Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam have to seek out one other option to attempt to catch that wascally wabbit, Bugs Bunny, in HBO Max‘s reboot of Looney Tunes. Elmer’s rifle, his longtime weapon of selection, isn’t part of the brand new model of the traditional cartoon collection, and Yosemite Sam’s hip is holster-free within the new take, too.
Whereas this is not the primary time Bugs and the gang have been rebooted, this one is making a small stride towards modernization, the present’s government producer and showrunner Peter Browngardt told the New York Times. The change comes as a response to gun violence, however the present will not utterly forgo the exaggerated violence Looney Tunes is known for.
“We’re not doing weapons,” Browngardt stated. “However we will do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was sort of grandfathered in.” He went on so as to add, “We’re going by way of this wave of anti-bullying, everyone must be buddies, everyone must get alongside. Looney Tunes is just about the antithesis of that. It is two characters in battle, generally getting fairly violent.”
Elmer Fudd nonetheless wields a weapon within the new present — instead of his gun, the reboot has given him a large scythe, as seen above in Dynamite Dance, an animated quick that premiered final 12 months as a tease for the reboot and options Elmer and Bugs wrapped up in one in all their common chases and options many, many sticks of dynamite. In the meantime, anvils and sophisticated booby traps are additionally a continued a part of the brand new collection, and within the premiere episode of the brand new Looney Tunes, Sam bears his literal arms (for an arm-wrestling contest) as a substitute of brandishing his common pair of pistols.
Looney Tunes Cartoons is out there to stream on HBO Max.
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