Casper the ghost live action "horror" series!

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Casper the ghost live action "horror" series!

Post by gaastra » April 11th, 2022, 9:00 pm

Well, when i think casper the friendly ghost "stranger things horror" is not the first thing that comes to mind but looks like we are getting that! Deadline reports peacock is working with universal and dreamworks to make a roger rabbit like live action and animated series about a family that has to solve the mysteries of a creepy town! They have help from casper and his uncles! More strange is it's getting worked on by the writer of Hannibal! Not sure if this is "kids" horror like goosebumps or "adult" horror like that sabrina show but strange choice for casper.

https://deadline.com/2022/04/casper-liv ... 234999778/

Remember when casper, wendy and hot stuff were superheroes fighting monsters?

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Post by droosan » April 11th, 2022, 10:16 pm

I don't personally enjoy the 'dark occult' takes of The Chilling Tales of Sabrina or AfterLife with Archie .. but I don't begrudge their existence. I do admit that both feature very 'nicely-drawn' art, for what they are.

As I've often espoused on this forum, there's more than one valid way to tell any story .. and I applaud any different approach to a 'timeless' tale, even if it doesn't necessarily 'speak' directly to me.

A new 'take' doesn't invalidate or replace the previous versions of the story, after all -- and -- every once in awhile, I'll find that I enjoy both the new and old versions of the story .. in different ways, or for different reasons! :mrgreen:

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Re: Casper the ghost live action "horror" series!

Post by EricJ » April 12th, 2022, 7:35 pm

Still, there's a very thin line between "Hipster-comic rebooting of an ancient property that needed a periodic jumpstarting, and the parent company didn't particularly care how", and that openly contemptuous DC/Hanna-Barbera atrocity.

A generation that remembers public-domain cartoons shown ad nauseam on local stations has no particular love for the Friendly One, and while this smacks more of Buffy and Sabrina than of the Tennessee-Williams Snagglepuss, it doesn't exactly project sincerity.
(Seriously, who even REMEMBERS the lil' devil Hot Stuff, apart from that abandoned DreamWorks attempt to exploit Classic Media holdings?)

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Post by Randall » April 12th, 2022, 7:54 pm

(Not to ramble too far off topic, but those DC/Hanna-Barbera books were largely GOLD, IMHO. :) Flintstones, Future Quest, and Jetsons were all great, and stayed true to the concepts. And, while Snagglepuss certainly was pretty "out there" for the property, it was also very well written and affecting. I was, admittedly, less fond of Wacky Raceland, Dastardly and Muttley, and Ruff and Reddy. I still have yet to read Scooby Apocalypse, but it looks fun.)

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Re: Casper the ghost live action "horror" series!

Post by Daniel » April 13th, 2022, 2:40 pm

(I completely agree!)

They should've made a Richie Rich show then the finale could've seen him murdered and poof season 2 is Casper! ;)

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Post by droosan » April 13th, 2022, 2:48 pm

Daniel wrote:
April 13th, 2022, 2:40 pm
They should've made a Richie Rich show then the finale could've seen him murdered and poof season 2 is Casper! ;)
Reggie VanDough is also killed, and returns in season 2 as 'Hot Stuff'. :twisted:

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Re: Casper the ghost live action "horror" series!

Post by Daniel » April 13th, 2022, 2:52 pm

Don't forget Gloria Glad as Wendy! :lol:

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Post by gaastra » April 13th, 2022, 9:42 pm

They should've made a Richie Rich show then the finale could've seen him murdered and poof season 2 is Casper!
Kind of hard to be the same person when they are friends with each other! Never understood how that joke even got started. They had more then one team up monthly comic!

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By the way richie rich got a update as well-

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Re: Casper the ghost live action "horror" series!

Post by Daniel » April 13th, 2022, 10:51 pm

Hey I did wink! ;)
gaastra wrote:
April 13th, 2022, 9:42 pm
Never understood how that joke even got started.
Simpsons!

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Re: Casper the ghost live action "horror" series!

Post by ShyViolet » April 13th, 2022, 10:56 pm

“Kids, lighten up!”


Also there’s this:

https://youtu.be/D7tpKFqf4po

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You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!

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Re: Casper the ghost live action "horror" series!

Post by EricJ » April 14th, 2022, 1:00 am

"I wonder how Richie died..."
"Probably pondered the futility of his materialistic existence, and took his own life."
ShyViolet wrote:
April 13th, 2022, 10:56 pm
“Kids, lighten up!”

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Re: Casper the ghost live action "horror" series!

Post by Ben » April 14th, 2022, 5:05 am

gaastra wrote:
April 13th, 2022, 9:42 pm
Kind of hard to be the same person when they are friends with each other!

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B…bu…but…they have the exact same facial expression! ;)

gaastra wrote:
April 13th, 2022, 9:42 pm
By the way richie rich got a update as well-

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Hey, what's Krypto doing there? Now Indiana Richie is stealing other heroes' pets!? ;)

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Re: Casper the ghost live action "horror" series!

Post by gaastra » April 14th, 2022, 7:22 am

B…bu…but…they have the exact same facial expression! ;)
Heh.

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Re: Casper the ghost live action "horror" series!

Post by EricJ » April 14th, 2022, 3:00 pm

Ben wrote:
April 14th, 2022, 5:05 am
=Hey, what's Krypto doing there? Now Indiana Richie is stealing other heroes' pets!? ;)
That's Richie's faithful diamond-collar dog Dollar. I had to Google that he was in the original comics, not just the old 80's Saturday-morning cartoons.

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Re: Casper the ghost live action "horror" series!

Post by Ben » April 14th, 2022, 8:08 pm

What…the wink wasn’t enough?

:wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:

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