‘The Flintstones’ Adult Animated Series Reboot In Works At Warner Bros. With Elizabeth Banks Producing

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Warner Bros. Animation continues to mine its vault of classic titles for reboots. The company has teamed with Elizabeth Banks’ Brownstone Productions to develop a new Flintstones primetime animated adult comedy series.

The project, which is based on an original idea, will be featuring characters from the classic Hanna-Barbera family series The Flintstones, which aired from 1960-1966 and spawned a live-action movie franchise. The new adult animated comedy, which is in very early stages of development, will be produced by Warner Bros. Animation.

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There is no network yet but WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming platform HBO Max is a logical destination. HBO Max also is home of Warner Bros. Animation’s upcoming Gremlins prequel series. WBA’s other upcoming reboot, Animaniacs, is at Hulu.

A Flintstones spinoff kids series from WBA, Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs!, had been ordered by Boomerang SVOD. The project halted production earlier this year after completing one season of its two-season order.

The new Flintstones falls under the Brownstone’s overall deal at Warner Bros. TV, which was recently re-upped.

The highest-profile effort for a new incarnation of The Flintstones came eight years ago when Fox gave a straight-to-series order to a new Flintstones series from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane.

For MacFarlane, it was a childhood dream-come-true — by his own admission, the very first cartoon character he drew at age 2 was Fred Flintstone. MacFarlane was to co-write The Flintstones reboot with Dan Palladino and executive produce it with him and Kara Vallow. It took two years of complex deal-making between 20th TV, where MacFarlane is based, and Warner Bros. TV, which has the rights to the classic Hanna-Barbera series, to make the project a reality but it was ultimately scrapped because of MacFarlane’s overcrowded schedule.

The new Flintsones project was first reported by Variety.

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