If I am correct, this film has been in development hell for nearly 6 years. I do remember that Ralph's son Eddie bakshi had talked about getting Charlie Adler to voice one of the characters(I can only assume he's voicing this character(the one who looks like he's spitting while he talks)
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Its good to hear that somebody wants to see this get off the ground, will this be released world wide in the cinemas?
edited 8th Jun '11 3:18:31 PM by Playedforkeeps
It will probably only be a limited release. Adult animation is sadly a small market (Rob Zombie's The Haunted World of El Superbeasto had a grand total of two screenings before going to DVD).
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I always assumed that this would get released through film festivals, giving the state on how Ralph's previous projects were "messed with". Although, I think if Bakshi was going to do this theatrical wise he's going to need a miracle.
Although he might be aiming for that since there was an interview where he talked about this being a budget at a 150 million with a Pg rating. Then again, who knows.
Lord of the rings(his take) was messed with as well. Although I have never saw it to say if it was good or not. If Bakshi is even interested in getting this into the cinemas(worldwide) those chances may be very unlikely.
Although, seeing how people are asking for hand-drawn animation to return it may be possibly. Although Ralph better know a good executive so that he can have full control over being screwed with again.
The project that Taco is talking about is Bobby's girl. It was to be a feature animated film that would be a parody on the whole teen drama genre at the time. Bakshi and John were working on this while they were doing Mighty Mouse.
There was a forum that talked about Spumco stuff(that seems to be gone) and(if I remember right) John himself stated that they used actual scripts for this project. And Tri star wouldn't allow storyboard use for scripts. Nothing came out of this project due to the president of Tri star leaving. It even caused Bakshi to pitch the film again to Tri star, but the new heads couldn't see anything good with it. Concept artwork of this can be seen in book that talks about Ralph Bakshi. Can anyone get images from the book on here that show the concept art of Bobby's girl?
edited 14th Jun '11 2:31:01 PM by Theoriginalblader
He means Tri Star Pictures. And John K worked on it before Ren and Stimpy (according to Wikipedia, this was about 1986). Bizarrely enough, said executive (who would have co-financed the project) later became the CEO of the infamous PAX channel.
edited 14th Jun '11 1:23:33 PM by Buscemi
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/Am I the only one excited about this? Bakshi has a fandom other than...well, me?
edited 14th Jun '11 6:02:35 PM by Anthony_H
Hm, i haven't watched too much of Bakshi's work other than bits and pieces of them—the only work of his i've seen entirely is that cheesy animated adaptation of Lord of the Rings he made—although i'm sure he's much more talented that that. I also have his "Unfiltered" book, which is a great read—you know it's good when it's written well enough to make that LOTR animated film sound like a competently made film. So much great artwork, with just enough text to provide context to the images.
I'm all game for his film getting finished. I wish i could meet the guy in person and help him out on the film.

A Toronto backer wants to pick up production on Bakshi's unfinished animated feature
. Could this possibly get out of Development Hell?