{"id":25616,"date":"2012-12-27T20:22:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T01:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=25616"},"modified":"2021-02-05T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:00:57","slug":"a-look-at-some-hong-kong-phooey-and-marvin-the-martian-test-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/27\/a-look-at-some-hong-kong-phooey-and-marvin-the-martian-test-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look At Some HONG KONG PHOOEY And MARVIN THE MARTIAN Test Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HongKongPhooeyTest\"<\/a>It was over a year ago<\/a> that we reported that Eddie Murphy had been signed on to provide the voice of the titular crime-fighting dog for Warner Brothers’s live action\/CGI adaptation of the 1970s cartoon Hong Kong Phooey<\/em>. Since then, I had forgotten all about the project, probably because it sounded like a bad idea. Well, some test footage has shown up online that reinforces that notion.<\/p>\n

Director Alex Zamm has posted some of his test footage online and I can’t say that I am all that impressed. Technically the footage looks fine, but the humor in it just seems so lazy.<\/p>\n

The footage is coupled with some test footage that Zamm developed for a live action\/CGI Marvin The Martian<\/strong> feature. Storytelling-wise it is a bit better, but I’m still not convinced that this would have been a good film either.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that the Marvin The Martian<\/strong> feature has long since been cancelled. Does its coupling with the Hong Kong Phooey test footage indicate that that project is cancelled as well?<\/p>\n