Genndy Tartakovsky’s Popeye is dead in the water
In what will surely be a tough blow to the spinach industry, Genndy Tartakovsky is not only no longer directing Sony’s Popeye movie, but the studio has apparently dropped the movie entirely. This news comes from /Film, and it sounds like the issue is that Tartakovsky was simply never able to convince Sony that the movie was worth making in the first place. He released some (surprisingly good) test footage back in September to try and build support for the project, and even though it did help build some positive support, it wasn’t enough for the miserly penny-pinchers at Sony to be convinced that a CG movie based on an old cartoon was worth making (again).