Paramount is looking to recreate the success of the “Alvin and the Chipmunks” movie-turned-franchise with a big screen screen reboot of “Mighty Mouse.” And by already setting the quality bar abysmally low, don’t hold your breath for anything that turns out remotely good or interesting.
No writer or director is slated, but apparently the project has been kicking around for awhile, and the studio already has a draft of a script by Brian and Mark Gunn (“Journey to the Center of the Earth 2”). However, the studio wants to start fresh, so the project will be going out to new writers.
While kids these days will have no idea who the caped mouse is, older kids/adults will remember “Mighty Mouse” as a satire of old hero serials and as a direct parody of Super-Man. The villain antagonists were all cats, his biggest threat being Oli Can Harry while Mitzi and Pearl Pureheart were the love interests. Pop culture fiends probably best known the theme song which comedian Andy Kaufman used for an iconic bit during the early days of Saturday Night Live (see below).
While the LA Times speculates that the film might get some kind of subversive, meta-treatment we sort of doubt it. Our guess is that it will be a 3D CGI abomination that reintroduces the character for a whole new generation of kids, that will make parents, once again, hate taking their kids to the theater for non-Pixar movies.
