Tom and Jerry Get CGI

The show is about a cat and mouse that continually try to thwart each other. The cat just wants to eat the mouse and the mouse just wants to eat the cheese. Yet for over 60 years this simple scenario has entertained audiences.

"Tom and Jerry" have been around for ages and aren't disappearing yet. According to Variety, the two of them shall be in created with CGI in a live-action film.

"Plans are to bring the constantly warring cat and mouse to life as CG characters that run around in live-action settings.

Studio-based Dan Lin, currently producing the upcoming 'Sherlock Holmes' and exec producer on 'Terminator: Salvation,' will adapt the classic Hanna-Barbera property as an origin story that reveals how Tom and Jerry first meet and form their rivalry before getting lost in Chicago and reluctantly working together during an arduous journey home."

Taking famous cartoons and turning them into CGI characters has worked out very well before with such franchises as "Scooby-Doo" and "Alvin and the Chipmunks."

"The studio [Warner Brothers] successfully turned 'Scooby-Doo' into a live-action franchise with two films that earned a combined $457 million theatrically and a direct-to-DVD feature in the works.

Interest in the new projects certainly ramped up after 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' earned a whopping $360 million worldwide, besting even Fox's predictions for the pic, which was budgeted at $60 million. A sequel was quickly greenlit, with the singing rodents skedded to hit the screen again in 2010."

Since the characters of "Tom and Jerry" are familiar to kids (I believe more familiar than "Alvin and the Chipmunks"), it shouldn't be too hard to market the film. It will sure to be a family favorite with probably a sequel or two coming in the next few years.

I wonder if they can work this out well since I have already seen the cartoon "Tom and Jerry" movie, and seeing the two of them talk (which they don't do in the cartoon) and sing (which they definitely don't do in the cartoon) was kind of weird. I'm pretty sure on the packaging for that film the tagline was "See the most famous cat and mouse in their first movie and hear them talk!"
Yeah...a lot of work is going to be have to be put in this.

"Tom and Jerry" freak out that they can talk.


Until then, watch some classic "Tom and Jerry" here!