Live action Dexter's Laboratory moive
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Personally, I never really liked the show, so I'd say no.
But who knows. If it's executed well, it could very well be good.
But who knows. If it's executed well, it could very well be good.
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Even though I am new here, I, Timbox, know and love Dexter's Laboratory very well. Very well indeed. Dexter's Laboratory is my all-time favorite Cartoon Network show, as much as James Cameron's 2009 3D science fiction movie, AVATAR, may be my all-time favorite movie. Now, there are millions of Dexter's Laboratory and Cartoon Network fans in the world, and many, or even some of them (myself included), have dreamed of a great big screen, big budget movie, animated, live action, or maybe both, of Dexter's Laboratory.
But I've browsed through sites like Ain't It Cool News, and the IGN Boards where I have discovered rumors of a live action movie of Dexter's Laboratory, and the first reactions to such rumors from some of you, especially here, are that of fear, that of contempt and that of skepticism. As for such concerns about a live action Dexter's Lab movie, I'm a little nervous about the job ahead of you or me...now I know the feeling of true terror from some of you.
But I do not seek to make yet another bad live action and/or animated movie based on a TV cartoon or any other source material other than books (which were usually known for using stuff that detracts from the original source materials other than books; think Hollywood's disengagements with the video game industry (evidenced in such movies as Street Fighter, and even Super Mario Brothers), and, closer to home (in terms of TV cartoons), the unfortunate Alvin and the Chipmunks experiment of today); and specifically, I do not intend to make such; I will be making a Dexter's Laboratory movie like I will be telling a serious, epic, true story--just like I feel when reading a book or watching a show. I'll be on my way to end a barren spell (After all, We all know Cartoon Network's 2002 effort to bring the origin story of the Powerpuff Girls from the small screen to the big screen was generally considered a flop, and as a consequence, CN may never get past the Powerpuff Girls Movie, which is notorious in many circles for the fact that, as a box office failure, it prevented Cartoon Network from making and green lighting another theatrical big screen movie based on any of their own shows or properties or franchises ever again, hence that barren spell)
I want to take moviegoers, Dexter's Laboratory/Powerpuff Girls/Cartoon Network fans, and even you guys, into a Middle-Earth-like world which I call "Timboxia" but in a way that is believable and powerful. Imagine this:
10,000 years have gone by since my Dexter's Laboratory movie started. We take a film crew to Townsville Harbor and the City-Land of Townsville. It's looking older, but still impresses as a popular tourist attraction, much akin to Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The Art Department set to work, patching up holes and removing tourist signs. The current owner strikes a hard bargain, but money from a studio like Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, Universal Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Cartoon Network and/or New Regency Enterprises and/or the like finally gets us permission to film there for six or seven or even eight weeks.
Deep-sea diving expeditions have unearthed the incredibly preserved shipwreck of one of Mandark's warships. We make an exact miniature model copy of Mandark's Astronomean hi-tech warship and use CGI to give us a 100-strong naval fleet of the Dark Forces led by the evil Dark Lord Mandark. We have cast actors as the live action reference stand in basis for the two-dimensional hand drawn cartoon (or "Toona'kaiya", which means, "animated (or cartoon) being)characters like Dexter, his sister, Dee Dee, her friends, Lee Lee and Mee Mee, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup (The Powerpuff Girls themselves), Professor Utonium, and Mojo Jojo and we will later digitally remove the actors and digitally replace them with the 2D hand drawn toons, and, complete with non-photorealistic CGI lighting and shadows, digitally match them to the live action plates (just like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but using digital effects and compositing and manipulation tools as well as digital paint software programs, instead of the old, photochemical optical compositing and traditional ink and paint techniques used to bring the combination of animated cartoons and human actors together in that film) to perfect their parts in this cinematic telling of the events at the end of Mandark's reign of terror as Dark Lord.
They stand on the new battlements on the Waterfront, wind blowing in their hair...Rain towers send gallons of water into the air...Huge lightning rigs, flash simulated lightning...On an assistant director's signal, ten or twelve or fifteen or even twenty, 15/70 mm IMAX proprietary film camera systems or so, start rolling simultaneously...The battle of Townsville Harbor is about to be captured on 15/70 mm IMAX film or so. (Please bear in mind that one-third of the Dexter's Laboratory movie will be shot in 3-D (in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio), with another one-third on 2D 24-P high definition digital video (also in a 2.35:1 ratio, and yet another one-third using 15/70 mm IMAX proprietary film camera systems.)
Please also bear in mind that the Dexter's Lab movie of mine should be released in a dozen parts (12 or so) that each runs to a duration of three hours or more or so, but it will be made concurrently, back-to-back, at once, and at the same time as a single, albeit very long narrative. And it should adapt, adopt, and even combine 2D traditional hand drawn animation, CGI, full-scale animatronics, some human actors, special and visual effects both old and new and even a world otherwise fabricated from live action, miniature model and digital CG environments, in a more sophisticated and immersive combination of the Who Framed Roger Rabbit tradition, the Jurassic Park tradition, the Lord of the Rings tradition and even the James Cameron's AVATAR tradition. A facility like Skywalker Sound and/or the like will provide the post production sound, sound effects, and even the sound design work, while the music for the Dexter's Laboratory movie will be a combination of traditional orchestra, electronic sounds, ethereal choirs, ethnic instruments, ethnic vocals, ethnic woodwinds and even ethnic percussion. I should let a special effects facility like Peter Jackson's Weta Digital facility and/or the like to tackle the integration of the Dexter's Laboratory characters or so into live action/miniature model/CG environments and I should let George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic facility (or ILM for short) and/or the like to do the same thing with the Powerpuff Girls characters or so. This is gonna be the most ambitious movie project the world would ever see since Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie and James Cameron's AVATAR movie.
And as for the plot:
Wanting to learn more about girls, Dexter Odysseus Zarus, or Dexter, for short, spies on Dee Dee, Lee Lee, and Mee Mee, as they throw a slumber party in Dee Dee's room. When they spot him, however, Dexter and Lee Lee began to fall in love, all without disgracing Dee Dee, Mee Mee, Dexter's Mom and Dad, and even everyone else. Dexter soon learns that Lee Lee, as the legendary, prophesied "Princess of Shangara" turned out to be the last hope for the free peoples of Timboxia (which is, like Middle-Earth, a richly imagined, mythical, and even highly technological primordial world populated with humans, cartoon characters (or, Toona'kaiya, meaning animated being(s)), dinosaurs, and other strange creatures), as well as her native people, The Shangarans, who dwelt in the Land of Shangara (a Far Eastern Asian-inspired kingdom), and as the last hope for such people, Lee Lee is to save the world from the forces of the evil Dark Lord, Mandark, who, according to prophecy, Lee Lee would one day destroy. And as for the solution: Dexter, Dee Dee, Lee Lee, and Mee Mee must travel across the lands of Timboxia all the way to Mandark's territory, Astronoma, so that Lee Lee would fulfill the ancient prophecy and end the evil reign of Mandark by destroying the malevolent overlord and his powers in the volcanic fires from which Mandark was born, made, and raised from.
That Dexter's Laboratory movie project of mine could be and will be Dexter's Odyssey.
Sorry for rambling on, Sorry it is a very long post, and sorry for being off-topic, and sure, it may not really be my Dexter's Laboratory or my The Powerpuff Girls, but if it's done well, if not, very well, very good or very great, it could still be a pretty damn cool movie or two or more.
But I've browsed through sites like Ain't It Cool News, and the IGN Boards where I have discovered rumors of a live action movie of Dexter's Laboratory, and the first reactions to such rumors from some of you, especially here, are that of fear, that of contempt and that of skepticism. As for such concerns about a live action Dexter's Lab movie, I'm a little nervous about the job ahead of you or me...now I know the feeling of true terror from some of you.
But I do not seek to make yet another bad live action and/or animated movie based on a TV cartoon or any other source material other than books (which were usually known for using stuff that detracts from the original source materials other than books; think Hollywood's disengagements with the video game industry (evidenced in such movies as Street Fighter, and even Super Mario Brothers), and, closer to home (in terms of TV cartoons), the unfortunate Alvin and the Chipmunks experiment of today); and specifically, I do not intend to make such; I will be making a Dexter's Laboratory movie like I will be telling a serious, epic, true story--just like I feel when reading a book or watching a show. I'll be on my way to end a barren spell (After all, We all know Cartoon Network's 2002 effort to bring the origin story of the Powerpuff Girls from the small screen to the big screen was generally considered a flop, and as a consequence, CN may never get past the Powerpuff Girls Movie, which is notorious in many circles for the fact that, as a box office failure, it prevented Cartoon Network from making and green lighting another theatrical big screen movie based on any of their own shows or properties or franchises ever again, hence that barren spell)
I want to take moviegoers, Dexter's Laboratory/Powerpuff Girls/Cartoon Network fans, and even you guys, into a Middle-Earth-like world which I call "Timboxia" but in a way that is believable and powerful. Imagine this:
10,000 years have gone by since my Dexter's Laboratory movie started. We take a film crew to Townsville Harbor and the City-Land of Townsville. It's looking older, but still impresses as a popular tourist attraction, much akin to Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The Art Department set to work, patching up holes and removing tourist signs. The current owner strikes a hard bargain, but money from a studio like Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, Universal Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Cartoon Network and/or New Regency Enterprises and/or the like finally gets us permission to film there for six or seven or even eight weeks.
Deep-sea diving expeditions have unearthed the incredibly preserved shipwreck of one of Mandark's warships. We make an exact miniature model copy of Mandark's Astronomean hi-tech warship and use CGI to give us a 100-strong naval fleet of the Dark Forces led by the evil Dark Lord Mandark. We have cast actors as the live action reference stand in basis for the two-dimensional hand drawn cartoon (or "Toona'kaiya", which means, "animated (or cartoon) being)characters like Dexter, his sister, Dee Dee, her friends, Lee Lee and Mee Mee, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup (The Powerpuff Girls themselves), Professor Utonium, and Mojo Jojo and we will later digitally remove the actors and digitally replace them with the 2D hand drawn toons, and, complete with non-photorealistic CGI lighting and shadows, digitally match them to the live action plates (just like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but using digital effects and compositing and manipulation tools as well as digital paint software programs, instead of the old, photochemical optical compositing and traditional ink and paint techniques used to bring the combination of animated cartoons and human actors together in that film) to perfect their parts in this cinematic telling of the events at the end of Mandark's reign of terror as Dark Lord.
They stand on the new battlements on the Waterfront, wind blowing in their hair...Rain towers send gallons of water into the air...Huge lightning rigs, flash simulated lightning...On an assistant director's signal, ten or twelve or fifteen or even twenty, 15/70 mm IMAX proprietary film camera systems or so, start rolling simultaneously...The battle of Townsville Harbor is about to be captured on 15/70 mm IMAX film or so. (Please bear in mind that one-third of the Dexter's Laboratory movie will be shot in 3-D (in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio), with another one-third on 2D 24-P high definition digital video (also in a 2.35:1 ratio, and yet another one-third using 15/70 mm IMAX proprietary film camera systems.)
Please also bear in mind that the Dexter's Lab movie of mine should be released in a dozen parts (12 or so) that each runs to a duration of three hours or more or so, but it will be made concurrently, back-to-back, at once, and at the same time as a single, albeit very long narrative. And it should adapt, adopt, and even combine 2D traditional hand drawn animation, CGI, full-scale animatronics, some human actors, special and visual effects both old and new and even a world otherwise fabricated from live action, miniature model and digital CG environments, in a more sophisticated and immersive combination of the Who Framed Roger Rabbit tradition, the Jurassic Park tradition, the Lord of the Rings tradition and even the James Cameron's AVATAR tradition. A facility like Skywalker Sound and/or the like will provide the post production sound, sound effects, and even the sound design work, while the music for the Dexter's Laboratory movie will be a combination of traditional orchestra, electronic sounds, ethereal choirs, ethnic instruments, ethnic vocals, ethnic woodwinds and even ethnic percussion. I should let a special effects facility like Peter Jackson's Weta Digital facility and/or the like to tackle the integration of the Dexter's Laboratory characters or so into live action/miniature model/CG environments and I should let George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic facility (or ILM for short) and/or the like to do the same thing with the Powerpuff Girls characters or so. This is gonna be the most ambitious movie project the world would ever see since Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie and James Cameron's AVATAR movie.
And as for the plot:
Wanting to learn more about girls, Dexter Odysseus Zarus, or Dexter, for short, spies on Dee Dee, Lee Lee, and Mee Mee, as they throw a slumber party in Dee Dee's room. When they spot him, however, Dexter and Lee Lee began to fall in love, all without disgracing Dee Dee, Mee Mee, Dexter's Mom and Dad, and even everyone else. Dexter soon learns that Lee Lee, as the legendary, prophesied "Princess of Shangara" turned out to be the last hope for the free peoples of Timboxia (which is, like Middle-Earth, a richly imagined, mythical, and even highly technological primordial world populated with humans, cartoon characters (or, Toona'kaiya, meaning animated being(s)), dinosaurs, and other strange creatures), as well as her native people, The Shangarans, who dwelt in the Land of Shangara (a Far Eastern Asian-inspired kingdom), and as the last hope for such people, Lee Lee is to save the world from the forces of the evil Dark Lord, Mandark, who, according to prophecy, Lee Lee would one day destroy. And as for the solution: Dexter, Dee Dee, Lee Lee, and Mee Mee must travel across the lands of Timboxia all the way to Mandark's territory, Astronoma, so that Lee Lee would fulfill the ancient prophecy and end the evil reign of Mandark by destroying the malevolent overlord and his powers in the volcanic fires from which Mandark was born, made, and raised from.
That Dexter's Laboratory movie project of mine could be and will be Dexter's Odyssey.
Sorry for rambling on, Sorry it is a very long post, and sorry for being off-topic, and sure, it may not really be my Dexter's Laboratory or my The Powerpuff Girls, but if it's done well, if not, very well, very good or very great, it could still be a pretty damn cool movie or two or more.
They touch anymore of my Childhood Cartoons and i will kill someone! I am fucking sick of Hollywood Movies ruining every Cartoon they can get their hands on. i will start a petition if i have to but i will not stand for my childhood memories destroyed by Hollywood!
No, I doubt it would be a good moive, but that's because no live-action versions of cartoons have ever managed to be good (at least, as far as I know).
I suppose it could be good with the right direction, but I think that Dexter's Lab would be an especially difficult source to nail, since one of the greatest things it had going for it was all of its zany cartoon antics, something you couldn't effectively translate to live-action.
I suppose it could be good with the right direction, but I think that Dexter's Lab would be an especially difficult source to nail, since one of the greatest things it had going for it was all of its zany cartoon antics, something you couldn't effectively translate to live-action.
No. It wouldn't. Because they never do the fucking movie right. Wouldn't mind seeing an animated movie, though. They're more likely to get that right.
Oh hell no!!! Don't even think about giving anybody that idea. My childhood cartoons have suffered enough over these past 10-15 years thankyou!!!
Well, if they managed to find a loud little red head and a stupid bean-pole blonde and get a good story going... sure.
They'd have to do it really cartoony, though.
They'd have to do it really cartoony, though.
Um... no. Because they would make it pretty much a reboot rather than keep the original air of it all.
