Here we go again...
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Zac Efron has signed on to play Johnny Quest in a film that may not be titled "Johnny Quest" because they don't want the negative experience they got from "Speed Racer" last year. So the Suits think that being considered an adaption of a cartoon to be a negative connotation? Or perhaps they should use that marketing department for what it was worth? Maybe they should get a good script and that would be the first part of the problem. Then there is whoever is the moron responsible for trying to turn Johnny Q. into a seventeen year old. Fire that Suit right now. RIGHT NOW. He doesn't know a thing about pop-culture, comics, cartoons or film for that matter. He needs to be scrapping grime off the floors in bathrooms... that's how much distaste I have for such people.
So go ahead and change the name of the lead character. Change the race of Haji to a native American and turn Race Bannon into a hot woman that protects the lead and is deadly with her hands; both in bed and out. Take his scientist father and make him a novelist who travels the world. Make the villain someone who's trying to get hold of his fathers next unpublished book and plagiarize it. Do all this and more. Take it so fare from JQ that I don't have to watch another mess that bean counters come up with.
And when it comes out, if it's not a success then blame it on the fact it was adapted from a cartoon...
