According to /Film, director Peter Segal (Nutty Professor II, Get Smart), already attached to Warner Bros. upcoming Shazam pic, might be skipping over the aforementioned in order to shoot Jonny Quest. Jonny Quest, for those of you who aren’t in nursing homes and thus don’t remember, was a cartoon like 5 million years ago about a fair-haired boy and his psychic Labrador retriever Poncho. Oh and there’s that Indian kid who shoots lasers from the gem in his forehead. Apparently Warner Bros. execs were hot to replicate the massive box-office success they had with that OTHER live-action redo of a 60s cartoon, “Speed Racer.” Because apparently Warner Bros. execs believe that film producering is like golf, in that the lower your score, the better you do.

You know what? From now on, rather than watch Hollywood movies, I’ll just dig all my old action figures out of my mom’s attic and act out my own adventures. Because it’s basically the same thing, only I save 12 bucks, and my version ends with ‘Chewbacca‘ and ‘Cobra Commander‘ finger-cuffing ‘Luke Skywalker‘ Princess Leia.

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