LIVE-ACTION TOM AND JERRY MOVIE (2021) | And MORE Retro News!

Its Retro News Friday!  Got some updated news on the live-action Tom and Jerry movie that’s in the works, a Night of the Comet Reboot is being made, there's some cool retro 3d Captain Marvel posters, and tons more stuff to talk about.  So don’t turn that dial!

Waddup to my Peoples and welcome to RETRO CRUNCH.  Your Nostalgia channel where we talk about current news that relates to ALL things RETRO.

Tom and Jerry..      Awesome cartoon,    has pretty much been on TV since 1940 and to this day is still one of the favorite cartoons among 80s and 90s kids. 

There's been 14 Tom and Jerry movies since 1992, but Tom and Jerry: The movie was the only one that ever got a Theatrical movie release in 1992.  All The rest were straight to video.

But in an update to the Live-Action Tom And Jerry movie news I dropped a few months ago.  Ill link to that news right up here…

Warner Brothers has finally revealed that the so far UNTITLED Tom and Jerry movie will be released on April 16th, 2021. 

There's also mention that it is going to be a hybrid animation and live-action movie.  But this makes me wonder. 

Are we going to see something like what was done with Space Jam, where Michael Jordan was real, but all the cartoon characters were animated, or will it be a mix of CGI and cartoon animation. 

Id actually like to see both.  Maybe start the movie where tom and jerry are in a cartoon, but when they get pulled into the REAL world, they are life like with some good CGI animation. 

Would be cool to see in a Tom and Jerry movie. 

What do you think??

The other thing that hasn't been announced is, who will be starring in the movie.  Im sure it will be a well known actor, whether they play a bad guy or friend..      Maybe a Camron Diaz, or a Will Smith.. 

Common Warner Brothers.. Enquiring minds, wanna know!!

Then next up.   It was announced last year that were getting a remake of the 1984 classic Night of the Comet, but at that time - there wasn’t much news on the project. 

And if you haven't seen this movie.  It centers around a couple of girls that survive a comet that crashes in California and they discover they are the only survivors, and everyone else is now  Zombies. 

Its campy, but has a lot of funny one liners and I must have watched it a hundred times over summer break when I was a kid.

Well, during an interview with the director Roxanne Benjamin this week at the SOUTH by SOUTHWEST festival in Austin - she said they finished the script.  She didn’t mention WHEN she plans to start working on this movie, but I guess it’s a start.

If you remember Night of the comet, let me know about it in the comments..  I know I cant be the only one who loved this cheezy flick growing up.

Then if you remember looking at those Magic Eye books and posters from the 1990s.   Well, in a throwback promotion on Captain Marvels twitter, they posted  5 of those magic eye illusions.  

Man those things drove me nuts.   Id usually see them in the Mall or sometimes on a friends wall in their bedroom.  They were fun tho..  For a bout 5 seconds, then when you see the 3d illusion your all like.. Ahhhh…  ok..

Then on to our Retro Flash News!

If you were always too lazy or didn’t want to read Homers Mythical tales,  the centuries old  ILIAD has been made into a graphic novel.  The book just came out Tuesday - go support your local comic book store!

And, for those that loved old school game shows!  the 1978 game show Card Sharks and the 1983 game show Press Your Luck are getting revivals.

Also..  Wanna feel older than dirt?     Google just turned 30 years old!  And to celebrate, they posted a doodle of a old PC with a dial up modem on their homepage, just to remind us how old we are….