>Dreamworks buys the rights to pic related in 2014
>Does absolutely nothing with it almost 10 years later
Literally what was the point of this?
>INB4 that one recent comic
They didn't make it, they just lent the license to some random comic book publisher
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Hard to get the most out of content when Felix was meant for surrealist, hard PG and up kind of weird content with no consistent supporting cast, and Don wants them to include all the 50s shit and be very kiddish
If I had to guess, this is probably another Betty Boop situation where they prefer to play safe and just sell merch.
Don still has a say on the matter? I thought he fricked off for good.
All I've seen is merch in UNIVRS (store on universal city walk)
I want a movie or a show revival dammit. They (dreamworks) fumbles new franchises like crazy but when it's an existing franchise they attempt to craft something that's like actually good or at least better than ruby gillman.
I thought this comic is supposed to come out this fall
If they did something with him some idiots would b***h about it saying "Did You know that Felix's creator was a pedophile?!" and shit
Isn't the creator fricking dead lol? Who fricking cares. Like the art not the artist AND pretty sure most artists prior and now are pedos anyway
>some idiots would b***h about it saying "Did You know that Felix's creator was a pedophile?!" and shit
We don't even know if that's true. There were at least two guys involved within his cartoons and it's been never clarified who came up with the idea first.
>some American claims he created Felix long long after the original creator died and has no proof
Gay or normal pedophile ?
so of the best creators are pedos, who cares
at least release a bluray collection, damn
i thougt he was public domain
He is. Dreamworks only has exclusive rights to stuff that isn't public domain (ie 50s cartoon, Twisted Tales, etc) and the trademark, but there's debate about how much trademark can protect something that's partly public domain
damn
Sometimes I fantasize about seeing a remake of the NES game. It's to kino for a licensed game, lot alone one based on the lame 60s show
i would buy that remake in a heart beat
frickin love that game
the russian bootleg is better
Super underrated gem.
they need to use him for official porn
is dreamworks that anal about their copyright? They never acknowledge they own felix like ever
So Disney wouldn't have it. Their IP collection is full of shit so Disney couldn't get ahold of it, that's why they don't do too much else with it otherwise
jeeze. i thought frankenstien was public domain, like how the little mermaid is.
i really dont want bootlegs of felix, i mostly just want him as a property used more in things. He's so underrated and is actually interesting unlike mickey mouse
Frankenstein *is* public domain, but you have to either come up with your own interpretation of the Creation and other characters and make sure it doesn’t overtly resemble the Universal design. Anon seems to be confused in that works in the public domain *can* be used free of charge, the issue is having to adhere specifically to the materials available only in the PD and avoid stepping on trademark, like for a while. you had to be careful about how you used Sherlock Holmes to keep it PD because the Doyle Estate still had claim of some novels and storylines and supporting characters. Now that all the novels are in the public domain, that’s less the case, and plenty of people have rightfully won court cases where similar cases of leeches tried to get someone in hot water for using PD stuff
Is it bad that I kind of like the Joe Oriolo series? It surely is cheap as hell and has nothing to do with OG Felix but given that it's a '59 cartoon that's probably the best they could do. Replicating the silent film's surrealism and overall atmosphere on TV would've been outright impossible at the time. The change was inevitable.
I thought most complaints stemmed from Don's insistence in using the 50s show as the template for every single reboot and not so much the show on itself.
I personally gave it a watch and didn't have any strong feelings for it.
Twisted Tales is MY Felix.
Twited tales was the perfect Felix, it combined the surrealist wacky style of original Felix with Don oriolo stuff like the magic bag and some characters for that time.
for real I've never understand how they never tried a revival or a show with the same idea.
Man this makes me realize how much I miss the characters, one could think Felix would have more respect knowing he's the grandfather of every cartoon animal in existance, influencing oswald, mickey, bugs bunny, and even sonic the hedgehog.
The issue is it seems nobody know what to do with him. Like, Mickey has the "everyman" role basically monopolized to the point it's now bland, and the suits are probably be too scared of risking Felix's image to do anything super risky even if it would be interesting. It's quite ironic; a lot of the Golden Age characters are seen as too valuable to take risks on, to the point you can't even write them as they were during the Golden Age of Animation out of fear of alienation. Which sucks because it probably wouldn't be too hard to make something interesting with them either.
A Netflix show has always been something they wanted to do, but for some reason it hasn’t happened.
It’s just something showrunners for other Netflix shows if theirs mention from time to time since at least 2017
netflix would give it 8 episodes then scrap it
Sometimes massive companies just frick around and buy and IP just so no one else can use it. Viacom has owned Garfield since like 2016 yet I don't think there's been a single cartoon made by them yet.
I find it amazing how in 20 years, the vast majority of the most famous Cinemaphile characters from the West will be in the public domain.
Like holy shit, I don't think anything else made me realize just how creatively bankrupt the West really has been. Everything famous is from before the 60s and Americans have just basically been resurrecting them and remaking them so much that they are now almost a 100 years old.
copyright and intellectual property law have put a big stranglehold on creativity. fiction hasn't always been like this. you didnt always need to modify an almost stock character just to get published
>fiction hasn't always been like this
Dude, as a civilization we spent centuries writing what was essentially fanfiction of the Iliad, Odyssey, Bible, Beowulf, and Arthurian stories.
It's just the sheer volume and ease of publishing dwarfs the incredible length of time we used to spend running stories and characters into the ground.
Seriously, it was like 700 years of fanfic before we got Le mort d'Arthur, and we kept fricking going for another 500 years.
Old comic book and cartoon characters haven't even BEGUN to be run into the ground.
Lancelot is basically some french guy's OC Donut Steel, and that's not getting into the fact we are STILL using Auturian legend as a story device in fiction. Hell, Scooby fricking Doo has been going on in one way or another since 1969, Godlen Age cartoons getting driven into the ground is an inevitability, its just going to be when not if.
only notable modern Cinemaphile characters I can think of are spongebob, pony girls, courage, chowder, mordecai and rigby, homer simpson/bart, scooby doo, ninja turtles, rugrats, samurai jack, and I guess woody and buzz
WHO IS THE BOSS
it could always be worse. imagine if disney had him
They were developing a show and it got canceled. No one gave a frick when I leaked concept art for it here two years ago though
>I leaked concept art for it here two years ago
Are you an insider? Anything else you can tell us?
>The Felix the cat shoe used Cuphead as concept art inspiration
Damn well I'll be
>The Felix the Cat shoe used Cuphead as concept art inspiration
Pretty sure it would be the other way around but ok
What the frick? This looks good. When was this even leaked. I didnt even know about this. Was this supposed to be on a channel or streaming service?
I did, but I realized this was going to be like the 5th concept we know of in the past decade that got scrapped
This homie is never getting a show to come out
Not sure if this was the same project but The Animation Guild, all the way back in early 2016, mentioned a Felix co-production with WildBrain (then called DHX).
http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-animated-production-among-us-again.html
Felixbros? We're doing alright?