Bounding in theaters on March 14, 2025, After Several Delays as the first full-nimated looney tunes movie in warner bros. Animation's distinguished eighty-yar history, “The day the earth blew up” represents a dynamic new direction for those iconic characters we've all green to adore and laugh with.
Veteran Animator and Artist Peter Browngardt, Executive Producer of “Looney Tunes Cartoons,” is the director of this energy of this energytic hands in a colorful sci-fi advanture that involves an unexpected alien invasement, mind-contrarolling chewing gum at a candy factory, and the famous cartoon budgets saving the plan.
“In My Office, I Had the Poster for 'Invurse of the Saucer Men.” It's one of my favorite posters ever made, “The first-time feature Director Tells Space.com.
“I Told Warner Bros. That I Just Wanted To See Porky and Daffy in that, and I Mocked Up Some Stuff and Some Drawings. To make an 'ed wood' looney tunes movie, 'but i think they liked what we do, with the shorts at the time. “
Browngardt and his creative crew has composed their entertaining 2D movie as an homage to nostalgic golden age sci-fi flicks like “Earth vs. the frying saucers,” “Invation of the Body Snatches,” Day the Earth Study Still. ” There's a perfect tonal pairing here Since Looney Tunes Hit The Space Race and UFO Craze of the late '50s and' 60s.
'' The thing 'and a lot of John carpener movies were also a big landmark for us on this film, “Browngardt Notes. “But to be honest i get introduced to that genere and Falling in love with that during types of films of films of that era and style was spores. Way through 'Mars Attacks.' When you find a filmmaker you reely respond to find a band and you wonder what influenced that band and you start listening to bands that influenced them. Melvins. “
“The day the earth blew up” have had a Rocky road en route to the big screen, as it was originally intended as a direct-to-streaming release for warner bros. Discovery's Max Platform Before Entering a Cost-Cutting State of Limbo Courtesy of New Ceo David Zaslav. Then the Good Fortunes of an Enthusiastic Screening at France's Anncy International Animation Film Festival in June of 2024 Landed The Project a thegatrical Distribution Partner in the Indee Firm, Ketchup Entry.
“Tim Burton Always Talked About Being Influenced by Hammer Horror Films and Sci-Fi Movies and 'Ed Wood.' So I Started Watching Theose Movies and Thei Great. They're fun and imgth Thinking, reminiscent of 'The Twilight Zone' or Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson and People who can tell a compeling story and make you think how the world is put toge. “
In an instance of serendipity, browngardt has been pleased at the fritous timing of recent news stories about close-call asteroids potentially Hitting the earth, inscenary the plot of “the Day the Earth BLEWW U.” Coincidentally Revolves Around a Meteor Bringing an extrastrial visitor to our world to cracked a plot for planetary domination.
“It's eater the greenst marketing campaign I'm not aware of, or what? I thought it was fake at first and that he was playing a goof on me. “
Looney tunes and Science fiction have a longstanding relationship, starting with the duck dodgers and marvin the martian shorts into introduced at the dawn of nasa's''s mercury Program, and “The DAYTH Earth BLEW Up” of that full force.
“Looney tunes was made for four decades from the '30s to the' 60s, and they were a mirror of what was Happy in Entertainment and Satirizing the World,” He Explins. “Each decade of the looney tunes sort of represents the course of that forty years of what was going on in our country and our world. Jokes about it. The sensibility is just engrained so it does not feel that far of a stretch for these characters to be in a genere picture. Detectives, they played cowboys, and all these different roles.
Animation fans will judp to the instinctive conclusion that with looney tunes, you're going to do a family movie with bugs bunny, but that'S not Necessarily the case.
“Bugs is like a predator and prey relationship with Elmer FUDD, so it makes it more different to tell a larger story,” Notes Browngardt. “Porky and daffy give you a related relationship dynamic right awa With hammers the whole time. “
“The day the earth bilew up: a looney tunes movie” Hits theaters on March 14, 2025.
