Dwayne Johnson will be flexing his acting muscles in the live action adaptation of the classic cartoon Jonny Quest. Not signed, but rumoured to play Jonny Quest himself would be Zach Efron, but that might just be some media buzz casting as he just isn’t right for the role. He is too old to play the 11 year old son of Dr Benton Quest. Doesn’t mean it won’t happen, but it would change the feel of the movie just to get a hot teen draw name.
Dwayne Johnson is definitely Bannon, and Efron is in line to play Jonny, although he’s not a lock due to Efron’s advanced, 17-year-old age. While I can see the allure, that’s a big change to add into the mix.
The Cartoon Network already gave us an updated version of Jonny Quest with the blatant tribute to the archetypes found in the Venture Brothers.
Cinematical proposes that they should just make a live action adaptation of the Venture Brothers instead since their pick for Race Bannon is already more like Brock.
But nostalgia is the flavour of Hollywood now, so adapting classics near forgotten are ripe to introduce an old thing to a new generation. They have been making remakes since the dawn of Hollywood, so while others are ripe with rants of “nothing new in Hollywood”, remakes don’t bother me at all.
