{"id":228455,"date":"2025-10-16T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/228455\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:06:07","slug":"jim-carrey-might-play-tormented-future-man-george-jetson-for-colin-trevorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/228455\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Carrey might play tormented future-man George Jetson for Colin Trevorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Jetson sure seems like a miserable sonovabitch, doesn\u2019t he? The man works two hours a week, owns his own flying car and high-rise space pod, and once got to meet<\/a> several\u00a0time-traveling members of the WWE. (Also, he\u2019ll apparently live to be 150, while never actually having to go through the indignity of being born.<\/a>) But all the man ever seems to do is complain, simply because his entire universe\u2014rude bosses, indifferent wife, feckless children\u2014was apparently designed to treat him with a complete and total lack of respect. Hell, we\u00a0live with that, and without the loving comfort of a robot maid\u00a0or\u00a0a high-tech space treadmill that, honestly, seems like a class-action lawsuit waiting to happen.<\/p>\n

Jetson\u2019s highly comfortable existential hell is reportedly set to get some new cinematic focus soon, too, as Deadline\u00a0reports<\/a> that Warner Bros. is eyeing a film adaptation of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, directed by\u00a0Jurassic World\u00a0guy Colin Trevorrow, and potentially starring Jim Carrey as the man himself. Which, if we\u2019re being honest, we don\u2019t hate: Carrey can do chipper and sad sack in basically the same breath, and his recent run in the Sonic The Hedgehog\u00a0movies has been a reminder that his basic wellspring of cartoon energy is still running high, even as he pushes well past 60. If nothing else, we can feel confident that at least some of George Jetson\u2019s basic disgust at his amazing life will bleed through into the performance, which is all we can really ask for here.<\/p>\n

No other casting on the project has been announced\u2014and even Carrey is still just in the \u201cin talks\u201d phase\u2014but it\u2019s worth noting that this would also be a pretty big swing for Trevorrow, who\u2019s stayed pretty safely ensconced in his Jurassic\u00a0bubble since the collapse of his plans to direct\u00a0Star Wars: Episode IX\u00a0several years back. (Since then, the\u00a0Safety Not Guaranteed\u00a0director has pretty much stuck exclusively to dinos, directing Jurassic World: Dominion, and producing the franchise\u2019s recent Netflix animated shows.) It\u2019ll be interesting to see him get back in the director\u2019s chair to tackle the futuristic world of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon you typically think of after\u00a0you\u2019re done thinking about\u00a0Scooby-Doo\u00a0and\u00a0The Flintstones;\u00a0The Jetsons\u00a0had an animated film adaptation back in 1990, but hasn\u2019t had nearly as much interest in revival or re-examination as those other two properties over the years.<\/p>\n

Parents rejoice: Jim Carrey is coming back to make Sonic The Hedgehog 3 bearable<\/a>Taran Killam says Jim Carrey was his favorite SNL host<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Jetson sure seems like a miserable sonovabitch, doesn\u2019t he? The man works two hours a week, owns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-228455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228455","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=228455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}