New 'The Day The Earth Blew Up' Posters, Stills Herald Domestic Marketing Push For 'Looney Tunes' Movie
A Looney Tunes movie is finally coming out in February, and efforts to help keep it in mind have begun
2025 is gumming up, ready to pop off with the long-awaited release of The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, the first fully-animated feature-length film in Looney Tunes history. We are in the final three months of its 3 and a half yearslong journey from being produced for Cartoon Network and Max before being dropped, pivoting to a theatrical release and finding Ketchup Entertainment as its North American distributor. It was Tuesday that new posters and stills from the film were released, giving some overdue variety to mix in with the original that had Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Petunia Pig scrambling to run away from the Invader.
The first poster sees Porky facing the viewer blowing a gum bubble with the tagline “About to blow up around the world”. Daffy’s has him covered in gum and the tagline “Bursting onto the big screen”. Despite their gummy circumstances, they’ll gladly high five, in a third poster with the tagline “To save the world, they’ll have to stick together.” The stills range from being held by a Paul Bunyan-esque giant man as babies, to having their bully await them in their school days, to a normal day in their messy kitchen, to a mind-controlled zombie-esque person ascending the stairs, to Porky and Petunia on the scooters.
Starring Eric Bauza as both Porky and Daffy, antics at the local bubble gum factory uncover a secret alien mind control plot. Faced with cosmic odds, the two are determined to save their town (and the world!) … that is if they don’t drive each other totally looney in the process. They team with Petunia, voiced by Candi Milo, to save the world in the familiar Looney Tunes manner. The film also stars Peter MacNicol as The Invader with Wayne Knight as Homeless Man, Fred Tatasciore as Farmer Jim and a scientist, and Laraine Newman as the landlady. The Day The Earth Blew Up is directed by Pete Browngardt and produced by Warner Bros Animation, written by Browngardt, Darrick Bachman, Kevin Costello, Andrew Dickman, David Gemmill, supervising producer Alex Kirwan, Ryan Kramer, Jason Reicher, Michael Ruocco, Johnny Ryan and Eddie Trigueros. Sam Register and Browngardt are executive producers. The well-chronicled brethren of dropped projects in its class haven’t seen any progress in the near 2 months since last report that need it, and as Merry Little Batman hits a year since release, things have been quiet on the Bat-Family spinoff front too.
Source: Animation Magazine
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