Flintstones the Movie to be made by Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy

Seth MacFarlane seems to of been after the rights to the Flintstones for some time, and now according to Deadline he has them. The people who owned the rights were very tentative in handing them over to the king of crude, and master of the poor melodrama (see the ‘serious’ family guy episodes).

However, this isn’t all. Not only will he be making a movie of the Flintstones but he’ll also be rejuvenating the old cartoon. Now, if anyone is familiar with Seth MacFarlane’s work you’ll know he likes his dads as main characters- Family Guy, American Dad, the Cleveland Show, so this isn’t exactly new territory for him.

What the challenge will likely be however is to reinvent the traditional and infamous cartoon for the new age. So many cartoons have done similar but haven’t necessarily been the big hits they once were.

Furthermore, MacFarlane’s cleanest and family friendly work so far as been the Cleveland Show which isn’t exactly family friendly. So whether he’ll be trying to reinvigorate it and try just update the old format, or give it a bit more of an adult theme remains to be seen.

But giving that the Flintstones is an already established brand I imagine that the it won’t stray too far from the original in terms of audience. It would be a fools move to take a name as profitable as the Flintstones and sabotage it with a misguided creative mind (looking at you Flintstones circa 1994 & 2000).

Ben Doran