Test Reels Surface For HONG KONG PHOOEY & MARVIN THE MARTIAN Movies

Test Reels Surface For HONG KONG PHOOEY & MARVIN THE MARTIAN Movies

Director Alex Zamm has posted test footage from his live-action/animation in-development Hong Kong Phooey and cancelled Marvin the Martian films. Hit the jump to check them out.

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By nailbiter111 - Dec 27, 2012 10:12 PM EST
Filed Under: Animated Features
Source: bleedingcool



The demo reels below were directed by Alex Zamm and produced by Alcon Entertainment. They were meant to show off a live-action/computer generated look for potential Hong Kong Phooey and Marvin the Martian movies. Marvin the Martian has already been cancelled and Phooey is still listed as in-development, BUT most times when test footage from a project migrates online it means that the project is officially kaput.





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SeaSerpentine
SeaSerpentine - 12/27/2012, 10:55 PM
"Hong Kong Phooey" looks like crap. "Marvin the Martian" looks meh, but it might have more patential.
ISleepNow
ISleepNow - 12/27/2012, 11:03 PM
AUSSYACE
AUSSYACE - 12/27/2012, 11:03 PM
Eddy Murphy doing the voice for Honk Kong Phooey just does not work and its a pretty sad joke at the end with the whole toilet thing...

I remember the good old days with Hong Kong Phooey in the cartoons while I was growing up...

LEEE777
LEEE777 - 12/28/2012, 12:06 AM
Damn, remember posting about PHOOEY a couple of years ago, sad, that would've been a good laugh, MARVIN too... well better than another MUPPET movie or something anyways!

Damnnn Phooey looks pretty cool there, toons a classic! :P
DrHorrible
DrHorrible - 12/28/2012, 12:06 AM
Honestly, they don't look half-bad. They don't look all that good, but not terrible either. I'd maybe, MAYBE watch them if they were made into movies, seeing as I loved the cartoons back in the day.

I mean, it can't get very much worse than the Smurfs movies...
DrHorrible
DrHorrible - 12/28/2012, 12:09 AM
@LEEE777 There's still a good chance that the Hong Kong Phooey movie will be coming out, seeing as it's still in development.

Marvin the Martian, however, seems to be in limbo as of now.
KelvTwelve
KelvTwelve - 12/28/2012, 12:12 AM
Oh gurdddd, that... That was cringing.

Please dear god, stop the CGI monsters. STAHP THEM.

Also defending the Muppets again since people who actually care about humor, filmmaking, and their product work on them (well, you know, most of the time..., okay well only in the Muppets 2011 - but... Thank the lord and savior Jason Segel and the Flight of the Conchords).

That said, James Gunn wrote Scooby-Doo 1 and 2. Hilarious.
THRILLHO
THRILLHO - 12/28/2012, 12:31 AM
EagleEye21
EagleEye21 - 12/28/2012, 12:46 AM
My childhood... RUIN!!!!!
IronLantern79
IronLantern79 - 12/28/2012, 1:13 AM
I'd like to see the Marvin the Martian film.


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unknownfacts
unknownfacts - 12/28/2012, 2:06 AM
Maybe as Direct to dvd video,because I see these as box office bust.
loki668
loki668 - 12/28/2012, 4:38 AM
I'll take "Two films I never want to [frick]ing see made" for a thousand.

Lord Loki has spoken
Cosmic1
Cosmic1 - 12/28/2012, 5:34 AM
Hong Kong Phooey is too tall and they messed up the cat, he shoulda been cg too, surprisingly the voice is similar to the cartoon. Marvin Martian was good. I think both would have been good kids movies.
mgeoff88
mgeoff88 - 12/28/2012, 6:24 AM
That's what passes for cartoon humor these days? Kids today are missing out.

CG cartoon characters look ridiculous in real life settings. Both of the films should be completely CG.
TheNameIsBetty
TheNameIsBetty - 12/28/2012, 6:28 AM
Hong Kong Phooey was terrible. They didn't capture the spirit of the cartoon at all. At best, the cat was sorta funny. But I'm glad they scrapped that one. Marvin the Martian was funny, but the kid sorta ruined it.

Oh well, now we know.
edmundo
edmundo - 12/28/2012, 6:33 AM
I thought cartoons were supposed to be funny
JoeMomma29
JoeMomma29 - 12/28/2012, 6:43 AM
At least the CGI was better then those Twilight Movies!!!
darthbooty
darthbooty - 12/28/2012, 6:52 AM
Between the Hong Kong Phooey clip and the total lack of caffeine in my system, I think I wanna go back to bed...forever.

I also think at this point Eddie Murphy should do what George Costanza did in that episode of Seinfeld and just do the EXACT opposite of what decisions he would normally make. Either that or sit in a parked car with the engine running in an enclosed space while pondering his career until it hurts no more...
m0th3r
m0th3r - 12/28/2012, 7:26 AM
Well..there is a lot of anger here..lol...they are for kids, we fanboys tend to be actual over 18 type people. Stop looking for a monster movie company to spend millions of dollars to market a kid product, with nostalgia value, to a niche market of 18-45 year old men. We all know we have the money to spend, but no one is going to make Garfield, Flintstones, or Marvin the Martian for us. Superhero type Comic Books (and most other types for that matter) havent been for little kids in YEARS, decades really, the last century even....

And for everyone who says Animaniacs....that would be AWESOME!
KaneVonDoom
KaneVonDoom - 12/28/2012, 7:47 AM
Really, WB has got to be more clever than this... Nut shots, toilet humor.

Lame.
poop23
poop23 - 12/28/2012, 7:58 AM
The look of everything was good, Marvin's animation was good... The humor was terrible, they really should take some lessons from pixar on that

And Animaniacs would be awesome as long as they don't screw that up like every other cartoon being brought back in cg... That and Freakazoid, or Pinky and the Brain
CaptainObvious
CaptainObvious - 12/28/2012, 7:58 AM
There's more toilet humor in these two reels than The Phantom Menace.
plasticman
plasticman - 12/28/2012, 8:22 AM
Cartoons I would rather see brought to live action from the 60's or 70's:

-Grape Ape
-Herculoids
-Space Ghost
-Jetson's
Facade
Facade - 12/28/2012, 8:23 AM
For ANYONE that liked The Smurfs, I guess. Shit looks horrible!
HelaGood
HelaGood - 12/28/2012, 8:38 AM
live action talking animals = shit
Phango
Phango - 12/28/2012, 8:43 AM
As one of the few teens on this site, I could actually enjoy these films with my little brother. Sure they aren't so great but little kids enjoy these types of things no matter how bad it is.
SATW42
SATW42 - 12/28/2012, 8:48 AM
Hong Kong Phooey was a janitor in a human police station but he doesn't know what a bathroom is?
SCURVYDOG619
SCURVYDOG619 - 12/28/2012, 9:24 AM
I'd settle for Bruce Timm and Paul Dini working their magic on a new Space Ghost series.

Especially if it was adapted from the Joe Kelly-written GN...I'm sure Joe would be all for it..
dnno1
dnno1 - 12/28/2012, 10:29 AM
Hong Kong Phoey is hilarious. Marvin the Martian is going to need a little more work though.
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