EXCLUSIVE: Robert Downey Jr., Star Peabody and Sherman DreamWorks Animation

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Downey Jr., Star Peabody and Sherman DreamWorks Animation

Image credit: Everett collection; PRN PR PhotosDreamWorks animation is to find a way back to "WABAC Machine.

That is a computer-based device, which is used for talking, Nero dog Mr. Peabody and Sherman pet boy, the old Rocky & Rush ™ Show, travel time and explore the unlikely things about history's greatest figures. The project was announced only internally to the DreamWorks-staff with Robert Downey Jr. sound super smart, bespectacled canine signed.

Comics, was created in the 1950s and ' 60s, but remained popular for decades, even though they may have fallen off the radar for those younger than 30. A new animated film planned for 2014, the aim is to bring back the mainstream pop culture duo. "Certainly for Boomers, they are our childhood memories of the sweet spot of the animation, but it gets a little out there more, well, not quite as familiar," says director Rob Minkoff (Lion King).

The script has been penned by Jeffrey Ventimilia and Joshua Stern, who wrote for the Simpsons, "that 70s Show and customize the Yogi Bear the last feature-version. Minkoff not divulge what historical figures Peabody and Sherman will meet, but said, the film focuses on not only their time on the road, but also the story of their origin.

"Mr. Peabody is this genetic anomaly" Minkoff says. "He has brothers and sisters, all of them talking, not super smart dogs. He is outcast, but has to win by being so large, so many things. " Sherman, not instead of, but of course not the dimwitted wide eyed and naive. This role has not yet been received.

Minkoff, said the Studio considered filmmaking such as animation and live action, but chose instead to make it a fully animated 3D computer — and, as the case may be.

CNN.com does not recognise any rows yet, but DreamWorks artists have already designed the concept of a picture of how the new Mr. Peabody displays. See the next question for Entertainment Weekly, out Jan 21, and note the strange resemblance to Iron Man star.