We're Getting a 'Peabody and Sherman' Movie, and RDJ is Mr. Peabody
Yogi Bear might not have gone down the blockbuster smash hit the studio hoped it would, but that doesn't mean everyone isn't going continue to carry on as if it were. Case in point: the writers of that woefully unwatchable disaster have already banged out another script based on classic cartoon characters--this time, it's Mr. Peabody and Sherman from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show's "Peabody's Improbable History" shorts--and DreamWorks is so eager to develop it in to a film.
The animated shorts centered on hyper-intelligent dog Mr. Peabody and "his boy" Sherman as, each episode, they traveled back in time to meet famous historical figures and make terrible puns. The new film--which, shockingly, will be strictly animation, not the Yogi hybrid nightmare formula--is said to continue in that vein while also tacking on an origin story, because it's really not worth trusting an audience to pick up on the characters without some prior over-explaining. Robert Downey Jr. is reportedly already signed to voice Mr. Peabody, which explains the collective shivers felt during the Golden Globes when shots of Downey were too closely juxtaposed with the clip of De Niro in 2000's The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Shouldn't be too surprising. It's not as if RDJ hasn't already lent his voice to any other dignified, too-self-aware, Mr. Pea characters:
And a Peabody, for good measure:
