Former Marvel Studios head Avi Arad has acquired the screen rights to E.C. Segar’s Popeye and plans to develop a Popeye theatrical feature film. Segar’s creation has a long history in animation starting with the Fleischer cartoon shorts in the 1930s and continuing with the Famous/Paramount Popeyes in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as TV cartoons in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Warners, which is releasing the Popeye cartoons on DVD, and Fantagraphics, which is publishing collections of the original Segar Popeye comic strip, will certainly benefit if
With a career that also encompasses radio, comic books, big little books, and even an unfortunate live-action film in 1980 with Robin Williams as the spinach-chomping gob, Popeye is a true culture icon. Variety is reporting that