Popeye, the Feature was always a passion project for Genndy Tartakovsky: he wanted badly to do it, and Sony Pictures Animation was all in to have Genndy do it ... until SPA wasn't. But now it seems, Popeye might end up on the big screen anyway:
... Genndy Tartakovsky is teaming up with King Features to go back to the drawing board on his long-awaited Popeye animated feature, close sources have revealed to Animation Magazine. The Annie and Emmy award-winning, Golden Globe-nominated animation visionary directed Sony Pictures Animation’s hit Hotel Transylvania trilogy and created celebrated series Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack (both Cartoon Network), Primal (Adult Swim) and, in collaboration with Lucasfilm, Star Wars: Clone Wars (CN). ...
“I just wanted him to be Popeye," [Tartakosky said]. "It’s a very deep, dark, and long story, but it was obvious they didn’t want it and it was obvious they didn’t have a lot of respect for me and I was handling their number one franchise [Hotel Transylvania],” Tartakovsky told Newsarama in 2017. “It wasn’t going to work because they didn’t really believe in it. It was a tough loss for me. We had a proof of concept, we had an amazing story reel all done that everybody loved. The whole studio was excited and the marketing was gearing up, but then the [North Korea-Sony] hack happened” ...
Yet now, perhaps, that loss can be turned around with rights-holder King Features and made into box office gold.
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