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The latest fun little story posted Wednesday by Nick Romano on cinemablend.com reports that director James Gunn has shared an image on Facebook that imagines how his characters would look if drawn for classic Hanna-Barbera Productions Saturday morning cartoons.
I loved classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Romano and Gunn got me good with this one.
Writes Romano: “Dubbed Hanna Barbardians of the Galaxy, the spoof remolds our intergalactic team of misfits into the best cartoon that was never made: Gamora as Pebbles from The Flintstones, Star-Lord presumably as Bam Bam, Rocket as Muttley of Wacky Races, Drax as Captain Caveman of Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, and Groot as Grape Ape from The Great Grape Ape Show. So now I guess his catchphrase is “I am Grape Ape”?”
Says me: Yabba dabba do!
“Guardians of the Galaxy 2” has a release date of May 5, 2017, so expect more of this what-if fun to come.
The Guardians of the Galaxy social media publicity machine is still cranking strong, even though the calendar now reads 2015 and it’s been almost forever in movie time since the Marvel Universe released that one. (That would be July 21, 2014, for those of you keeping score at home.)
Of course, this stuff happens when the latest line on the cash register receipts reads $333 million taken in at theaters in the United States, according to the Jan. 4 figures put out by Imagine your favorite ‘Guardians’ as Saturday morning cartoons
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Director James Gunn Hanna-Barbera’d his gang on Facebook