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Exclusive: Meerkat Manor Coming to The Big Screen! As a Cartoon?

By Brian Prisco | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (5)

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An unnamed source — I know people, motherfuckers — has said that Warner Brothers and Weed Road Pictures is planning on adapting the British nature documentary “Meerkat Manor” to the big screen under the production helmage of my new archnemesis, Akiva Goldsman.

However, they’re planning on turning it into an animated feature. The logline: “A Pixar version of West Side Story meets The Sopranos.”

So apparently, it’s going to be four hours long, with awesome stuff happening the first hour, nothing of real note for the last three, and the finale is going to piss people off. Oh, and a meerkat’s gonna get poisoned. And then, there’s gonna be lots of meerkats dancing to the sultry tones of Ke$ha.

“Meerkat Manor” is basically footage of meerkats with overdubbing by actors. So this sounds like it’s going to be one giant version of that Farce of the Penguins piece of shit that Bob Saget was involved in. Except, it’s gonna be animated. So it’s gonna be Happy Feet. But with prairie dogs. Dancing fucking gophers.

It’ll make a billion fucking dollars.









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Comments

It’ll make a billion fucking dollars.
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I really need to get into the movie business. I MUST be able to come up with something THAT stupid.

*tries really really really really really really hard*

*sigh* Nope, I got nothin'.

Posted by: , at April 27, 2010 10:48 AM

Animating this seems silly.

Why not just make some tiny motion-capture suits for the little gems? You could even get Robert Zemeckis to "produce" the movie. By which I mean pass out in front of a web-cam, until someone slaps him across the face with an oven mitt full of cocaine.

Posted by: Thurgod at April 27, 2010 12:13 PM

The voiceovers in this are really creepy, especially during the mating bits. It's presented like porn.

Posted by: Steph at April 27, 2010 3:13 PM

Whenever I try to take photos of meerkats at the zoo, they are notoriously uncooperative. They only hold that cute little famous bipedal pose for so long. Animating them makes sense.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at April 27, 2010 4:31 PM

Are you sure it isn't a film about Aleksandr Orlov and his never ending struggles to get people to stop confusing hero meerkats with car insurance markets?
Because I would pay good money to see that film. Not even lying.

Posted by: squeeziee at April 27, 2010 6:58 PM