[Groop]Cartoon show....

Mark Evanier mail at evanier.com
Sun Mar 16 12:18:53 PST 2003


On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:03:18 EST, Yodazone at aol.com wrote:

>How about a Groo animated series???   How cool would that be?   Star Wars is 
>getting their own series by the cartoon network and look how many bad 
>cartoons are out there already.   Groo would make a funny show plus there are 
>tons of stories to adapt them from all of the comics.  Any chance of a series 
>happening?

ME: Not at the moment, and I guess I'm about to due to give a long
answer to this question again...

I've worked in the animation business for 25+ years.  More than ever
now, we have a situation where the studios that produce the shows want
to own the property in perpetuity.  They want it to become a corporate
asset the way Time-Warner owns Superman and Bugs Bunny, or Disney owns
Mickey Mouse and Goofy.  The only exception to this is when the
character is so famous and established before-hand that they don't
feel their investment is helping to make the property famous.

We've been approached a number of times about doing a GROO series.
Some of the offers expected to wind up owning the character.  Others
didn't but the company was demanding so much control that Sergio and I
felt we didn't want to entrust our silly barbarian to that situation.
So none of those deals have ever happened.

That said, there are occasions in the business where one finds
situations that one finds workable.  Sergio and I are currently
developing a cartoon series for Cartoon Network but it isn't GROO.  I
don't want to talk too much about it now because these things have a
way of falling through.  But we do have an animation project pending
and if it goes, it may give us the clout to do GROO the way we want.
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