How do you know when your film career has hit a dead stop? When you begin to voice an animated version of the character that first brought you fame.
Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez and Aaron Ruell are set to reprise their roles from “Napolean Dynamite” in an animated version of the hit comedy. Fox has picked up the series and ordered six episodes of which we’re willing to bet will be the only ones ever made because really, does anyone care about this?
In other movie-to-TV news, the smash hit “How To Train Your Dragon” is going to continue minting money for DreamWorks with a weekly animated show that will air on the Cartoon Network in 2012, making a nice lead in for the feature film sequel in 2013. No word yet on who will be voicing the show but don’t expect the likes of Jay Baruchel, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig to get involved. They all actually have active, healthy film careers. [DigitalSpy/Deadline]
Except that Jonah Hill just signed on to write, produce and voice a Fox animated series (announced in the same press release as Napoleon Dynamite).