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Jonny Quest (Fred Dekker) (Live Action Screenplay, 1995)

This was the screenplay that originally had Richard Donner tied to direct at the helm in the mid-90s. But it never got made as I will include a excerpt that Lance Falk talks about Donner's JQ: What's with Richard Donner's scrapped live-action movie? Here's what I'd heard... Please remember that animation is kept very separate from the Live Action works, so anything I "know" may be inaccurate rumors. The Live Action JQ rights have been with Richard Donner for a while now because he wanted to make the film himself. Keep in mind that Donner's early career was in TV...including a lot of work for HB (Danger Island, Banana Splits, etc.) he probably did the live action parts in Huck Finn too. Sometime ago, I got my hands on a live action JQ script written by Fred Dekker (Monster Squad, Enterprise, etc.). I thought it was pretty good. It had most of the iconic elements wrapped around a how Race and Hadji joined the team. Jade, Zin, Turu, The Robot Spy, etc. were there. Basically a pastiche of classic episodes. It was set in 1964 which I thought was a GREAT idea. A few years ago, Richard Donner was signing the first DVD release of Superman (predating the new megaset) and I made a point of w

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