Grass Roots (film)

Grass Roots (film)

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name = Grass Roots


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director = Dave Borthwick
producer = Bruce Higham
Andy Leighton
David Lascelles
writer = Gilbert Shelton
Paul B Davies
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"Grass Roots" is an upcoming clay animated film based on the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comics created by Gilbert Shelton. A 3-minute piece of test animation can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YINWUjFQRDU here] .

History

Before "Grass Roots", there had been several attempts to film the stories. There was even an unauthorized pornographic film titled "Up in Flames", which "ripped off the Freak Brothers, Mr. Natural and Cheech and Chong all in one go."cite web |url=http://www.ripoffpress.com/fbmovie.cfm |title=The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Movie! |accessdate=2007-01-26 |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=Rip Off Press, Inc.'s Freak Brothers Factory Store |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

In 1979, Rip Off Press received $250,000 from Universal Pictures for a five-year option on a live action film based on the characters.cite web |url=http://www.toonopedia.com/freakbro.htm |title=The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers |accessdate=2007-01-26 |author=Don Markstein |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=Toonopedia |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] Although a script was written, the movie was never filmed. It was rumored that Universal bought the rights in order to prevent competition against the Cheech and Chong franchise. Over the next 25 years there were several more options taken on film rights, but none of them went to production. Finally, in 2006, production began on an animated film based on the Freak Brothers comics.

References

ee also

*List of stop-motion films
*List of animated feature films

External links

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* [http://www.grassrootsthemovie.com/ Grass Roots Films] - official website
* [http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22186 Ain't It Cool News]


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