Speedy Gonzales Movie Back in Development at Warner Bros. With New Director

Speedy Gonzales is reportedly racing to the large surface with a caller movie from manager Jorge R. Gutiérrez.

The Hollywood Reporter says the Looney Tunes icon is revving up for a standalone, animated movie for Warner Bros. successful the future. Casting, crippled details, and a merchandise day person not been announced.

Speedy Gonzales is simply a sanction that has graced the cartoon satellite for much than 70 years. The tiny Looney Tune has agelong been called The Fastest Mouse successful All of Mexico, often utilizing his accelerated feet, speedy wit, and tiny stature to entertain kids and adults alike successful some shows and movies. Recent years person seen him mostly sidelined successful cameo roles successful projects similar Space Jam: A New Legacy and Bugs Bunny Builders.

Gutiérrez volition pb the complaint connected the Speedy Gonzales movie, which is presently without a writer. He’s champion known for his enactment arsenic a writer for Nickelodeon’s short-lived El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera cartoon, with his directing credits including the El Guapo vs The Narco Vampires, Maya and the Three, The Book of Life, and more. Audiences whitethorn besides admit the filmmaker for his acquisition arsenic a dependable histrion for a fig of animated works, specified arsenic The Bad Guys 2, Victor and Valentino, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

“Jorge is simply a singular storyteller whose voice, artistry and taste position marque each task helium touches consciousness some timeless and wholly new,” Warner Bros. Pictures Animation president Bill Damaschke said successful a statement. “We couldn’t beryllium much excited to person him reimagining Speedy Gonzales, 1 of our astir beloved Looney Tunes characters, for today’s planetary audience.”

The Speedy Gonzales movie is getting its small feet moving astatine Warner Bros., but this isn’t the archetypal clip the iconic rodent quality has tried to contention his mode into getting his ain movie. It was reported successful 2016 that different animated movie, past called Speedy, was successful the works, with Eugenio Derbez attached to star. The task ne'er came to fruition, with Derbez telling United Press successful 2024 that “the studios are acrophobic that, nowadays, it’s truthful politically incorrect.” It’s unclear if elements from that iteration of the task volition beryllium carried implicit to the caller one.

Last month, Gutiérrez teased his engagement successful the task with an Instagram post. In the message, which sees him sporting a Speedy Gonzales artifact and t-shirt, helium says, “Guess what movie I mightiness beryllium processing astatine Warner Brothers Pictures Animation…”

Looney Tunes fans person recovered a fewer reasons to look guardant to the household of cartoon animals’ aboriginal successful film. In summation to Warner Bros. renewed involvement successful Speedy, fans rejoiced to larn that the long-shelved Coyote vs. Acme had recovered a caller location successful Ketchup Entertainment. Its theatrical merchandise day is presently scheduled for August 28, 2026, with Speedy Gonzales expected to get astatine an unspecified day aft that. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. arsenic a full is acceptable to acquisition a monolithic shakeup, arsenic Netflix works against Paramount to unafraid a deal.

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