With Warner Brothers adapting 60s classic animated adventure series Johnny Quest and the title character will be played by teen heartthrob Zac Efron.
After months of rumors, it’s finally been confirmed that “High School Musical” star Zac Efron has signed on to play the title role in Warner Bros.’ planned live-action version of the popular ’60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon show Jonny Quest.
Obviously casting the 21 year old in the role of Quest means that they will be ramping up his age a little. Efron still has no trouble playing a teenager with his boyish good looks and will likely offer a draw to a movie franchise that its target demographic will have no clue about.
However there is a rumour flying around that Warner wants to change the title of the movie to attempt to disassociate it with the 60’s animated series. Apparently they are worried that people will discard any hope in a Jonny Quest adaptation after seeing their Speed Racer film.
Honestly I don’t think that changing the title is going to trick people into thinking this is NOT an adaptation of Jonny Quest. They could call it Adventure Kid, and it would still come out that this is a Jonny Quest movie.
