Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Tom and Jerry

1/22/09 – Variety reported that Warner Bros. is turning to Tom and Jerry to create its own "Alvin and the Chipmunks"-like family franchise.  Plans are to bring the constantly warring cat and mouse to life as CG characters that run around in live-action settings.  Studio-based Dan Lin, currently producing the upcoming "Sherlock Holmes" and exec producer on "Terminator: Salvation," will adapt the classic Hanna-Barbera property as an origin story that reveals how Tom and Jerry first meet and form their rivalry before getting lost in Chicago and reluctantly working together during an arduous journey home.  Eric Gravning is penning the script.  "Tom and Jerry" originated as a series of 114 animated shorts, produced by MGM's toon studio between 1940 and 1960, and won seven Academy Awards. New toons were produced after that, and Warner Bros. released "Tom and Jerry: The Movie" in 1992 as a feature-length toon.  Lin will produce "Tom and Jerry" through his Lin Pictures, while Jon Silk will co-produce.

AlienAlmanac.com 2009