Ketchup Leisure dropped the trailer for “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Film” on February 28 forward of its March 14 theatrical launch. The indie picked up the Daffy Duck and Porky Pig sci-fi origin story final yr after Warner Bros. Discovery killed it for tax functions (just like the live-action/animated Looney Tunes hybrid “Coyote vs. Acme”).
The franchise’s first totally 2D-animated theatrical function finds Daffy and Porky (each voiced by Eric Bauza) stumbling onto a secret alien plot to take over the world through mind-control and chewing gum. However they try to gum up the works with their inimitable antics.
Director Peter Browngardt (“Looney Tunes Cartoons”) admirably captures the essence of the wacky odd couple with wit and heat, channeling the outrageous look and gags of his favourite Warner Bros. director Bob Clampett. “We wished the viewers caring about these characters,” Browngardt instructed IndieWire, “however nonetheless additionally realizing that we’re attempting to make a cartoon right here. And cartoons are form of the artwork of the not possible, so you are able to do the traditional Looney Tunes surrealist jokes or slapstick and push what a personality can do in animation.”
The ’50s sci-fi fan was impressed by “The Day the Earth Stood Nonetheless” together with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby “Highway” motion pictures. Introduced in CinemaScope, Warner Bros. Animation did nearly all of the work, with help from Tonic DNA, Powerhouse Animation, Snipple, and Titmouse Vancouver.
Browngardt selected Daffy and Porky as a result of they’re the one Looney Tunes buddy characters that aren’t attempting to kill every one other. In addition they present an interesting emotional core to hold the movie on. Daffy represents chaos, Porky counters with order, and so they drive one another nuts on the best way to changing into BFFs. Their designs have been modeled after the ’40s Clampett model.
Among the many highlights are the Busby Berkeley-esque musical quantity “Push the Button, Pull the Crank,” influenced by Artwork Deco posters with a lot of pink (recalling the surrealism of “Pink Elephants on Parade” from “Dumbo”) and a montage the place Daffy and Porky get fired from a sequence of gigs that finish violently for his or her employers.
Michael Baum served as line producer, Alex Kirwan as supervising producer, and Browngardt and Sam Register as govt producers. Nick Cross was artwork director and Aaron Spurgeon was the manufacturing designer. Voice expertise additionally consists of Candi Milo, Peter MacNicol, Wayne Knight, and Laraine Newman.