Brett Ratner To Adapt ‘Hong Kong Phooey’ To The Big Screen

The film adaptation of Hong Kong Phooey is moving forward at Alcon Entertainment with the help of Brett Ratner in a producing capacity. There’s no studio attached yet, but Variety announced that Alex Zamm has been called in to direct the combo live-action/animated update that was written by David Goodman.

Goodman’s a Family Guy producer, so that kind of softens the blow, but I think this one still falls in the “Better Left Untouched” category, and I say this as someone who’s fairly liberal in his thinking about remakes.

The cartoon was popular in the 1970s with some carryover into the mid-80s, meaning the youngest fans with a sense of the property’s legacy are maybe 30, but more than likely a little older. That’s not the crowd studios want to attract week in and week out.

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