Hanna-Barbera Shared Cinematic Universe

[Zorkel567]

While we’ve known for some time that Warner Bros. had a Scooby-Doo reboot planned for 2018, we learned much more about the project at CinemaCon 2016. One big revelation is that the movie will be titled S.C.O.O.B., and that it’ll launch a whole new wave of potentially interlocking Hanna-Barbera movies. Yes, that’s right — Warner Bros. is planning a Hanna-Barbera Cinematic Universe.

How this will work was not explained, as we were only shown a brief glimpse of concept art featuring Scooby-Doo and some sketches of other Hanna-Barbera characters. The exact quote used in a much longer over-arching WAG sizzle reel was that the film will be “our first shot at unlocking the whole Hanna-Barbera Universe.”

Other Hanna-Barbera properties include The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons, The Smurfs, Top Cat, Jonny Quest, Wacky Races, Sealab 2020, and many other cartoons, although some of those, like the Smurfs, are owned elsewhere and obviously couldn’t be part of this cinematic universe. There’s also the question of if and how they might cross over, considering they all take place in different settings and time periods. Aside from S.C.O.O.B., the studio has not announced release dates for any of other Hanna-Barbera movies.

WAG is led by a brain trust that includes Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Nicholas Stoller, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, and Jared Stern. Although the only completed film to come out of WAG so far is 2014’s The Lego Movie, they have many more planned in the coming years including Storks (out this fall), The Lego Batman Movie (2017), a Ninjago movie (also 2017) The Lego Movie 2 (2018), and Smallfoot (about a Yeti that believes humans are real).

Warner Bros. has been aggressively expanding its biggest franchises including the DC Extended Universe (which just released Batman v Superman and has many more films scheduled through 2020) and the Harry Potter universe (which will be revived this fall with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them).

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[dallywhitty]

Is this real life?

[spectre08]

I love it.

Shared cinematic universes are the best thing to happen to mainstream cinema in a long time

[Talzin78]

Do I smell a Blue Falcoln and Dyno Mutt movie?

[Astro Zombie]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

Is this real life?

It might just be fantasy

[imsounoriginal]

Actually sounds like a great idea... if the movies are animated. Can't see this working all that well with live-action adaptations. Would even take CG/3D animation.

[zeze]

If the new Scooby-Doo movie is animated hopefully they don't use the same design style as the TV series, "Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!". Can't believe what they did to them.

[Zorkel567]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

Actually sounds like a great idea... if the movies are animated. Can't see this working all that well with live-action adaptations. Would even take CG/3D animation.

It looks to be coming from Warner Animation Group, so yes, it should be animated.

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by Zorkel567

It looks to be coming from Warner Animation Group, so yes, it should be animated.

Missed that bit. In that case I say bring em on.

[dgoswald]

Originally Posted by Astro Zombie

It might just be fantasy

It's almost like we're caught in a landslide of shared universes.

[Dalekbuster523Bluray]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

Is this the real life?

Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality

Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see,
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Anyway the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

Mama, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead.
Mama, life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away.

Mama, ooh,
Didn't mean to make you cry,
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters.

Too late, my time has come,
Sent shivers down my spine,
Body's aching all the time.
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go,
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.

Mama, ooh (anyway the wind blows),
I don't wanna die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning,
Very, very frightening me.
(Galileo) Galileo.
(Galileo) Galileo,
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico.

I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me.
He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go. (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let me go!)
Will not let you go. (Let me go!)
Never, never let you go
Never let me go, oh.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, mama mia, mama mia (Mama mia, let me go.)
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me.

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby,
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here.

(Oh, yeah, oh yeah)

Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters,
Nothing really matters to me.

Anyway the wind blows.

[Astro Zombie]

Or we could just post all the lyrics at once that's more fun

[klauswhereareyou]

Now we can finally get the Snagglepuss movie we've been dreaming about since cinema was created back in 1895.

[Dalekbuster523Bluray]

Originally Posted by klauswhereareyou

Now we can finally get the Snagglepuss movie we've been dreaming about since cinema was created back in 1895.

I can't wait to see Scooby Doo take a Wacky Race around Bedrock whilst Yogi Bear hangs out with Cow and Chicken inside the Mystery Machine.

[jkington]

The Jetsons meet The Flintstones: Part 2

[Casval]

Wait a minute, Birdman isn't a lawyer anymore?
I'm out!

[captveg]

I don't have a problem with this since animation allows them to embrace their origins. In this way it's really no different than Fox with Ice Age or Disney/Pixar with Cars.

[Chaotic]

Might as well. Their DCEU isn't working out so well.

[karlpilkington4PM]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

Might as well. Their DCEU isn't working out so well.

yeah, well, if this is happening, I hope it includes some of the Super Friends, specifically the Wonder Twins.

[StevenHarvey1990]

Meh.