List of unproduced Paramount Pictures animated projects
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This is a list of unmade and unreleased animated projects by Paramount Pictures. Some of these projects were, or still are, in development limbo. These also include the co-productions the studio collaborated with in the past (i.e. Fleischer Studios, MTV Animation, Nickelodeon Movies, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, and Paramount Animation) as well as sequels to their franchises.
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1990s
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=1995=
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| Feature film | Elmo Aardvark film adaptation | Shortly after the release of the 1995 Elmo Aardvark album, Will Ryan was approached by Nickelodeon Movies about starring the Elmo character in a feature film. Ryan and writer Phil Lollar developed a film treatment for a mockumentary tracing Elmo's fictional history as a cartoon character, from pre-film origins to the present day some hundred years later. The mockumentary, potentially titled The Elmo Aardvark Story, would feature live-action interviews with figures who would add historical credibility, such as golden-age animator Ward Kimball; these would be interspersed with clips of the Elmo cartoons that had supposedly been produced through the ages, animated in period-appropriate styles.{{citation|last=Gore|first=Chris|title=The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made|location=New York|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|year=1999|pages=74–78|isbn=9780312200824|url=https://archive.org/details/50greatestmovies00gore/page/74}} Designer Leslie Cabarga prepared promotional art, while Fayard Nicholas, Joanie Sommers, and "Weird Al" Yankovic were in talks to contribute to the soundtrack. However, negotiations with Nickelodeon administrators became slow-moving, and after a lengthy "development hell" period, the project fell through. |
=1998=
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| Feature film | Bone | In August 1998, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies acquired the rights to produce an animated film adaptation of the Bone comics.{{cite web |last1=Hindes |first1=Andrew |title=Nick Movies buys film rights to 'Bone' comics |url=https://variety.com/1998/film/news/nick-movies-buys-film-rights-to-bone-comics-1117479690/ |website=Variety |access-date=2 April 2024 |date=20 August 1998}} Jeff Smith, author of the Bone comics, stated in a 2003 interview that Nickelodeon had insisted on the Bone cousins being voiced by child actors and wanted the film's soundtrack to include pop songs by the likes of N'Sync. Smith's response was that nobody would insert pop songs in the middle of The Lord of the Rings or The Empire Strikes Back and therefore pop songs should not be placed in Bone either.{{cite news |date=July 4, 2003 |title=Alexandra DuPont Interviews BONE Creator Jeff Smith!! |url=https://www.aintitcool.com/node/15592 |access-date=July 27, 2017 |work=Ain't It Cool News}} (The relevant part of the interview is also quoted at the Boneville.com official website, here [http://www.boneville.com/bone/bone-history/] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101220190441/http://www.boneville.com/bone/bone-history/|date=December 20, 2010}}.) The film was then developed at Warner Bros. under their Warner Animation Group banner instead. However, in 2019, Netflix purchased the rights to turn Bone into an animated series, which was later cancelled in April 2022 during a reorganization of Netflix Animation.{{cite news |last=Gonzalez |first=Umberto |date=November 17, 2016 |title=Mark Osborne to Adapt Warner Bros' 'Bone' Comic |work=TheWrap |url=https://www.thewrap.com/mark-osborne-direct-bone-adaptation/ |access-date=October 23, 2020}}{{cite news |last=Amidi |first=Amid |author-link=Amid Amidi |date=October 16, 2019 |title=Netflix To Produce 'Bone' Series |work=Cartoon Brew |url=https://www.cartoonbrew.com/streaming/netflix-to-produce-bone-series-181012.html}}{{Cite web |date=2022-04-20 |title=Netflix Animation Erased: Executives Fired, Shows Canceled and Accusations of 'Staged Data' (Exclusive) |url=https://www.thewrap.com/netflix-animation-shakeup-executives-fired-shows-canceled-staged-data/ |access-date=2022-04-20 |language=en-US}} |
| Hey Arnold! | Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie | In 1998, Nickelodeon offered Hey Arnold! creator Craig Bartlett a chance to develop two feature-length films based on the series: one as a TV movie or direct-to-video and another slated for a theatrical release. Nickelodeon asked Bartlett to do "the biggest idea he could think of" for the theatrical film. Albie Hecht, who was president of Nickelodeon at the time, suggested to Bartlett about making the theatrical feature as a spiritual sequel/follow-up to the episode "Parents Day", and have Arnold try to solve the mystery of what happened to his parents. Though after successful test screenings of the made-for-TV movie titled Arnold Saves the Neighborhood, it was decided that it would instead be given a theatrical release in 2002, under the title of Hey Arnold!: The Movie to attract the attention of the public. Around this time, Hecht also asked Bartlett to produce a special one-hour 'prequel' episode titled "The Journal" that would serve as a lead-in to the second movie. The episode debuted on November 11, 2002. But due to the disappointing box office results of the first film, Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie was cancelled and ended up leaving the original series with an unresolved cliffhanger ending. The project was later revived as a two-hour TV film that debuted on November 24, 2017. |
2000s
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| Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius | Jimmy Neutron 2 | In February 2002, a sequel for Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius was reported in development for a summer 2004 release.{{Cite web |date=2002-02-15 |title=From One Screen to Another |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-15-et-calvo15-story.html |access-date=2020-02-02 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} Producer Albie Hecht reported to The Los Angeles Times that the sequel "would be made on the same budget as the first, but with a new batch of inventions and adventures in Jimmy's town of Retroville." On June 20, 2002, The Hollywood Reporter reported that writer Kate Boutilier had signed a writing deal with Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures to write a sequel, but it never materialized.{{cite web |date=June 20, 2002 |title='Jimmy Neutron' Sequel Gets 'Thornberrys' Scribe |url=http://www.killermovies.com/u/untitledjimmyneutronsequel/articles/1909.html |access-date=November 12, 2016 |publisher=Killer Movies}} The film was cancelled because the writers could not agree on a story and Alcorn later stated in an interview that "once the TV series came out, there wasn't a lot of incentive to make a movie when fans could simply watch Jimmy Neutron for free at home."{{cite web |title=Keith Alcorn on JIMMY NEUTRON and PLANET SHEEN |url=https://www.karereviews.net/keith-alcorn-on-jimmy-neutron-and-planet-sheen.html |access-date=February 7, 2020 |work=karereviews.net}} |
| Feature film | Imaginary Friend | In March 2002, it was announced that Nickelodeon Movies would produce Imaginary Friend, a Gary Ross-helmed live-action/animated hybrid about a boy and his imaginary friend who takes him from the real world to an animated fantasy world. Written by Anne Spielberg, the film would’ve reunited Ross and Spielberg after scripting the 1988 Oscar-nominated Big. Would have been produced by Nickelodeon and Ross' Larger Than Life.{{cite web |date=March 15, 2002 |title=Gary Ross Makes Imaginary Friend |url=https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=707734.html |access-date=January 21, 2022}}{{cite web |author=Dana Harris |date=March 14, 2002 |title=Larger Than Life a 'Friend' to Nick |url=https://variety.com/2002/tv/news/larger-than-life-a-friend-to-nick-1117863978/ |access-date=January 21, 2022 |publisher=Variety}} |
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See also
- List of unproduced Disney animated projects
- List of unproduced DreamWorks Animation projects
- List of unproduced 20th Century Studios animated projects
- List of unproduced Warner Bros. Animation projects
- List of unproduced Sony Pictures Animation projects
- List of unproduced Universal Pictures animated projects
References
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{{Paramount theatrical animated features}}
{{Paramount Animation}}
{{Nickelodeon Movies}}