{"id":227619,"date":"2025-10-15T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/227619\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:14:08","slug":"jim-carrey-to-lead-live-action-movie-for-colin-trevorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/227619\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Carrey to Lead Live-Action Movie for Colin Trevorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJim Carrey<\/a> is zooming toward a live-action feature version of The Jetsons<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor is in talks to star in the project from Warner Bros.<\/a> Pictures that has Colin Trevorrow<\/a> attached to direct. Trevorrow and Joe Esptein are in talks to pen the script. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Jetsons, which debuted as an animated comedy series<\/a> on ABC in 1962, centered on a futuristic family comprised of George Jetson, wife Jane, their two kids, robot housekeeper Rosie and dog Astro. Hanna-Barbera produced the Space Age show that counted William Hanna and Joseph Barbera as co-creators.<\/p>\n

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\n\tA live-action feature version has been in various stages of development throughout the decades, with The Hollywood Reporter reporting in 2003 that Adam Shankman was attached to direct. Such filmmakers as Robert Rodriguez and Conrad Vernon have also been in talks at different stages over the years.<\/p>\n

\n\tBack in 2017, ABC ordered a pilot<\/a> for a live-action television version from executive producer Robert Zemeckis. The project did not end up going to series.<\/p>\n

\n\tCarrey\u2019s recent film credits have mostly been limited to his portrayal of Dr. Robotnik in Paramount\u2019s live-action Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, with the actor playing a dual role in last year\u2019s third theatrical installment. Carrey\u2019s last movie outside of the Sonic series was the drama Dark Crimes that made its festival premiere in 2016.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrevorrow\u2019s latest feature as a director was 2022\u2019s Jurassic World Dominion. Epstein served as showrunner and executive producer of the HBO series The Idol.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Wrap was first to report on Carrey\u2019s involvement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim Carrey is zooming toward a live-action feature version of The Jetsons. The actor is in talks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[12874,236,127296,88,119831,5251],"class_list":["post-227619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-animation","tag-celebrities","tag-colin-trevorrow","tag-entertainment","tag-jim-carrey","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}