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Betty Boop the Movie
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In 2014 it was announced that Betty Boop would be featured in a film by Syco Entertainment and Animal Logic. Syco Entertainment and Animal Logic recently announced a partnership to create music-based animated and hybrid animation-live action films with their first project. Originally the film was set a 2016 release by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Cindy Robinson the official voice of Betty Boop sent Cowell a special voice message as Betty on behalf of King Features and the Fleischer Studios. As Betty, Robinson praised and thanked him.
Syco and Animal Logic wanted to sell the film to another studio. However nobody wanted to pick it up. Sony and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer both rejected the film, by saying that Betty Boop is "weird" and "out of touch" with audiences.
The project was later canned, never to see the light of day. An old promo was featured, showing people what Betty might have looked like in her animated reboot. All links and references to the film were later deleted, as it was canceled.
The film was never made, and never will be. Please do not make "petitions" relating to the film. This is not the same canned film as The Betty Boop Movie by The Zanuck Company. That film was also going to be a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer exclusive. They are two completely different scrapped movie concepts.
Quotes
- Simon Cowell: "Betty is an icon, and one of the biggest stars in the world - I'm thrilled to be working with her. Betty, I've worked with some serious divas but I think you could be the biggest of them all!"
- Betty Boop: "@SimonCowell said I am the biggest of them all and I take that as a compliment! Xoxo #SimonLovesBetty."
Characters
Cast & Crew
- Simon Cowell (Producer/Syco Entertainment)
- Lady Gaga as Betty Boop (Canceled)
- Zareh Nalbandian (Animal Logic's/CEO)
Lady Gaga as Betty Boop
A Wikileak leaked information that Lady Gaga was once tied to do the voice for Betty Boop, Gaga was also in discussions to contribute music to the film.
However the film was going to another studio and Lady Gaga would not be involved.
George was doing research on the Fleischer Studios brand's power.
In an email sent by Sony Pictures Entertainment and Columbia Pictures vice president of production Lauren Abrahams on October 10th, 2014, Abrahams wrote to then Sony Pictures co-chairwoman Amy Pascal and Motion Pictures Group President Doug Belgrad that, "I wanted to make sure Syco/Animal Logic's Betty Boop project is on your radar."
"Lady Gaga is attached to voice Betty Boop & do some of the music." Abrahams then mentions that, "Neither of us thinks we should do it, and we've also run the brand by marketing who aren’t inclined either," and questions the appeal of the film because "it feels weirdly sexualized yet childlike (esp with Gaga) and not sure really who it's for in a big mainstream way."
Belgrad replies that, "It sounds kind of weird to me to be honest. I don't mind if we don't chase it."
Abrahams then says she agrees, and mentions that "M-G-M is going to buy it.
"Betty Boop was potentially going to be made by Fleischer Studios, who own the rights to Betty Boop, and produced by Simon Cowell's Syco Entertainment and Animal Logic Entertainment.
They weren't planning to sell it before they had a package. Harvey called Simon Cowell about it directly. Glickman called Milano and Jason but there was no pitch.
They wanted to do the film like Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Film Cancelation
It was suggested that the Syco Entertainment & Animal Logic film feature had been canceled. But another CGI film feature listed. Peter Rabbit was most recently revealed by Animal Logic, suggesting that the Betty Boop film was still in production, but was later canned. Betty was also originally set to have made her debut in a new animated TV series set for 2018, which also didn't happen.
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Trivia
- Cowell is a fan of Betty Boop, because like Betty, his ancestry is Jewish.
- The email stated that the in-the-works project would be "An animated live action hybrid" along the lines of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
- Abrahams mentioned that MGM wanted to buy the film, MGM has a past with Betty as the character appeared in the MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park in 1993 and was supposed to have been featured in a film by MGM (Betty Boop MGM Zanuck) but the film was abandoned in 1993. However, MGM decided not to buy the rights to the Animal Logic film. They stated in emails that Betty Boop is "outdated" and "weird," and decided that they wanted nothing to do with it.
- Sony claimed they didn't know who to market the film towards, and they also wondered what audience the film would appeal to, in the end they decided not to pursue it.