List of unreleased Warner Bros. animated shorts
Following is the list of the Looney Tunes animated short subjects proposed by either Warner Bros. Cartoon studio in the 1930s-1960s or Warner Bros. Animation in the 2000s. In 1945, Bob Clampett planned to direct a Looney Tunes cartoon that would fictionalize the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt but when Roosevelt died, the project was abandoned.[1] In the 1950s, Friz Freleng pondered the idea of a one-shot cartoon that would combine Marilyn Monroe's life with the fairy tale of Snow White, but this project was also shelved when it was deemed too similar to Monroe's own personal life.[2] Not all abandoned Looney Tunes shorts were one-shots, as Looney Tunes comprises several sub-series such as Bugs Bunny, Pepé Le Pew and Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, to name a few. It is no surprise that not all planned sub-series did not get off the ground, and many of them ended up either not being produced at all or being reworked into one-shots. Some of these sub-series were the Keystone Kops, Rapid Rabbit and the Quick Brown Fox, Corn Plastered, the Eager Beaver, the Canyon Kiddies, etc. None of these went so far as to have individual titles mapped out.[3][2]
In 2003, Warner Bros. Animation had plans to resume making Looney Tunes shorts, but after the box office failure of Looney Tunes Back in Action, Warner Bros. cancelled several short projects while still in development, as executives thought that interest in slapstick humor and traditional animation was vanishing. Most of these cartoons were in production under the supervision of Larry Doyle.[4]
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies - 19 titles[edit]
- LT = Looney Tunes
- MM = Merrie Melodies
| Title | Series | Characters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Jolly Good Fala | MM | Cancelled in 1945 | |
| Marilyn Monroe/Snow White project | LT or MM | Cancelled during the mid-1950s | |
| Executive Tweet | LT | Sylvester, Tweety, ghosts | Scrapped in 2004 |
| The Pig Stays in the Picture | LT | Porky, Porky's family | Scrapped in 2004 |
| A Very Daffy Christmas | LT | Daffy, elves | Scrapped in 2004 |
| What's Hip, Doc? | LT | Bugs, Elmer, supermodel | Scrapped in 2004 Jenna Elfman would have voiced the supermodel. |
| Full Metal Jackass | LT | Wile E. Coyote, the Road Runner | Scrapped in 2004 |
| Bada Bugs | LT | Bugs, Daffy, two mobsters | Scrapped in 2004 It was speculated that the two mobsters would actually have been Rocky and Mugsy. |
| Slacker Quacker | LT | Porky, Daffy | Scrapped in 2004 |
| Scheme Park | LT | Porky, Porky's family | Scrapped in 2004 |
| Beach Bunny | LT | Bugs, Beach Bully | Scrapped in 2004 Brendan Fraser would have voiced the Beach Bully. |
| Meat Me in Chicago | MM | Cow | Scrapped in 2004 |
| Deep Sea Bugs | LT | Bugs, Sam | Scrapped in 2004 |
| Baseball Taz | LT | Taz, Minor League Team, Rival Team's Monkey | Scrapped in 2004 |
| Dancing Pepe | LT | Pepé, Chipmunk, Chipmunk's friend | Scrapped in 2004 |
| Daffy Contractor | LT | Daffy, Porky | Scrapped in 2004 |
| Reaper Madness | LT | Granny, the Grim Reaper | Scrapped in 2004 |
| Duck Suped | LT | Daffy | Scrapped in 2004 |
| Guess Who's Coming to Meet the Parents | LT | Bugs, Squirrel, Bugs' parents | Scrapped in 2004 |
External links[edit]
- Larry Doyle being interviewed by Matthew Hunter in 2003 toolooney.goldenagecartoons.com
See also[edit]
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1970–present)
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action
- Looney Tunes
References[edit]
- ↑ A Jolly Good Fala at The Big Cartoon DataBase bcdb. May 9, 2011
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-12-20. Retrieved 2011-03-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link) - ↑ Cooke, Jon (16 October 2010). "Misce-Looney-ous: The Canyon Kiddies". toolooney.blogspot.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2009-06-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
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