Great, now that that’s out of our system, let’s talk about what happened to Seth MacFarlane’s planned Flintstones reboot, besides common sense prevailing for once. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the modern spin on the cartoon classic – which MacFarlane spent two years negotiating a deal for – is “on life support” after Fox president Kevin Reilly responded to the script for the show’s pilot with a resounding, “Meh.” Reilly liked it, but didn’t love it, and told MacFarlane he could either rewrite the script or could table it to focus on the approximately billion other projects he currently has in the works.
Seeing as how the only way one could conceivably redo a Flintstones script would be to think of more creative ways to use dinosaurs as appliances, MacFarlane relented and allowed Fox to let go of the show’s writing team. Though, gentleman that he is, MacFarlane did promise some of them spots on the actually funny American Dad should it get renewed for another season. Seeing as how he could have just as easily offered them work on The Cleveland Show, we’d say that’s a pretty generous move on his part.
So, alas, the world was just not ready to have The Flintstones shredded apart and repurposed to fit the MacFarlaneanimation model. It looks like we’ll just have to settle for 10-second non sequitur references on Family Guy instead of an entire 30 minutes of our childhood memories being bastardized. Yabba dabba boo.
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