According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney is in the process of hiring crew to work on an unnamed Gargoyles project.
Gargoyles was an animated series in the 1990s, and it was good fun, though it was no Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
With the success of Transformers, cartoon properties have become a hot ticket in Hollywood, and this is just the latest in a series of planned adaptations, despite the limited success of last year's GI Joe movie.
For those who didn't spend the 80s and 90s watching cartoons, Gargoyles followed a clan of 'heroic Gargoyles', thousand year-old stone creatures who come alive at night to protect New York City from evil.
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Disney are in negotiations to develop a live-action story centred on the stone creatures, who interact with human allies such as Detective Elisa Masa in order to keep the city safe.
No word yet on how they plan to bring the Gargoyles to life, be it CGI, like Transformers, or animatronics as in the Turtles movies.
So what next? Street Sharks? Dino-Riders? SWAT Cats..?
[Source: The Hollywood Reporter]
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BiDDY
Jul 14th 2010, 19:04
That's Amazing, I used to watched that when I was at school, Hopefully they'll do a really good job of it :-D
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BiDDY
Jul 14th 2010, 19:05
That's Brill!!!
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KamikazeDingo
Jul 14th 2010, 21:16
it may not be disney but someone needs to pull their finger out and make a Biker Mice from Mars movie
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Zooler89
Jul 14th 2010, 21:19
I remember loving that cartoon as a kid. But has there ever really been a successful adaptaion of an animated show?
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flippant
Jul 14th 2010, 21:28
Three letter evaluations: Feh. Meh. I'd much rather see Danger Mouse (the cartoon not the recording artist).
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Monkeynuts30
Jul 14th 2010, 23:31
Bring on the Samurai Pizza Cats is all I say
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Lumpmoose
Jul 15th 2010, 6:36
This movie is not based on the 90's cartoon, as confirmed by Variety: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118021704.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 They're just ripping off the idea without giving Gargoyles a proper remake. There's a Facebook group for fans that want to convince Disney to make a REAL Gargoyles movie: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=142182852459700&v=wall
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