The breaking story ...
Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Animation are kicking around a brand new version of the hit 1990s cartoon Animaniacs, IndieWire has learned. The potential reboot comes as Animaniacs has experienced a new surge in popularity since arriving on Netflix last year. ... Animaniacs ran for 99 episodes – from 1993 to 1995 on Fox Kids, before moving to Kids’ WB from 1995 to 1998. It also spawned the primetime spinoff Pinky and the Brain, which aired on The WB. ...
They're a ways from having anything ready for production, from the sound of it. But a newer edition will likely make it on to Netflix ... or Amazon .... or somewhere.
It makes good commercial sense to do more episodes of Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, and/or Pinky and the Brain. The challenge will be to bring the newer versions up to the level of the originals, for they were TV halv-hours on which no expense was spared. Actual layouts. Original music. Well-crafted stories and nicely designed characters.
How long it will be before Animaniacs 2018 rolls down the assembly is maybe known to Warner Bros. and Amblin', but nobody else. My assumption is that work is being done at Warner Bros. Animation on the Ranch on Hollywood Way or the Pinnacle on Alameda, but I don't do walk-throughs anymore so who knows? These things usually take awhile to get rolling, but when there are dollars being thrown around, sometimes development is sped up.
And if it's Animaniacs next year, can the other Spielberg[Warners collaborations be far behind?
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