A mr bean animated film is in the works. Mr bean actor himself confirms it. Also he hates playing the role as bean is loved around the world he is scared he will make a bad film and mess up beans history! But a animated film is ok!
https://variety.com/2021/tv/global/mr-b ... 234878676/
Mr Bean the Animated Film!
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Can’t be any worse than the second live-action!
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Love Mr. Bean. Just watched his Crimbo special again during the holiday. His show pops up on Pluto TV and will always watch if I can.
Hopefully this new animated is easier on the eyes!
Hopefully this new animated is easier on the eyes!
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But what makes Bean work as a character are Atkinson's brilliant facial expressions and comedic timing. Not sure if that will translate to an animated feature.
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Re: Mr Bean the Animated Film!
True, though the cartoon TV show managed nicely:
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Would be nice if they kept to the original cartoon look of the animated series.
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I assume the movie either IS a knockoff of the Brit cartoon (which we'd never heard of in the US until it started assaulting every streaming service), or the realization that live-action Rowan is just too gray to try and revive Johnny English a third time.
It's the same reason Rowan had already given up live-action Bean and given us the cartoon in the first place.
The second movie was the funny one where they went back to TV-show formula, went the whole Jacques Tati, and had Mr.Hulot Bean on beach holiday.
And every time we see a vanity actor project, who doesn't feel the urge to invoke Carson Clay's "Playback Time"?
(And accdg. to IMDB, Willem Dafoe was originally going to be Mel Gibson, which would have been too sweet.
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It's the same reason Rowan had already given up live-action Bean and given us the cartoon in the first place.
Whoa, wait, think you're confused: The FIRST movie was that unholy nightmare with Peter MacNicol and the talking Bean.
The second movie was the funny one where they went back to TV-show formula, went the whole Jacques Tati, and had Mr.
And every time we see a vanity actor project, who doesn't feel the urge to invoke Carson Clay's "Playback Time"?
(And accdg. to IMDB, Willem Dafoe was originally going to be Mel Gibson, which would have been too sweet.
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Johnny English Strikes Again was released in 2018.
Yes, that happened. And I do know my Beans: neither film lived up to the comic sketch format of the series episodes, but at least the first wasn’t blatantly ripping off Tati!
Yes, that happened. And I do know my Beans: neither film lived up to the comic sketch format of the series episodes, but at least the first wasn’t blatantly ripping off Tati!
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That's true. Made me appreciate the original a little bit more.
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B-but...the original TV Bean was SUPPOSED to rip off Jacques Tati! That was the idea...British physical-comics are always homaging Jacques Tati!
Heck, even Monty Python (or at least, Terry Jones) did its own ritual cribbing of M. Hulot's Holiday:
Heck, even Monty Python (or at least, Terry Jones) did its own ritual cribbing of M. Hulot's Holiday: