Back in 2012, Warner Bros. had plans to reboot the Looney Tunes for a new big screen, once again incorporating live action and CGI as they did in Space Jam and Looney Tunes: Back in Action. Writing the script would be Jenny Slate, a former SNL actress best known then as the cast member who dropped the f-bomb on one of her first skits.
Needless to say, nothing become of that project, and its origins quietly faded away while Slate would go on to indie fame with her hit film Obvious Child. Now that she is good fame, however, she has finally been asked what exactly happened with that film.
Talking to Yahoo, she revealed the fate of that Looney Tunes script.
“It was very, very fun to write it, but in the end, I don’t think I was able to be as formulaic and mainstream as that movie needs,” the Married co-star said. ""“It really needs that. It’s a very old, very important franchise, and if it’s going to be done, I think it really has to be a more mainstream thing. And I don’t know that I’m really interested in being that voice.”
That's a honest, but not begrudging, answer from the writer/actress. She keeps her self-effacing attitude here, while not necessarily putting down her work or the opinions of her superiors. That said, however, she would still like to hold the pen of a major motion picture.
“I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that’s for me to be in,"" she attested.
Regardless of Slate's involvement, it appears that rebooting Looney Tunes is still a property that Warner Bros. is interested in exploring. Over the summer, it was announced that Steve Carrell would be in a Looney Tunes spin-off, which is among the first of a planned new cinematic universe for the Looney Tunes.
Slate, meanwhile, has been seen earlier this year in the aforementioned Obvious Child and Married, and has also appeared in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Bob's Burgers, The Longest Week, Parks and Recreation, House of Lies and Kroll Show.