Hey Arnold! Movie Is In The Works
The cartoon character with the weirdest-shaped head of them all is getting the movie treatment.
Nickelodeon is working on a feature-length jaunt of ‘Hey Arnold!’, that will pick up where the final series of the show ended.
The show ran from 1996 up to 2004, following nine-year-old school kid Arnold, who lived at his grandparents’ boarding house in the fictional city of Hillwood, and his exploits with chums Gerald and Helga.
According to Variety, the movie, which will be made for TV, will resolve various issues around the show’s plot, among them what happened to Arnold’s parents.
“Kids who grew up on these characters are now of the age that they are having kids and families themselves,” said Nickelodeon president of content development Russell Hicks.
“Our library has come to fruition and it’s time for it to start coming back to life.”
There’s plenty of back story and characters to go on – the series ran through five seasons and 99 episodes, and featured Homer Simpson voice actor Dan Castellaneta as Arnold’s granddad Phil, and fellow Simpsons alumnus Tress MacNellie (aka Agnes Skinner, Cookie Kwan) as his grandma Gertrude.
There was also a movie, ‘Hey Arnold! The Movie’, released back in 2002.
Whether the one of the original voices of Arnold will return, Lane Toran (formerly known as Toran Caudell and who also voiced the bully Wolfgang), is not known.
However, it is perhaps rather less than likely considering he’s now a 33-year-old musician and looks like this, with 87,000 followers on Instagram obsessing over his vast beard and matinee idol looks.
Plus he only voiced Arnold for the first two seasons.
It’s thought that Nickelodeon could also potentially bring back other properties including 'Ren & Stimpy’, following recent long-form successes with the likes of 'Spongebob Squarepants’.
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