'Bedrock' Is Still Alive As Elizabeth Banks's 'Flintstones' Series Moves Forward At Fox

It's still just at a pilot to be presented, but the cast has been announced for it

Fox is moving forward with The Flintstones spinoff series Bedrock, ordering a pilot presentation.

The series has been in development for the network since 2021 and was announced in 2019. Elizabeth Banks has been developing the project with Warner Bros Animation, serving as executive producer, and voicing Pebbles Flintstone, who will apparently be main character. In Bedrock, Pebbles is a 20-something 20-something embarking on her career as her father Fred nears retirement from his. The Stone Age is giving way to the Bronze Age, and the residents of Bedrock will struggle to adjust, finding it harder “than a swing from Bamm-Bamm’s club”.

The rest of the main cast consists of Barry, King of the Hill, and NewsRadio’s Stephen Root as Fred, Amy Sedaris, most recently seen in Ghosted, is voicing Wilma; Nicole Byer, who among other roles can also be heard as Lucy Carmichael on the Rugrats reboot, is voicing Betty Rubble; Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Joe Lo Truglio is voicing Barney Rubble; and The Good Place’s Manny Jacinto is voicing their son Bamm-Bamm. He can also be heard in Disney's upcoming Hailey’s On It! In previous grown Pebbles Flintstones media, she and Bamm-Bamm would become boyfriend and girlfriend, before marrying and becoming parents to twins.

Warner Bros. Animation and Fox Entertainment are producing. Banks and her husband Max Handelman executive produces via their production company Brownstone Productions and its overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group, and Sam Register, who is president of Warner Bros. Animation. Lindsay Kerns will write and co-executive produce, Lon Zimmet writes and executive produces.

Bedrock is part of a big animated push for Fox. With renewing The Simpsons, Family Guy and Bob’s Burgers for two seasons each as a foundation, The Great North is in its third season and Housebroken is in its second. In the pipeline, there’s Krapopolis already set up for three seasons when it’s not even set to premiere until next season after several delays. The next closest to air is the Jon Hamm-voiced Grimsburg, set up for two seasons. While The X-Files: Albuquerque is no longer going forward, the other animated series developing over the last couple of years, including Dirty Girls, HAVOC!, Shell Beach, Universal Basic Guys/The Hoagie Bros., His Majesty’s Dragons, Bloom County, and adaptations of Clue and NIMH.

While The Flintstones as a property has been sparsely used for its own projects in the last 20 years, Bedrock would be the second animated series for the property in the decade, following Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs, which aired 26 episodes in 2 batches on HBO Max in September 2021 and February 2022, before falling victim to the content purge just 6 months later.

Source: Deadline