Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, and current owner of Topps, picked up the rights to to adapt the bubblegum comic strip Bazooka Joe into a feature film. Writing the movie will be Mark Hammer, not to be confused with Mike Hammer, who apparently graduated from college this past week.
“Bazooka Joe” has been a comic strip used as an advertising device for the gum since the 1950s. Joe, who wears an eye patch for reasons never explained, has child-friendly misadventures, sometime joined by a host of friends with the names Pesty, Mort (always with a turtleneck sweater pulled up over his mouth), Toughie, Hungry Herman, love interest Jane and a dog named Walkie Talkie.
No word on release date, but expect this to a very different comic book movie.
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this is getting ridiculous. i understand the idea of optioning everything ever written, but they must stop this at some point.
Really!? How long before “Nerf: the movie” or “Coca Cola: this time it’s personal”?
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