - TV News at IGN
FOX reported today that animation overlord Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, American Dad), after many years of negotiations between 20th Century Fox TV and Warner Bros Television, is rebooting The Flintstones as a TV and film property. A dream-come-true, reportedly, for MacFarlane, a mega-saurus Flintstones fan.

There was some concern from the Flintstone rights-holders regarding MacFarlane's raunchy tone and how the new Flintstones would be treated, but it seems like everything got smoothed out in the end. The new Flintstones will begin production in fall 2011 and will be set in stone on the FOX schedule in 2013

"The very first cartoon character I drew at age two was Fred Flintstone," said MacFarlane. "So it's appropriate that events have come full circle, allowing me to produce the newest incarnation of this great franchise. Plus, I think America is finally ready for an animated sitcom about a fat, stupid guy with a wife who's too good for him."
Uhhhh.
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Post by Marilink » Mon May 16, 2011 8:00 pm

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Post by X-3 » Mon May 16, 2011 8:27 pm

not entirely sure what to expect, and I'll never know because the world ends 2012

and then Dino was pretentious
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Post by Jere » Mon May 16, 2011 8:28 pm

I don't think he will do the usual family guy/american dad/Cleavland show with this, i want to see before i judge.
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Post by 1-up Salesman » Mon May 16, 2011 10:14 pm

**** you, McFarlane, **** you! DIE
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Post by ZeldaGirl » Mon May 16, 2011 11:26 pm

Oh.


It's just occurred to me. He's been doing The Flinstones for years.
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Post by Deepfake » Mon May 16, 2011 11:31 pm

^ My thoughts exactly.

Barney Rubble is basically the only good Flintstones character, anyway, sorry folks.
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Post by Maximum Spider » Tue May 17, 2011 2:55 pm

That last sentence reeks of unintentional self-depreciation.
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Post by X-3 » Tue May 17, 2011 3:35 pm

If you think that was unintentional then wow.
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Post by 1-up Salesman » Tue May 17, 2011 6:08 pm

**** YOU, MCFARLANE, **** YOU! DIE!
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Post by Apiary Tazy » Tue May 17, 2011 7:00 pm

Macfarlene isn't listening to you, he has his walkman set to high.
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Post by Calamity Panfan » Tue May 17, 2011 8:36 pm

sounds like a winner
and that's the waaaaaaaaaay the news goes
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Post by 1-up Salesman » Tue May 17, 2011 10:12 pm

**** you, McFarlane, **** you!
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Post by DarkZero » Tue May 17, 2011 10:14 pm

^Must you repeat a post that wasn't very productive in the first place?
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Post by 1-up Salesman » Tue May 17, 2011 10:18 pm

^ Yes, I must, good sir.

Slim chance this'll be good. Not. Happy.
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Post by glux » Tue May 17, 2011 11:02 pm

1-up Salesman wrote:^ Yes, I must, good sir.

Slim chance this'll be good. Not. Happy.
I highly doubt it will have the same crude humor as his other works.
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Post by SephirothKirby » Tue May 17, 2011 11:23 pm

eh

i'll check it out I guess

he's a bit too much of an ***hole in that last sentence, though.
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Post by LOOT » Tue May 17, 2011 11:40 pm

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Post by glux » Wed May 18, 2011 12:38 am

SephirothKirby wrote:eh

i'll check it out I guess

he's a bit too much of an ***hole in that last sentence, though.
I'm sure he was joking.
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Post by Marilink » Wed May 18, 2011 4:17 pm

Edgeless Safety Cube wrote:^ My thoughts exactly.

Barney Rubble is basically the only good Flintstones character, anyway, sorry folks.
I was never the biggest Flintstones fan in the first place. However, I think that cartoons of that era should be left alone, since they were good at the humor of the day. If MacFarlane thinks he can take a pretty innocent mid-century comedy like The Flintstones and turn it into a raunchy 21st-century comedy, that means that he or other people are gonna have free reign to make Tom and Jerry into Jackass 4.

Maybe he'll do it tastefully.

But he won't.
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