Jonny Quest On The Big Screen?

The classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon “Jonny Quest,” may be coming to the big screen this according to The Hollywood Reporter. It first premiered in 1964, and it only ran for one year. The show was cancelled not because it was bad, but because it was too expensive to produce. In fact, the show was an instant success and was noted for its realistic portrayal of people. For those of you that don’t know anything about this series, let me tell you a little bit about it. Jonny Quest is eleven years old, and has a cute white pug named Bandit, who by-the-way provides comic relief, an adopted brother Hadji, from India, and a genius scientist father who takes the clan on adventures. Add to the mix a “man in black,” Race Bannon (a government man) who is assigned to protect them. They all go off to fight the “bad guys.” The adventure series was inspired by an old time radio show “Jack Armstrong,” a comic strip titled “Terry and the Pirates,” and none other than the James Bond Movie,
“Dr. No,”(1963). Barbera took all three and came up with Jonny Quest.

After the show was cancelled stations ran re-runs for decades which I watched as a kid. In the 80’s some new shows were produced for syndication and later Quest was revived in the 90’s in a spin-off series “The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest.” Will the big screen keep Jonny alive? Will Jonny Quest fans be happy with the movie? We shall see.