Plans are underway for a live-action/CG-animated feature film based on the animated Looney Tunes character Speedy Gonzales says Heat Vision Blog.
The story has Speedy, a young and misunderstood Mexican mouse, finding himself leaving his family to go out in the world and figure out what he's good at. He soon makes friends with a nervous race-car driver.
Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen, who adapted comic "Garfield" for the big screen--as a similar style live-action/CG hybrid family film, will write the script for the coming-of-age story set in the present day.
George Lopez will voice the character and produce the pic.
Gonzalez is of those generational cartoon characters that would fail by today's PC standards —The film will carry the "Latino seal of approval."
The comedian's wife, Ann Lopez, who will serve as a producer on the film, says: "We wanted to make sure that it was not the Speedy of the 1950s - the racist Speedy. Speedy's going to be a misunderstood boy who comes from a family that works in a very meticulous setting, and he's a little too fast for what they do. He makes a mess of that. So he has to go out in the world to find what he's good at."
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