With Speed Racer set to make a pit stop multiplexes next year, it was a foregone conclusion that Jonny Quest was soon to follow. Today the trades are reporting that Warner Bros. has greenlit a live-action adaptation of the popular 1964 Hanna-Barbera animated series. The film will be produced by Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter, whose live-action adaptation of the Hitman video game will be released by 20th Century Fox in October.
Based on an idea by Doug Wildey, the Jonny Quest cartoon series follows the adventures of a boy who tags along with dad on government assignments. Joining him in his detective work are ex-agent “Race” Bannon, Indian boy Hadji and family bulldog Bandit. The property was revived in the late 1980s with the Cartoon Network series The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.
Jonny Quest is being adapted for the big screen by scribe Dan Mazeau, who recently sold a fantasy adventure script titled Land of Lost Things to Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon Films. execs Dan Lin and Matt Reilly will oversee production of Jonny Quest for Warner Bros., which is also producing the Wachowski brothers’ Speed Racer movie.
