Monday, December 6, 2010
Animaniacs Movie Poster #6: "Revolutionary Warners"
Here's another early draft of a movie poster for a proposed Animaniacs feature film: "Revolutionary Warners." While we plotted out an outline in which the Warners played an instrumental role in the battle for independence, Bob Doucette designed this patriotic promo piece.
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Warners vs. Red Coats
ReplyDeleteWarners win, that one's an easy guess. What jokes could have gone along well with this? I bet them and Benjamen Franklin would get along pretty well, would they make fun of John Handcock's name? And the Warners could have been the village sexton I bet. They ring the bell, that's the only task where they wouldn't cause trouble.
Sorry, just kind of brain storming what this could have been. I see alot of potential.
Not to state the obvious, but I wonder if this got turned into some of the episodes that focus on American history?
ReplyDeleteJS: This feature film concept was proposed in the late 90's, several years after we had made the Animaniacs cartoons you mention. By then, Bob Doucette and I were working on "Histeria!," and for that show we used every humorous American Revolution idea that we had!
ReplyDeleteTom, as for the regular episodes, it's true that from the beggining, you wanted Rita and Runt to be the main characters hosting the show instead of the warners?
ReplyDeleteNo, I always wanted the Warners to be the hosts. But early on, we had some other candidates, like Rita and Runt, but that was when they were to be like Abbott and Costello. When the cat and dog went in a different direction as characters, they didn't fit hosting roles.
ReplyDeleteok, I won't write a list this time, but the reason I wrote those "actual" celebrities at the last post (Lady Gaga, Robert Pattinson, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, etc.) it's because I recently downloaded the episode "video review" and a lot of famous movies appeared, and I imagine how things could be if that episode would be at these decade (2000's), ¿can I tell you about them later, it's late and I need to rest.
ReplyDeleteOK, two questions this time:
ReplyDelete1. ¿what do you think about the "contemporary" celebrities I wrote about in animaniacs (you already said Sherri Stoner wanted Slappy Squirrel to meet Lady Gaga)
2. ¿how many animaniacs movie concepts were elaborated? ¿how wakko's wish "passed" the "test"?, ¿do you have a concept poster of it?
!goodnight everybody!
JC,
ReplyDeleteIf Animaniacs were in production today, I suspect we would want to lampoon many current celebrities.
I don't recall the exact number of Aniamniacs movie concepts that made it to the treatment stage. I still have rough posters from one or more to share.
"Wakko's Wish" came about a year or so later as a separate effort.
You say that the Warners are an ambiguous species that you call "Cartoonus Characterus," Tom Ruegger, but if they were a real species, would they be a cat (like Rita) or a dog (like Buttons or Runt)? I personally think they would be cats if they were a member of a real species because of their tails, paws, and red noses.
ReplyDeleteBut cats' ears are pointy and the Warners ears are rounded.
ReplyDeleteCats can have rounded eartips, they just don't have ears as round as lion or puma ears.
ReplyDeleteThis one is excellent concept. And I am highly impressed to see this Revolutionary Warner brothers poster. As the elegant design of this one really makes me crazy about it. Thanks for sharing some mind blowing and heart throbbing poster in this post.
ReplyDeleteI think the Warners are a rare species of mixed dog and cat because Yakko and Wakko look like dogs and Dot looks like a cat...
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