Looney Tunes aren’t locked away in a vault forever. Despite parent company Warner Bros. Discovery being unsure how to go forward with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, et al., The Day the Earth Blew Up will reach theaters on February 28. Just not from Warner Bros. Confused? Don’t be. We’ve entered into a world of entertainment shell gaming. Just like streaming services have found value in licensing their content to other streaming services, Warner Bros. Discovery may have figured out that they can still make movies and let other companies distribute them.
Enter Ketchup Entertainment. They’re still small, but they’re the company that also released The Crooked Man, the most recent Hellboy movie. Thus they’re building a reputation of saving IP from disappearing. (Though they clearly couldn’t meet the price for Coyote vs. ACME.)
Created by the same team responsible for Max’s Looney Tunes Cartoons, The Day the Earth Blew Up looks full of slapstick, jokes of both high and low humor, and good for families. In short, it’s the Looney Tunes legacy. The versatile Eric Bauza carries on the tradition of Mel Blanc by acting opposite himself as both Daffy and Porky Pig.
That said, I don’t know how good it actually is. I liked the few episodes of Looney Tunes Cartoons I watched, which emulated the work of Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, and other great directors while being its own thing. The Day the Earth Blew Up won’t blow up your world, but it will probably provide solid chuckles and the comfort of old friends.
From Ketchup Entertainment:
This richly-crafted, hand-drawn 2D animated adventure marks the first fully-animated feature-length film in Looney Tunes history, told on a scope and scale that’s truly out of this world.
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck venture to the big screen as unlikely heroes and Earth’s only hope when their antics at the local bubble gum factory uncover a secret alien mind control plot. Faced with cosmic odds, the two are determined to save their town (and the world!)… that is if they don’t drive each other totally looney in the process.
Featuring the voices of acclaimed actors Eric Bauza, Candi Milo, Peter MacNicol, Wayne Knight, and Laraine Newman with the laugh-out-loud gags, vibrant visuals, and beloved characters that make the Looney Tunes so timeless and iconic. Ketchup Entertainment will release THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE wide in theaters on February 28, 2025.
Director: PETER BROWNGARDT
Line Producer: MICHAEL BAUM
Supervising Producer: ALEX KIRWAN
Executive Producers: PETER BROWNGARDT, SAM REGISTER
Written By: DARRICK BACHMAN, PETER BROWNGARDT, KEVIN COSTELLO, ANDREW DICKMAN, DAVID GEMMILL, ALEX KIRWAN, RYAN KRAMER, JASON REICHER, MICHAEL RUOCCO, JOHNNY RYAN, EDDIE TRIGUEROS
Music By: JOSHUA MOSHIER
Edited By: NICK SIMOTAS
Art Director: NICK CROSS
Production Designer: AARON SPURGEON
Production Company: WARNER BROS. ANIMATION
Run Time: 91 MINUTES
MPA Rating: TBA (let’s be honest — we’re not expecting a hard R here)
In addition to running Fanboy Planet, Derek has contributed stories to Arcana Comics (The Greatest American Hero) and Monsterverse Comics (Bela Lugosi's Tales from the Grave). He has performed with ComedySportz, City Lights Theater Company and Silicon Valley Shakespeare, though relocated to Hollywood to... work in an office? If you ever played Eric's Ultimate Solitaire on the Macintosh, it was Derek's voice as The Weasel that urged you to play longer. You can buy his book "I Was Flesh Gordon" on the Amazon link at the right. Email him at [email protected].
