"Looney Tunes Cartoons" in world premiere in Annecy. – Variety

Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the lot are heading to the French-Swiss border where they will open the Annecy-2019 International Airport. Animation film festival, in which the festival has announced as the world premiere of new episodes of the revived franchise entitled "Looney Tunes Cartoons".

They will project upstream of the previously announced opening film "Playmobil: The Movie".

The Works in Progress presentation by Warner Animation Group and Warner Bros. Animation in Annecy, last year, was among the best receipts of recent memory. For a few minutes, the audience consisting of industry professionals, animation students and the press was transported in the morning of Saturday morning, eating dry cereal in pajamas. The laughter was noisy and persistent throughout the brief projection.

The projected clip was a parody on the tomb-caper type "Indiana Jones", and shown in animation. "The Curse of the Monkey Bird" featured Daffy Duck and Porky Pig who were venturing into a jungle temple in search of his allegedly cursed treasure. The audience of Annecy has eaten an inspired sequence where, thanks to the ineptitude of Daffy, Porky has quickly succeeded. , plunging to the underground level – where Daffy, unharmed, joins him.

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"I wanted to go back to the '40s Looney Tunes' in the late '30s and early' 40s," said executive producer Peter Browngardt, exhibiting, among other things, characters from different artists for Bugs Bunny and Daffy. Duck. "Super irreverent, super bananas, high energy. They pushed surrealism, the high physicality of animation, the expressions in the animation. "

The new drawings will last between 1 and 6 minutes and the WBA will produce 1,000 minutes. The content will be multi-platform, including digital, mobile and traditional broadcasting. The series features veterans of the "Looney Tunes" voice, including Jeff Bergman and Bob Bergen, and newcomer Eric Bauza taking the reins of Bugs.

In addition to opening the festival, the short films "Looney Tunes Cartoons" will also participate in the popular outdoor screenings of Annecy on Monday, June 10, offering the general public a chance to take a first look at this classic revisited.

Wednesday, June 12, Browngardt will once again present itself in Annecy, this time to "present the most ambitious content initiative to date", "Looney Tunes" ", according to a press release. – President of the series at Warner Bros. Animation, the supervising producer Alex Kirwan of Looney Tunes Cartoons and Sam Register, President of Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Digital Series, will join him this year and the quartet will present other short films. features as well as a behind-the-scenes look at production.