Seth McFarlane to remake Flinstones

[Troy]

SETH MacFarlane has been granted the rights to reboot the 1960s animated series as a television and film property.

The updated Flintstones will air on the FOX network, Deadline.com said. A broadcast date has not yet been announced.

The deal to grant Family Guy creator MacFarlane the rights to the show involved negotiations between 20th Century Fox TV and Warner Bros Television, which took over the rights to The Flintstones when animation studio Hanna-Barbera Cartoons was absorbed by Time Warner in 1996.

Please don't redo this cartoon. When I was young I liked watching reruns of the Flinstones and I don't want Seth McFarlane to ruin it. I am used to the voices and don't want him to turn it into a more risque show like his other three animations. When does this guy have time to create four shows? Is FOX just going to become the animation channel?

Do you want to see Seth McFarlane reboot the Flinstones? Have you seen the original Flinstones cartoons?

 

[Purple PuNk]

Hmmm...
This is going to be weird. I hope he at least treats it with respect.

 

[Troy]

Judging by his other three shows, of which I do like Family Guy and American Dad, I doubt that he will remain faithful to the original product. I hope I am wrong but I see him making it a more adult oriented show rather than making it family friendly.

 

[Deezy]

Please tell me this is some kind of cruel joke, thats not funny.

Seriously, Seth McFarlane shows are some of the laziest written shows out here.

I don't care for recycled jokes and non-sequitors that don't make sense.

Dino is going to talk, Pebbles will be a lesbian or somethin. Bam Bam will be Blue and the show will suck.

 

[Purple PuNk]

Actually the Flinstones has always been geared toward adults, and never been family friendly. Due to the change in socio-cultural beliefs the humble demeanor and morals of the 40s/50s became pigeon holed into being for kids and "families".

 

[Troy]

I didn't believe it when I first saw it but it is true.

His shows have dropped in quality as they went on. The issue I have is there is no way the show can be improved, it is ingrained in my brain how the show should look, how it should sound and what it should be about.

His Flinstones will be Family Guy based in prehistoric times.

 

[Purple PuNk]

His Family Guy is Flinstones based in contemporary times.
See I can has fun with werds 2

 

[Troy]

Actually the Flinstones has always been geared toward adults, and never been family friendly. Due to the change in socio-cultural beliefs the humble demeanor and morals of the 40s/50s became pigeon holed into being for kids and "families".

Really? I did not know that. I thought that it was always a kid friendly show.

Does anyone think that he will alter the theme music or will he keep that the same?

Also I just read that the first episode is scheduled to air in 2013.

 

[Troy]

His Family Guy is Flinstones based in contemporary times.
See I can has fun with werds 2

True, but what I meant was that he would keep some of that same humour and crudeness of Family Guy and add it to Flinstones not that he would tone it down.

 

[Purple PuNk]

Yes it is true that is why it did not become to "live up to the family friendly expectation" until they had Pebbles and Bam Bam. Before then it was all about bowling and drinking and how much worked sucked.

 

[Deezy]

This is like when Warner Brothers tried to update Lonney Tunes, and ruined it. Sometimes nostalgia should stay nostalgic. When you update a classic, you ruin the thing that made it special in the first place. Leave it alone, the Flintstones still hold up, my nieces and nephews watch the show and enjoy it.

 

[Troy]

^I am glad I never caught the new version of Looney Toons on tv. The original version was great and is another that can't be improved on. When did that happen?

Hopefully this doesn't start a wave of remakes, Jetsons could be next on the list.

 

[Deezy]

It was a couple of years aog or last year I think.

Remakes or updates are just like the wave of turning old cartoons into feature length movies in the 90s. It was a terrible idea then, and it's a terrible idea now.

 

[Troy]

The Flinstones movie from the mid-ninties was one of those that I remember clearly. It was an awful movie with John Goodman and Rosie O'Donnell starring in it.

 

[Purple PuNk]

What stars Rosei o'Donnell and was good exactly?