Live-action Film
Paramount Pictures first tried to film a live-action version of The Jetsons in 1985, which was to be executive produced by Gary Nardino, but failed to do so. In the late 1980s Universal Studios purchased the film rights for the Flintstones and the Jetstons from Hanna-Barbera Productions. The result was Jetsons: The Movie.
In May 2007, director Robert Rodriguez entered talks with Universal Studios and Warner Bros. to film a live action film adaptation of The Jetsons for a potential 2009 theatrical release, having at the time discussed directing a film adaptation of Land of the Lost with Universal. Rodriguez was uncertain which project he would pursue next, though the latest script draft for The Jetsons by assigned writer Adam Goldberg was further along in development.
The film, to be produced by Denise Di Novi alongside Donald De Line with Hanna-Barbera Productions, Universal and Warner Bros. was set for a 2012 release. The film was placed on hiatus for the last time by Rodriguez due to the production and subsequent release of Rodriguez's other own film Spy Kids: All the Time in the World.
On February 7, 2012, it was announced that Van Robichaux and Evan Susser were to rewrite the script.
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