There have been a few attempts to reboot The Flintstones in the last few years, most notably with Seth MacFarlane planning a new animated TV series version. However that never got past the pilot script stage.
Now though it’s been announced that Warner Bros. is teaming up with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions to bring The Flintstones back to the big screen with a new animated feature, according to THR.
Chris Henchy, another partner partners at Gary Sanchez who also wrote The Campaign, will come up with the script. Ferrell and McKay will be executive producers (it isn’t known if Ferrell will also voice a character in the film).
The originally Flintstones debuted in 1960 and ran for six seasons on the air. At the time it was the longest-running animated primetime series (The Simpsons has massively surpassed that now though). In 1994 it was taking live-action with a movie starring John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis and Rosie O’Donnell and the 2000 sequel The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas.
It isn’t known when the new movie will be released. It isn’t clear either if it’ll be a hand-drawn film or fully CGI.