Warner Bros. Pictures is set to bring Hanna-Barbera's action cartoon JONNY QUEST to the silver screen as a live-action production, reports the trades. Dan Mazeau, who sold the spec script LAND OF LOST THINGS to Nickelodeon, has been tapped to pen a screenplay. Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter will produce.
The original animated series aired in primetime on ABC beginning in 1964. The show follows Jonny Quest on globetrotting adventures with his scientist father Dr. Benton C. Quest, adopted Indian brother Hadji, pet bulldog Bandit and "Race" Bannon, a government agent assigned to protect the Quest's during their studies. The franchise spawned several revamped series as well as comicbook titles.
Dan Lin and Matt Reilly are shepherding for Warners.
This isn't the first time a live-action QUEST project has been in the works. In 1994, Richard Donner and Lauren Shuler Donner worked with Tribeca Prods. to adapt the series to the screen, but the project never took off.
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