Popeye the Sailor Man

Great. Now I have that "Clean Shaven Man" song in my head. Thanks a lot :-)

Genndy Tartakovsky's 'Popeye' Movie Afloat with King Features

Context to : Evidently, Genndy Tartakovsky is getting to do his Popeye movie after all, albeit with King Features rather than Sony Pictures Animation.

Here's the rub, though: Because King Features got the dibs on the Popeye movie, it means Tartakovsky will have to start from scratch, so we may not see anything from the pitch video Sony Pictures Animation revealed years ago.

But HEY! There was a lot of executive meddling going on with that, so whatever!

Hope they keep Tom Kenny (who voiced him in the 2014 test animation).

I wonder if King Features will let Popeye be traditionally animated? King Features is doing the Cuphead Show, which, while not pen-and-paper like the game, will be hand drawn. That'd be fantastic if Popeye was digitally drawn instead of CGI.

I guess it depends.

If they want this to go theatrical, they may have to lean towards the usual computer animation.

Or, if they want to go super old school and make it hand drawn, box office intake be damned, they could make it a Netflix exclusive.

King Features just opened up their animation division. Their first project, The Cuphead Show will be a Netflix exclusive.

Ooh. I'm liking the sound of their projects thus far.

I wonder if they are keeping the CGI idea?

As long as Genndy leads the project and there's limited executive meddling, I'm cool with whatever happens here.

Not related to the movie, but TCM will be airing a 2 hour marathon dedicated to old school cartoons of the 1920s and 1930s to celebrate Fleischer Animation's 100th Anniversary. Part 1 of marathon will begin October 2nd with a 90-minute documentary on silent cartoons called "Cartoon Carnival" followed by cartoons Fleishcer Studios. Part 2 will continue October 9th.

Cartoon Brew article on "Cartoon Carnival" complete with a trailer.

TCM has been showing Popeye cartoons on Saturday mornings at 10:00 AM for several years now as part of a block based on old movie matinees. They're up to the mid-forties Famous Studios cartoons now.

Has anybody heard of the awful Popeye video game that came out of the blue on the Nintendo Switch? Apparently it's a terrible remake of the Arcade game.

Yeah, Jim Sterling did a feature on it. It looked absolutely atrocious.

Didja know that Donkey Kong was originally conceived as a Popeye game, but the makers couldn't secure the rights?

I have not heard that one before, and it seems like the kind of thing I would know about.

Then you’ll like the next part of the story.

Universal subsequently sued “Donkey Kong” for infringing on their King Kong IP. Nintendo’s lawyer won their case and secured Nintendo’s foothold in North America. Apocryphally, Nintendo honored him by naming their nascent new character after him, Jack Kirby. Which in a roundabout way gives Popeye an extremely influential legacy.

I knew about those bits, but I never heard of the Popeye thing. It just seems too good a piece of trivia to not be mentioned in literally every "history of video games" video.

I'm Popeye the Sailor Man

I live in a caravan

Legal rights struck a big blow

Now I'm Kong for Nintendo

I'm Popeye the Sailor Man

Edited by Zarius on Nov 12th 2021 at 7:53:28 AM

A full animatic for Genndy's Popeye Movie has recently got leaked online yesturday. The animatic is 87-minutes long.

Thats not an animatic at that length,that's practically the movie

...And it's already gone. I hope someone managed to download it in that time.

Edited by RacattackForce on Jul 27th 2022 at 12:51:59 PM

Its the internet,of course someone already has

Yeah, I don't know why I said that. Already found it. Will give it a watch later.