Looney Tunes Porky Cartoons ‘The Day the Earth Blew Up’
Here, you heard that right. The long-hating Looney Tunes movie The Day the Earth Blows Up, featuring everyone’s favorite Madat pairing Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, is finally headed our way in case you need a bit of a refresher on this constantly changing story.
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The long-awaited Tunes movie was announced over 2 years ago, back in September 2021, and was intended to be the first of a potential long lineup of Looney Tunes cartoon spin-off television movies produced in the same style as the recent Revival series of tunes, which came to an end earlier this year after offering fans 1,000 minutes of all new Looney Tunes shorts in July 2022. Warner announced this title of film to be the day the Earth blew up and emerged to the over-the-top corny campy Sci-Fi action flicks of the 1950s.
They confirmed that the film was set to hit HBO Max sometime very soon, with a roughly animated scene even released publicly that September. Of course, in late 2022, Warner Brothers made it clear that they were facing rough times and began canceling projects left and right, and Center, a theatrically scheduled and practically completed Batgirl movie, was cancelled altogether as a tax write-off, and in an event I dubbed the Water Animation Decimation.
Dozens of animated series specials and movies got removed from HBO Max and all online platforms, while a handful of in-works animated productions, including a scooby Christmas special, a Batman Christmas special, and a number of Looney Tunes movies, were announced to be cancelled altogether or shopped around to other distributors and platforms. Amongst the titles caught in the Wildfire was The Day the Earth Blasted Up.
Skip forward to June of this year, 2023, and Warner finally announced that the film was still in production and set for a relatively soon release. Along with this news, Warners made it evident that the film was changing titles from The Day the Earth Blows Up to Bubble Brain in a likely p.I.C. and ridiculous marketing move from the studio. However, we’ve now got news that not only is the movie retaining its original title, but it’s finally definitely on the way with independent distributor GFM Animation picking up global theatrical distribution rights to the picture.
That’s right this means the tunes are headed back to the big screen in what GM is touting as the first ever fully animated Looney Tunes featurelength movie created for a movie theater audience. Of course, the tunes have hit the big screen dozens of times, but previous features have either been live-action animation hybrids like the Space Jam films and Looney Tunes Back in Action or package features compiling classic cartoons with newly animated linking segments.
There have also been a number of Looney Tunes television or director video movies such as Looney Tunes Rabbits Run and Bar Humduck are Looney Tunes Christmas, so what began as one of these Looney Tunes TV movies has now become one of the most important and historic Looney Tunes features ever created. as another refresher, according to Warner’s now 2-year-old synopsis. The daily Earth blowup sees Pory and Daffy out to save the world from a full-scale alien assault.
Planet Earth faces the threat of an alien invasion, and humanity’s only hope lies with Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, starring the classic animated Odd Couple. This SFI buddy action comedy turns FY and Daffy into unlikely heroes when their antics at the local bubblegum factory uncover a secret alien mind control plot against all ODS. The two are determined to save their town and the world, i.e., if they do not drive each other crazy in the process.
It’s been announced that GFM will share first-look footage at the upcoming American Film Market between October 31 and November 5, 2023, but until then, a brand new still from the film has been released, featuring not only Pory and Daffy but Porky’s longtime, often forgotten love interest Petunia Pig, as a side note, is the only other classic Looney Tunes character who has actually been announced to be starring in this film alongside Pory and Daffy.
Though I’m sure we’ll be seeing others like Bugs Bunny appearing throughout the film as well. This is actually the first fully animated frame we’ve got to see from the film so far, with only rough animation and promotional imagery released to this point. We can instantly see that great retro Looney Tunes cartoon style here, and going by Daffy’s Design will absolutely be getting a vintage portrayal of everyone’s favorite screw ball duck from the exact same team who produced those television cartoons of the movie.
Sam Register, president of Warner Brothers Animation, and Cartoon Network Studios said how artists have created an incredible Looney Tunes film that follows in the cinematic tradition of when audiences first fell in love with these characters. gfm animation are the perfect partners to help us bring pory and Daffy back to their rightful place on the big screen, while guy Collins, GM’s chairman, said it’s thrilling for the teams here at gfm animation to be handling the worldwide distribution sales on a movie with such iconic IP working with the terrific team at Warner Brothers Animation.
It is great to see all their amazing hard work progressing at this advanced stage of production. Independents really get to work on movies with such Affinity awareness from fans worldwide and we know they are going to love pory and daffy’s sci-fi Adventure just as much as we do as gfm are a very small independent company you’d be forgiven if some of their releases have flown completely under your radar such as the upcoming Stitch head starring Asa Butterfield the recent leonado DiCaprio produced Eco film.
Aussie voice of the forest or even the ill- fated 2018 here comes the Trump based on the classic dep Patti Freeland cartoons currently their highest profile production is Rob Minkoff and Mel Brooks’s pors of Fury the legend of Hank which was released by Paramount Pictures as a Nickelodeon movie in the US in 2022. Thankfully, the empty promises are finally over, and Day the Earth Blows Up is officially due for completion in the second quarter of 2024.
Which means we could see this one release as early as the holiday season of next year or potentially over the UK summer season of 2025. Of course, there are a couple of other Looney Tunes features in the pipeline. We have an upcoming Wy Coyote liveaction animation hybrid film set to hit theaters next year that will follow Wy as he attempts to sue Acme Corporation after decades of malfunctioning products resulting in personal injuries, loss of business income, and mental suffering.
The rumor mill suggests this one will co-star John Cena as the corporation’s evil CEO while it’s been on and off Warner Brothers theatrical schedule and is currently undated despite at one point even being set for release this year. Industry sources tell me that a trailer is set to drop imminently. There’s also bye-bye Bunny touted as the first ever original Looney Tunes musical featuring original song and dance numbers and new orchestrations from the Warner Brothers library of legendary movie musicals, which will see!
Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes Coast Stars begin a journey on a super rescue mission to save a kidnapped Daffy Duck. Unfortunately, there’s still no news on this one just yet, but the last update we had maybe a year or so ago suggests that it is certainly still on the way. But for now, I am very happy with this big Looney Tunes win.
Not only are we finally getting the absolutely Kick-Ass-sounding Porky and Daffy film, but it’s retaining its original Kickass title and its opening in Kickass. It’s all very welcome news and potentially the first sign that the Looney Tunes Renaissance isn’t over yet and is only just getting started, and at that, I want to know your thoughts on these new developments. Are you excited to see The Day the Earth blows up on the big screen?
