Re: [NEWS] Jim Carrey in talks to play live-action George Jetson

On 2025-10-16 15:36:19 +0000, Paul S Person said:
> On 16 Oct 2025 02:39:29 GMT, [email protected] (Ted Nolan
> <tednolan>) wrote:
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> Your Name  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> A Jetson's live-action movie was likely to be awful (although 
>>> The>>Flinstones live-action movies are probably the 
>>> few>>animated-to-live-action movies that actually get close to being 
>>> any>>good!) ... but, with the abysmal Jim Carrey in the lead role, 
>>> this>>live-action "The Jetsons" movie is 1000% guaranteed to be 
>>> utter>>garbage.  :-\
>> 
>> Jim Carrey is 63.  That's way too old to play a guy with an elemntary
>> school kid.
> 
> Apparently, the concept of "makeup" escapes you.

These days it's more often CGI / "de-aging" software.



> And also, perhaps, that of "acting".

Well, it *is* Jim Carrey ... he *can't* act. All he ever does is pull 
silly rubber-faces and shout a lot.  :-\




> Part of the magic of movies is seeing actors (successfully) playing
> characters you would never expect them to be able to.
> 
> Although I would agree it is easier to do this the other way around:
> young actor, old character -- as in /Scrooge/, for example.
> 
> And, anyway, he could be a 63-year-old with a grade-school grandson.
> You may be ignoring the way stories can change as the film is
> developed.