The plotlines in the animated cartoons tended to be simpler than those presented in the comic. Visitors also come to the village to meet world famous cartoon figures. Its a strange little film because popeye is a strange little character in a strange little strip and within those confines, he was beloved. Popeyes is an american multinational chain of fried chicken fast food restaurants founded in 1972 in new orleans, louisiana and headquartered in miami, florida. Popeye is a 1980 american musical comedy film directed by robert altman and distributed by. Pablo escobars hitman popeye who ordered 3,000 murders. California residents can opt out of sales of personal data. And yet popeye nevertheless remains true to its origin on the comic. Did they really think this could compete with star warssupermanetc for whizzbang family entertainment. It is currently a subsidiary of torontobased restaurant brands. According to the sandton times a news outlet that reported on the opening of the first popeyes location in south africa the chain was named after the gene hackmans fictional detective jimmy popeye doyle of the 1970sera movie the french connection. Still, so toxic was the 1980 reception of popeye that altman was left. Popeye doyle is a fictional character who is different from popeye the sailorman. Is popeye the sailor coming soon to the big screens for real.
Aug 12, 2014 popeye is williams actually acting, long before anybody knew he could act, in a movie in which nobody could have blamed him for not even hinting at the characters frailty and humanity. Now, maybe you swabs can pool your intelligensk and sees that im axsking you for an apologeky. Along the way, he vies with the rough bluto for the affections of olive oyl and adopts the young sweet pea. But was there really a demand for a liveaction popeye movie in 197980. Dec 06, 2016 the chief assassin of pablo escobar has been robbed at gunpoint in the colombian city of medellin. Its pitchperfect, entertaining, endearing, and unlike anything else. In 1933, max and dave fleischers fleischer studios adapted segars characters into a series of popeye the sailor theatrical cartoon shorts for paramount pictures. When the treasure is finally revealed, it turns out to be things like an empty picture frame of popeye pappys son as an infink, his baby rattle, baby booties, and other sentimental mementos of childhood. Popeye has also appeared in theatrical and television animated cartoons.
Its story follows popeye s adventures as he arrives in the town of sweethaven. Although the popeye show did appear in 2001, it depends which version you want. The companys currently working on the smurfs, coming to theaters on august 3, 2011. Popeye meets and quickly falls for the slender olive oyl shelley duvall, in the role she was born to play, but olives hand has already been. Jul 05, 20 we know popeye loved the stuff, but the question is. He was delilahs replacement boyfriend after leaving black yoshi. Paramount pictures released the first popeye movie back in 1980, which was a live.
The chief assassin of pablo escobar has been robbed at gunpoint in the colombian city of medellin. Popeye movie loses director genndy tartakovsky variety. Popeye starring robin williams popeye the salior comes to life on the big. If you guys enjoy this and the other videos, come and support my work on patreon, like the animation lookback. Popeye and olive adopt the child, naming him sweepea after the town sweethaven, and the two return to the oyls home.
She is popeye s eternal sweetheart and the two have stuck through thick and thin to face many challenges and adventures together. The answer, it turns out, all goes back to one little mistake. The adventures of the famous sailor man and his friends in the seaside town of sweethaven. It could be the twelfth cartoon network film to be that will released in theaters on december 19, 2014 in reald 3d and imax 3d, on dvd, bluray and bluray 3d on april 7, 2015, and on air to hbo, hbo family, hbo. Instead they held a meeting to try and find an alternative. One of blutos motivations for villainy other than im mean, if you know what i mean is getting his hands on poopdeck pappys treasure. Trivia sweet pea was elsewhere used by popeye as a pet name for olive oyl. Smith, ray walston the pg movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 54 min, and received a score of 64 out of 100 on metacritic.
Built as a film set in 1980, popeye village remains a huge tourist. Popeye is the best movie robin williams ever made vanity fair. With william costello, william pennell, bonnie poe. Popeye the sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by elzie crisler segar.
The character was growing in popularity by the 1930s and there was hardly a newspaper reader of the great depression that did not know his name. Instead of having everything come to a halt for the musical set pieces, altman stitches them into the fabric. If this had come out today, everything would have been cg, and there probably would have been another two movies after it. She is popeyes eternal sweetheart and the two have stuck through thick and thin to face many challenges and adventures together. There are millions of kids along with people from older generations who are loyal fans of this unsung hero who is celebrating his diamond jubilee this year. Apparently producer robert evans wanted to find some comic strip that would be a good character for a movie, and they decided that the popeye comics were their best bet. I was channel surfing and i heard olive oyl singing he needs me and i was hooked. Did sony pictures animation cancel popeye for the emoji movie. Our online popeye trivia quizzes can be adapted to suit your requirements for taking some of the top popeye quizzes.
Popeye is the best movie robin williams ever made vanity. The voice of popeye ended up marrying the voice of olive oyl popeye was first turned into a series of short animated films in 1933, with the character making his bigscreen debut alongside. Popeye the sailor needs an animated movie, he is a classic and hasnt been around for many years if they make a movie he will regain his popularity and. Popeye 1980 wesley ivan hurt in popeye 1980 popeye 1980 ray walston and harry nilsson in popeye 1980. If you are a parent of a small kid crazy about popeye, you probably know who is. May 14, 2018 the name popeye might conjure up images of spinach and the sailor man, but thats not who the chain was named after at all. The name popeye might conjure up images of spinach and the sailor man, but thats not who the chain was named after at all. Popeye the sailor is an american animated series of comedy short films based on the titular comic strip character created by e.
On or about january 22, 2016 the film was in development status. Also, throughout mostly the entire movie, popeye detests spinach. Mar, 2015 as sony did with the upcoming steve jobs biopic, its possible they will pass the movie off to another studio. Is popeye the sailor coming soon to the big screens for. Mar 14, 2015 popeye the sailor needs an animated movie, he is a classic and hasnt been around for many years if they make a movie he will regain his popularity and they better include his pipe and anchor. Because i love it, goddammit, and im tried of pretending i dont. Instead of having everything come to a halt for the musical set pieces. Segar, debuted in his king featuresdistributed comic strip, thimble theatre. The character first appeared in the daily king features comic strip thimble theatre on january 17, 1929, and popeye became the strips title in later years.
Originally popeye hated greens and only settled for meat products. It featured many characters that mostly did not appear in any fleischer films, including olive oyls family, geezil the meat salesman who hates wimpy, and countless others. Popeye is a 1980 american musical comedy film directed by robert altman and distributed by paramount pictures. Sep, 2015 popeye the sailor is coming to the big screens. Popeye meets and quickly falls for the slender olive oyl shelley duvall, in the role she was born to play, but olives hand has already been promised to the. Soundtrack is a soundtrack composed by harry nilsson for the movie popeye. The character has also appeared in theatrical and television animated cartoons. Yall out here fighting about which of these fools has the second best chicken sandwich, read a tweet from wendys account. May 02, 2018 popeye the sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by elzie crisler segar. He becomes smitten with a woman way out of his league, but she coyly withholds. Below is the popeye cg test that tartakovsky directed as a proofofconcept. Although copeland claimed he named the chicken chain after jimmy popeye doyle, the detective from the 1971 movie the french connection, popeye the.
Since 2008, its full brand name is popeyes louisiana kitchen, inc. Im a very tolerant man except when it comes to holding a grudge. Quite a few movies proceeded that, and the tv series started in 1960 and ended in 1961. In the town of sweetville, lovable sailor popeye seeks out his longlost father. A comprehensive database of popeye quizzes online, test your knowledge with popeye quiz questions.
The film is produced by cartoon network movies,and distributed by warner bros. Released 1980, popeye stars robin williams, shelley duvall, paul l. Wesley ivan hurt in popeye 1980 popeye 1980 ray walston and harry nilsson in popeye 1980. Popeye begins his movie career by singing his theme song, demonstrating his strength at a carnival, dancing the hula with betty boop, pummeling bluto, eating his spinach and saving olive oyl from certain doom on the railroad tracks. So last night scavenging through youtube videos, past good mythical morning and cinema sins i came across a movie trailer for a 2016 movie. Segars thimble theatre strip was in its 10th year when.
As sony did with the upcoming steve jobs biopic, its possible they will pass the movie off to another studio. Harvard film archive revisits robert altmans popeye the artery. Graphic content popeye vasquez pictured, who killed 300 people to maintain pablo escobars reign of terror, said he feels no guilt for the people he murdered. In november 19th, 2004, the national council for adoption in new york city hosted an event where popeye officially adopted sweepea in a ceremony officiated by judge greg mathis, legally making them father and son. Sweethaven is a cartoon come to life, but altman doesnt shoot it in the. Robin williams sings popeye s anthem, i yam what i yam with a growling old sea dogs stubbornness. It was written by jules feiffer and stars robin williams as popeye the sailor man and shelley duvall as olive oyl. Jewellery worth a fortune were stolen from the man who has admitting to killing 300 people.
We know popeye loved the stuff, but the question is. Popeye is a sailor man who appears in black yoshis girlfriend problem he was known as a very famous fictional character in the 1930s. The hollywood movie popeye was his first movie that made it to the. Popeye, who was orphaned at an early age, is searching for his missing father. Popeye goes to the commodores ship, where he finds out that the. No news on story details yet but apparently it will feature all the main characters. Paramount had wanted to get the rights to annie, but they lost the bidding war. Dustin hoffman was originally set to play the title role opposite lily tomlin as olive oyl. To put things into perspective, prior to the waterworld attraction, the set from this movie occupied that spot.
If you guys enjoy this and the other videos, come and support. Popeye liveaction film popeye the sailorpedia fandom. Segar and less on the animated cartoons created by max fleischer, which were. An abandoned set from the 1980 film popeye, claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.
Sony has not commented yet on whether they intend to continue making popeye without tartakovskys participation. As it stands, the set holds a lot of the same magic that the pirate town from hook does, its all very lively. Popeye the sailor is a fictional muscular american cartoon character created by elzie crisler segar. Deitch led a long career as an academy award winning illustrator, animator, director, and producer. May 20, 2009 it seems that the first movie came out in 1933 and included betty boop. It was obvious, however, that stars of a larger magnitude were being launched from animated cartoons, with the success of mickey mouse.