Jim Carrey Will Star in a Live-Action The Jetsons Movie, Warner Bros. Says

Ace Ventura and Sonic the Hedgehog prima Jim Carrey volition beforehand a live-action movie adaptation of The Jetsons.

Warner Bros. confirmed the movie contiguous successful a missive to shareholders, aft previous, unofficial whispers that the task was successful the works past fall. At the time, Jurassic World: Dominion manager Colin Trevorrow was discussed arsenic helming the abstraction property story, though this is yet to beryllium confirmed.

The Jetsons volition people Carrey's archetypal non-Sonic the Hedgehog movie successful implicit a decennary (since 2016's offbeat execution enigma Dark Crimes). Carrey volition adjacent reprise his relation arsenic Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik successful 2027's Sonic the Hedgehog 4.

The histrion antecedently considered retiring aft Sonic 2 and has subsequently kept thing of a debased illustration successful caller years. However, Carrey made headlines this February erstwhile helium turned up successful France to cod a prestigious grant and talk wholly successful French — thing that fuelled online rumors his quality had been the enactment of an impersonator oregon clone.

Explaining his determination to instrumentality for Sonic 3, Carrey said helium bought a load of worldly and simply needs the money. "I came backmost to this beingness because, archetypal of all, I get to play a genius, which is simply a spot of a stretch," Carrey said. "And, you know, it’s just… I bought a batch of worldly and I request the money, frankly."

A sci-fi counterpart to The Flintstones, Hanna-Barbera's classical cartoon bid primitively aired successful 1962, and was aboriginal revived for much episodes successful the 1980s. The bid stars George and Jane Jetson and their 2 children, arsenic good arsenic a robot maid, successful a futuristic satellite of flying cars.

Numerous attempts person been made to reboot The Jetsons implicit the past 2 decades, with a live-action movie planned successful the aboriginal 2000s that ne'er got disconnected the ground. Bizarrely, the rapper formerly known arsenic Kanye West was progressive astatine oe constituent to immoderate degree, though Warner Bros. aboriginal said these talks had lone been "preliminary."

Over the past decade, Warner Bros. has continued to research the thought of a reboot further, with ideas for an animated movie from the manager of Sausage Party, a live-action sitcom produced by Robert Zemeckis, and present this Carrey-backed live-action movie. Here's hoping this clip things cookware out.

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