I can live with this. When I used to sub I'd read the Captain Underpants books while the kiddies were at lunch or recess (if I didn't have recess duty).
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Oh I LOVED those books when I was younger! :D
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Hopefully Pilkey gets to adapt his own books.
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I'm not sure how to respond to this. Is there really enough material in Captain Underpants to make a movie? I guess they could cram together a couple books...
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I just...
I can't decide if this is an ok thing or a horrible thing.
edited 4th Nov '11 11:23:39 AM by Zeromaeus
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This is either extremely great, or the worst thing imaginable.
I'm not sure the world is ready.
If it turns out to be live action, I will follow this just to see people's reactions.
edited 4th Nov '11 1:37:27 PM by KnownUnknown
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I am curiously intrigued by this, although that might be my arrested development showing.
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I heard that in 2005, Warner Bros held the rights, with Spike Jonze planned to direct.
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An adaptation of a Dav Pilkey book could never be bad. There's just too much entertainment value to fail.
Meanwhile, I wouldn't mind seeing animated film versions of Dogzilla and Kat Kong (released together as a double feature).
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This is all gonna come down to the voice cast they get. Hopefully, there'll be enough ham for the average Thanksgiving dinner. I have a sneaking suspicion Nicholas Cage is going to pop up somewhere...
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There isn't enough material in the books to make much of a straight-up adaption. It'd be a bit of the story, then lots of padding, then another bit, then more padding, and then a couple bits of the story with padding evenly distibuted through them. In other words, a straight-up adaption would be TERRIBLE.
But this is Dreamworks. They're famous for making a good movie from a book, without using much from the original book at all.
Yeah. Bet you didn't know Shrek was a book before it was a movie :P
edited 5th Nov '11 3:19:27 AM by MrMallard
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I'm just hoping that the animation is as stylized as the illustrations in the books themselves. I don't care if they've got the funniest, best script in the world—if George Beard and Harold Hutchins don't look like George Beard and Harold Hutchins, I'm out.
...okay, maybe I might see it if it has a good script.
As for length, maybe they might do what they did for the Tintin movie and adapt several of the books in one. I'm curious how they'd handle the comic book and Flip-O-Rama sequences though 
Oh, I loved Captain Underpants as a kid! It would be awesome if it was hand-drawn animated using the artstyle from the books. Of course, that will never happen anyway... I miss hand-drawn animation.
edited 5th Nov '11 5:41:54 PM by WackyPancake
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Dreamworks is probably the best company to do this. They're good with this sort of humor, so it could be halfway decent.
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Is Dave Pikley even attached to this project? Last I have heard he put the books of Captain underpants on hold to help take care of his father(who was very sick).
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That was a few years back (he's now restarted the series). Right now, he's working on a short film with his wife and relatives (about a superhero team, including a half-animal, half-Elvis hybrid).
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Dude.
Dream Works buys the rights to anything that interests them. It does not mean they will actually pull through with a movie! Tons and tons of pitches and ideas at that place are scrapped, and a movie is never heard from again. Just go to Dream Work's page under What Could Have Been.
Well, that's depressing.
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I hope they get it right. While Captain Underpants had a lot of immature humor in the premise, a lot of the actual jokes stemmed from general wackiness and damaging the fourth wall.
In other words, if every other joke in this thing is "he farted", I'm leaving the theater.
I trust Dream Works, though. I'm not the biggest fan, but I don't think I'd put something like this in the hands of any other company.
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X4, Im not up to date with Captain underpants considering that I'm not a big fan of the series. Besides, this has the words "toliet humor The Movie" written all over it. Unless if Dreamworks pulls a How to Train your dragon with this.
Captain Underpants is heavily based around toilet humor, yes, but it's also incredibly self referential. It lampshades the shit out of itself. It actually comes off as almost a parody of toilet humor.
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About time this happens!
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http://www.deadline.com/2011/10/dreamworks-animation-bags-captain-underpants-for-feature/
For some reason this excites me.
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