Robert Rodriguez, the one-man movie-making machine behind the likes of the Spy Kids franchise and the more recent Machete movies, is to direct a big-screen version of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon Jonny Quest for Warner Bros. The original series, which aired in the 1960s, ran for one season before spawning a couple of television movies and a series video games.
The series revolved around a boy named Jonny Quest who accompanies his father on extraordinary adventures. The screenplay for the film, written by Dan Mazeau, has been around since 2008, and although Rodriguez usually directs from his own scripts, the screenplay for this will see him team with Terry Rossio, the man responsible for the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, for a rewrite.
Rodriguez is well known in Hollywood for operating out of his own studio facility, Troublemaker, in Austin, Texas, and not under a big studio, which it looks like he’s set to do for this. He has, of course, earlier on in his career, produced and directed films like Desperado, which was made under the Sony Pictures banner.
No news on start dates for this, but we’ll keep you posted.
Let’s remind ourselves of the original Jonny Quest series.
