Disney to produce Underdog Movie

[CookieS]

Now sure if this just a rumor or confirmed, but I thought I'd mention it. Here is the text I found...

Underdog - A diminutive hound named Shoeshine accidentally acquires superpowers during a lab mishap. A lonely twelve-year-old boy adopts Shoeshine, and the two form a strong friendship based on the secret they share; the little dog is actually a the superhero Underdog. Underdog's nemesis is the mad scientist Simon Barsinister who must be overcome if Capitol City will be saved. The caped canine with a flair for rhyming couplets is best known as the star of NBC's tongue-in-cheek cartoon, which ran from 1964 to 1973. Disney and Spyglass Entertainment are adapting the source for live action big screen treatment, working from a script by Joe Piscatella and Craig A. Williams. Underdog will be played by a real dog with CGI enhancements and if all goes well, Walt Disney Pictures is hoping for a franchise. This potentially first film is shooting for a summer 2007 release and is slated to begin production March 2006 in Rhode Island.

[Source: UltimateDisney.com (http://www.ultimatedisney.com/intheaters.html)]

[Martianinvader]

Please don't let it be Tim Allen in a dog suit.....
Please don't let it be Tim Allen in a dog suit.....
Please don't let it be Tim Allen in a dog suit.....

[Wussycat]

Good thing I've never watched Underdog, or else I'd be really p'ed off.

[straw_hat]

I don't have much recollection of Underdog and I'm still ticked off. It's about an anthromorphic dog who pops pills to battle evil but there just has to be idiots who want to take it out of animation and make it live action.

[Mittenz]

Underdog will be played by a real dog with CGI enhancements and if all goes well, Walt Disney Pictures is hoping for a franchise.
[Source: UltimateDisney.com (http://www.ultimatedisney.com/intheaters.html)]

I don't know about anyone else. But I like Underdog as a cartoon and not a real dog, mostly because I don't want this type of change.

[TheMecca]

Underdog, the Underdog I grew up with, as a REAL dog? With CGI enhancements?
A FRANCHISE?
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[hobbyfan]

Underdog, the Underdog I grew up with, as a REAL dog? With CGI enhancements?
A FRANCHISE?
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I second that emotion!:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

They're better off making it a cartoon, computer animated if necessary, and go from there. May the alleged geniuses at Disney be forced to read Santayana for a year.

[GagaMan]

Great. They already raped Inspector gadget with a live action movie, now this? Bugger.

[Mittenz]

I've said it before on another thread, and I'll say it again here.

Here's a picture of the people making this film at which the idea of making it a live-action film instead of a cartoon is devised:

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[havokpryde]

Disney didn't mess up too badly with the Chronicles of Narnia. I mean I alter watched the behind the scenes after seeing the movie, and I realized that I could not tell the difference because it was so fluid in the scenes with Fenris Ulf, that they were real wolves with CG enhancements.

[hobbyfan]

I don't have much recollection of Underdog and I'm still ticked off. It's about an anthromorphic dog who pops pills to battle evil but there just has to be idiots who want to take it out of animation and make it live action.

Like I said before, they're better off leaving it as a toon.

A couple of years back, there was a rumor that surfaced about a Underdog movie, with David Spade attached. I wrote that off at the time as someone's idea of an April Fool joke, because I think the rumor cropped up around that time.

The reason they want to do it as a live-action/CGI movie is because they figure, they've got the tech and the resources, they can make use of it. It's a waste of said technology.

[Barefoot Lurker]

I hope it's a rumor. I got a chill reading that.

[Happy]

Live Action, I soooo called it.

[One Radical Dude]

I'm betting that this is going to become a reality. :sad:

[SAMaine]

Hopefully the Movie Underdog's superpowers will involve being anthropomorphic and speaking in iambic pentameter.

What Jay Ward character will be put into a live-action movie next after Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, George of the Jungle, and Underdog?

Peabody & Sherman?
Tennessee Tuxedo?
King Leonardo?
Cap'n Crunch?!

When will it end?!

[straw_hat]

Actually Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo and King Leonardo weren't created by Jay Ward but I'm willing to bet some moron is planning a Peabody and Sherman movie.

[Batman91]

Personally I think its possible to make a good live action movie based off of a cartoon,yet I still haven't seen it done.:sad:

[SAMaine]

Personally I think its possible to make a good live action movie based off of a cartoon,yet I still haven't seen it done.:sad:

Tell me. Have you seen the Flintstones Movie? That was probably the best live-action movie based on a cartoon. It stayed true to the Flintstones premise and John Goodman did indeed look like a live-action Fred Flintstone. Rick Morranis, however, didn't look a thing like Barney Rubble.

[New Noise™]

...You've got to be kidding me... I really hope this doesn't happen, because it's going to be an embarassment to Disney. On that page, I'm focusing on Meet the Robinsons; it looks very promising.

[BlackCat]

Like what everybody else said, I can't imagine a live action Underdog movie working at all. This will be a disaster if this comes to fruition. I can already see the dishonor they'll be doing to the original cartoon if they actually make this movie.

Actually Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo and King Leonardo weren't created by Jay Ward but I'm willing to bet some moron is planning a Peabody and Sherman movie.
I would actually prefer to see a live action Peabody and Sherman than Underdog. At least the premise would work better instead of a superhero dog movie. Mr. Peabody would also work better as real/CGI dog, since Shoeshine was more of a humanoid.

[DarthGonzo]

Tell me. Have you seen the Flintstones Movie? That was probably the best live-action movie based on a cartoon. It stayed true to the Flintstones premise and John Goodman did indeed look like a live-action Fred Flintstone. Rick Morranis, however, didn't look a thing like Barney Rubble.

And Rosie O'Donnel actually looked like Betty? Whatever.

[Doz Hewson]

"Don't **** with my memories! Disney, just when I thought you could not

POSSIBLY be topt, here yall ger again.... Yuu fuuls."

(Misspellings intended,except for "topt",which is a rare alternate spelling of

"topped".)

[CookieS]

Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=underdog.htm) reports an August 3rd, 2007 release date!

[JellicleCat1965]

Now sure if this just a rumor or confirmed, but I thought I'd mention it. Here is the text I found...

Underdog - A diminutive hound named Shoeshine accidentally acquires superpowers during a lab mishap. A lonely twelve-year-old boy adopts Shoeshine, and the two form a strong friendship based on the secret they share; the little dog is actually a the superhero Underdog. Underdog's nemesis is the mad scientist Simon Barsinister who must be overcome if Capitol City will be saved. The caped canine with a flair for rhyming couplets is best known as the star of NBC's tongue-in-cheek cartoon, which ran from 1964 to 1973. Disney and Spyglass Entertainment are adapting the source for live action big screen treatment, working from a script by Joe Piscatella and Craig A. Williams. Underdog will be played by a real dog with CGI enhancements and if all goes well, Walt Disney Pictures is hoping for a franchise. This potentially first film is shooting for a summer 2007 release and is slated to begin production March 2006 in Rhode Island.

[Source: UltimateDisney.com (http://www.ultimatedisney.com/intheaters.html)]









A real dog with CGI enhancement?That sure doesnt sound like Underdog to me.I expected more out Disney..I actaully expected them to make a complete CGI movie with all the Underdog characters in them,not a "This is the 100th story about a boy with a dog" story.So far,I have hated all the movies that were based on cartoons-Fat Albert,Flintstones,Super Mario Brothers,Rocky & Bullwinkle,and Josie & the Pussycats.The movies were not true to the characters,and the storylines stunk!If Hollywood wants to make movies based on cartoons,the least they could do is stay faithful to the TV shows and make the movies all CGI(like they did with "Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas").

[DarthGonzo]

What? WHAT??!! This isn't Underdog at all!!! This is nonsense.

[Batman91]

Hmm...this brings up some very interesting ideas.I won't judge yet because judging now would be unfair.But besides the point that Disney believes only CGI movies are successful nowdays(even though most aren 't that good IMO)I'm suprised they haven't thought of making a full 2D animated movie,leaving the characters just as they were in the orininal cartoons.I don't think a small change here from and there would hurt a 2D animated movie,as long as the stay in contact with the original.

[SAMaine]

And Rosie O'Donnel actually looked like Betty? Whatever.

I figured Rosie not looking like Betty would be obvious enough that I didn't need to mention it. I mean Rick Morranis looks more like Barney, than Rosie looks like Betty.

Oh and don't diss Josie or Super Mario Bros as being based on cartoons. Josie was originally an Archie comic and Super Mario is a video game series. Super Mario Bros would've been a decent movie if they didn't just slap on Mario to it.

[Celiwynde]

They are currently filming the movie here in Providence, RI. I met Jim Belushi a few weeks ago when he was here doing a script reading. He has a small role in the movie.The film crews are in and around the downtown area daily now.

[Mittenz]

They are currently filming the movie here in Providence, RI. I met Jim Belushi a few weeks ago when he was here doing a script reading. He has a small role in the movie.The film crews are in and around the downtown area daily now.
I hope they're not going in the Donkin' Donuts Center. :p