The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie | |
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Directed by | Pete Browngardt |
Written by | Kevin Costello |
Based on | Looney Tunes by Warner Bros. |
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Edited by | Nick Simotas |
Music by | Joshua Moshier |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is an upcoming American animated science fiction comedy film produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Directed by Pete Browngardt and written by Kevin Costello, it is the first fully animated non-compilation feature film in the Looney Tunes franchise to receive a theatrical release. The film is a spin-off of the Looney Tunes Cartoons series developed by Browngardt and features the voices of Eric Bauza, Candi Milo, Peter MacNicol, Fred Tatasciore, and Laraine Newman. Its story centers on Daffy Duck and Porky Pig as they try to save the Earth from an alien invasion.
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie will premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 11, 2024, and is expected to be released in the United States later in the same year.
Due to a series of antics at the bubblegum factory, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig discover a secret alien plot to take over the Earth via mind-control. The duo must work together to stop the aliens, while trying to avoid driving each other insane. [1]
In September 2021, it was reported that a film based on the Looney Tunes Cartoons series was in development at Warner Bros. Animation, focusing on Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. [4] Kevin Costello, who previously wrote Warner Animation Group's Tom & Jerry released earlier that year, was announced as the writer, with Pete Browngardt returning from Looney Tunes Cartoons as an executive producer and director. [1]
Bob Bergen, who voices Porky Pig in Looney Tunes Cartoons and various other projects, confirmed that he would not be reprising the role. [5] Candi Milo also replaced Lara Jill Miller as Petunia Pig. [6]
Production for the movie ended in March 2024, according to supervising producer Alex Kirwan. [7]
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie‘s world premiere will take place as the grand opening overture of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival celebration on June 11, 2024 in the Screening Events Section. [8] [9] [10]
It was originally set to be released on Max, which was then known as HBO Max, and the "ACME Night" block on Cartoon Network. [4] However on August 22, 2022, it was reported the film would no longer be released on HBO Max nor Cartoon Network, and that instead would be shopped around to other streaming services. [11] On June 20, 2023, it was revealed that the film was retitled Looney Tunes: Bubble Brains. [12] On October 26, 2023, it was announced that the film would instead be released in theaters in 2024, with the title reverting to The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie; GFM Animation launched sales and presented first-look footage at the American Film Market, which ran from October 31 to November 5, 2023. [13] [14]
The film was promoted during the Warner Bros. Discovery panel at the 2022 San Diego Comic-Con, where the film's title was unveiled. [2] An early animation clip for the film was released on September 22, 2022. [15] The film was shown during the Warner Bros. Animation panel at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. [15] Montreal studio TONIC DNA provided traditional animation for the film. [16]
Looney Tunes is an American animated franchise produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It began as a series of short films that originally ran from 1930 to 1969, along with its partner series Merrie Melodies, during the golden age of American animation. Following a revival in the late 1970s, new shorts were released as recently as 2014. The two series introduced a large cast of characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig. The term Looney Tunes has since been expanded to also refer to the characters themselves.
Daffy Duck is a fictional character created by animators Tex Avery and Bob Clampett for Leon Schlesinger Productions. Styled as an anthropomorphic black duck, he has appeared in cartoon series such as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, in which he is usually depicted as a foil for either Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig or Speedy Gonzales. He was one of the first of the new "screwball" characters that emerged in the late 1930s to replace traditional everyman characters who were more popular earlier in the decade, such as Mickey Mouse, Porky Pig, and Popeye.
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Rabbit Fire is a 1951 Looney Tunes cartoon starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd. Directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese, the cartoon is the first in Jones' "hunting trilogy"—the other two cartoons following it being Rabbit Seasoning and Duck! Rabbit, Duck! It is also the first cartoon to feature a feud between Bugs and Daffy. Produced by Edward Selzer for Warner Bros. Cartoons, the short was released to theaters on May 19, 1951 by Warner Bros. Pictures and is often considered among Jones' best and most important films.
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This is a list of all cartoons featuring Porky Pig. Directors are listed in parentheses.
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Peter Browngardt is an American animator, storyboard artist, writer, producer, and voice actor. He is currently working as executive producer and creative director behind Looney Tunes Cartoons. He is best known for being the creator of Cartoon Network's Uncle Grandpa, in which he also voices the title character, a spin-off of the earlier Secret Mountain Fort Awesome. Browngardt has had prior experience working on shows such as Futurama, The Venture Bros., Chowder and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. His main contribution to the Adventure Time series is storyboarding and writing the episode "Wizard".
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