A movie for Bone and Tom & Jerry?

There’s been many comics that have come out within the past couple of decades that try to make their mark on the comic book world and have failed. One of those successes, and great reads, includes the Jeff Smith written and drawn series called Bone. Along with that, one of the more beloved set of animated shorts that have come out within the past century belong to the violent and comical series of Tom & Jerry. Producer Dan Lin got to sit down with Collider and spilled what will be happening with these two properties within the realms of the big screen.

First Lin goes off about the fate of yet another Tom & Jerry feature, not going straight-to-DVD but instead will be heading straight onto the big screen. Here’s more on what he has to say on that.:

Regarding Tom and Jerry, Lin says it’s going to be live action/animation hybrid and he compared it what was done on Alvin and the Chipmunks and Scooby-Doo.  He also said it would be a “different tone, obviously” with “CGI creations of the cat and the mouse.”

After that unsettling bit of news, here’s the good news that emerges from him on what Bone will be turning into in it’s adapted form.:

Lin said Justin Monjo is writing the script and they already did a test with Animalogic (who did Happy Feet and Guardians of Ga’Hoole). He went on to say “it really looks like a mix of Shrek as far as the three Bone characters and their comedy, their Looney Tunes or Marx Brothers comedy set in a Lord of the Rings world. We’ve met with several directors and we hope to come to a director decision by January and Jeff Smith has been very intricately involved in the development process with us.”

Well with the way that Bone is going, it looks like it can be one of the better true-to-the-source-material animated adaptations that could come out in the first part of the new decade. As for Tom & Jerry, this one feels like it should go under the pile of films that do not look or sound good enough to watch along with Marmaduke and Yogi Bear.