Get Smart and Grudge Match director Peter Segal would like Jonny Quest to be his next movie.
Peter Segal was originally slated to direct a live-action adaptation of beloved 1960s animated cartoon series Jonny Quest in 2008. In that time, he has seen his films Get Smart (the adaptation of the 1960s sitcom, now with Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway), as well as this Christmas Day’s Grudge Match come to fruition. It was in promotion of the latter that ComingSoon caught up with him to discuss the still anticipated adaptation of Hanna-Barbera.
“I would love to make that my next movie,” Segal said when asked about Jonny Quest. “…We just hired a writer to do another pass. We already have a very good script. Then we go through budgeting hell and trying to get it into shape.”
While that is not an official confirmation, it appears stronger than when we last heard about it in 2009. They have been attempting to make a Jonny Questfilm since at least the character’s brief 1990s revival on Cartoon Network withThe Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (the one where Jonny, Jesse and Hadji are teenagers and they go into virtual reality on occasion!). The original series of course ran for only 26 episodes from 1964 until 1965. Obviously, the character maintains some impressive staying power still to this day.