Yeah, it's happening.
Two years after the project was first announced by Fox suits, the network has green-lit a pilot for a sequel to The Flintstones. Yes, I said sequel, because the new show is set 20 years after the original series ended.
Actress-filmmaker-game show host Elizabeth Banks (Press Your Luck), hot off the success of her film, "Cocaine Bear", serves as executive producer for Bedrock, which brings Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm back to being adults, as they were when Hanna-Barbera did all those primetime specials for ABC in the 80's, culminating in the couple getting married and starting a family. Banks will also voice the adult Pebbles, while Manny Jacinto (ex-The Good Place), a relative newcomer to toons, will play Bamm-Bamm.
Stephen Root (ex-NewsRadio, King of The Hill) and Amy Sedaris (ex-Strangers With Candy) will voice Fred & Wilma, respectively.
The concept? Fred is on the verge of retirement, and Pebbles is making her way into the workforce herself.
Lindsay Kerns, who has worked on DC Super Hero Girls for Cartoon Network, is set as head writer. Nicole Byer (Grand Crew) and Joe Lo Trulio (ex-Brooklyn Nine-Nine) have been cast as Betty & Barney Rubble.
Fox will at least screen the pilot. I'd think it'll go to series, sandwiched in between two series inspired by the original Flintstones, that, of course, being The Simpsons & Family Guy. Fox is co-producing with WB.
Stay tooned.
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