Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang in 3-D … Finally?

October 10, 2012

By Tom Blunt

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Snoopy and Charlie Brown/Illustration © Peanuts Inc.

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On the subject of technology run amok, let’s take a look at the 3-D animated “Peanuts” movie that’s in the works for 2015. I have concerns about what happens to sketchily drawn two-dimensional characters when you inflate them and give them lifelike skin textures, like we did to the Smurfs. Suddenly you can’t help contemplating their other odd anatomical details, like their skeleton or fingernails. Every adaptation we’ve seen so far adhered to the style of Charles Schulz‘s original cartoons. Is the world ready to scrutinize the “Peanuts” gang on a new level? You have three years to prepare yourselves.

Can this possibly be real? Reddit is the new home of some early “Jurassic Park 4″ concept art, answering the question that no one was really asking: “What would happen if a human bred with a dinosaur?” The movie died a lingering death in 2005, but holy smokes, clearly things got a little further along down the old evolutionary path than we realized.

Steven Spielberg insists that his “Lincoln” has no political agenda, and that he specifically requested a post-election release date — although, you will note that the limited release date, November 9, is almost a week ahead of the Presidential election. Scribe Tony Kushner has apparently given Lincoln’s First Lady a bit of a PR makeover as well, playing up her strength in the face of tragedy in hopes of laying to rest, as he put it, “the idea that she was nuts.”

Prof. Indiana Jones’ globe-trotting schedule probably makes it difficult to leap through all the administrative hoops necessary to further his academic career. For example, McSweeney’s has produced a draft of the letter denying him tenure: “In his nine years with the department, Dr. Jones has failed to complete even one uninterrupted semester of instruction,” the college board points out. ‘Tis a shame that no extra consideration is given for his having almost singlehandedly saved the world from Nazi takeover.

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Charles Schulz, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Peanuts, Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner