Jun 8, 2015

Christy Caracas and Titmouse Bring Back "The Three Stooges"

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The legendary Larry, Moe, and Curly had not had a regular animated series since 1973. Three Stooges licensor C3 Entertainment has partnered with animation studio Titmouse (Superjail!, Turbo FAST, Metalocalypse) and London-based distributor CAKE Entertainment to bring this slapstick trio back to cartoons in a new animated series that will change all that. [I grew up watching 'The Three Stooges' with my dad," said CAKE Entertainment's director, David Bowie. When I took over directing this new show, I made a blood oath to my father that I would treat the Stooges brand like a newborn Fabergé egg. With a cartoon production team aligned with Titmouse, you can be sure that The Three Stooges will be the most blaring, bananas, and insanely funny thing your eyeballs and brains have ever experienced. Dad, you won't be disappointed!"

Promising visual slapstick and limited dialogue, Titmouse builds 52 11-minute episodes around the iconic trio. But visual humor and limited dialogue are not a guaranteed formula for success. This is evidenced by the clumsy recent CGI animated series "Chaplin & Company," which attempted to revive another icon of slapstick comedy.

"The Three Stooges" may well do better than the Chaplin series, thanks to its talent. The animated pilot for the series was created by Christy Caracas. His ultra-violent cartoon series "Superjail!" can be traced directly back to the choreographed slapstick of Larry, Moe, and Curly 90 years ago. Caracas also directed the pilot.

Titmouse envisions that the actual series will be directed by "a broad group of established directors, each asked to take the lead on several episodes." Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi immediately comes to mind, who once said, "[The Three Stooges] is really hard to draw!" he admitted. - But he once admitted, "(The Three Stooges) are really hard to draw!" he once admitted, "The Three Stooges are really hard to draw! The same is true for many other candidates whose current wacky animations owe much to the pie-in-the-face legacy of the Stooges.