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[Flashcomix]

is it true that in 1998 or 1999 there had been an animated tv show with Jake and Elwood including the voices of Jim Belushi and Peter Aykroyd?? I once saw an interview with Steve Cropper and he talked about it.

[Fulmernator]

From what I've heard, it was drawn up and even storyboarded, but at the last second UPN pulled the plug. Why, I have no idea, but I remember seeing character sketches on some other BB site.

[HumanBiped]

I remember reading somewhere that it did air a season. A friend of mine told me he had seen a few episodes because he made fun of it. He said the musical numbers were very sad...
I would like to see even one of them though.

[shane_blues]

i rember a german company were planing a BB cartoon about 5 to 6 years ago but i never did get to see it

[bbcentral]

Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) was supposed to be involved with the project!

Projects Mark is currently working include working with various Saturday Night Live alumni Jim Belushi, Shellie Berman, Lorraine Newman, Don Novello and a large cast of others, including the likes of Peter Aykroyd, Nell Carter and Taj Mahal, for the UPN's The Animated Blues Brothers, where he taking on several roles. Mark also provided the voice of Threshold for the Gen 13, based on the ultra-popular Image comic book.

Unfortunately, during Fall 1997, two months after the appointment of David Pritchard as new president and CEO, UPN canceled its order for 13 episodes of "The Blues Brothers," a series for which Film Roman had optioned the rights, part of a plan to produce proprietary programming.

I don't think the series was ever made, apart from a few test animations (maybe).

[bbcentral]

Then again, check this out:
http://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.8/2.8pages/2.8snydermipcom.html

The last paragraph mentions the Blues Brothers being screened at an animation convention!

[Bluto_Ray]

Wow I didn't think anything like that existed. I sometimes joke about how wouldn't it have been cool to have had a Blues Brothers cartoon since they had a Ghostbusters cartoon. But I didn't think that they came this close to it.

Anyone know anything about what kind of plot or episode ideas they had? Did it just have Jake and Elwood or where there different Blues Brothers? Any info would be great.

[Fulmernator]

What I'm more interested in is who holds the rights now to the concept. If FIlm Roman would be willing to sell to somebody committed to getting it aired, we could conceivably see a revival. Granted, that would probably be a bit far-fetched to hope for, but since it would be a mission from God...

[BluesWorldOrder]

I'd love to see this cartoon! Does anybody know if any pictures exist? I'd at least like to know what they were going to look like. Hmm, Jim Belushi and Peter Aykroyd....shouldn't they have called it "Blues Brothers' Brothers"?

[Fulmernator]

I saw one site out there about a year ago that had few publicity shots; Jake and Elwood look a bit stylized but are still undeniably their personas. One of the still, likely the teaser, has their silhouettes in front of the BLuesmobile's headlights. THe third and final one had them driving against a Chicago skyline.

[BluesWorldOrder]

Do you have the address to that site? I'd like to see it.

[Fulmernator]

I'll look and see what I can do for you in the next couple of days.

[bbcentral]

This is about Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter:
"I have had quite a few opportunities to use this guitar in a studio situation," Baxter said. "I've used it on the TV show King of the Hill and the new Blues Brothers animated TV series that I'm working on. I used it on a movie soundtrack for Michael Camen. I used it on that GTE commercial where we did the Beatles song 'Help.' It works quite well."

This is about Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker):
Hamill will be voicing Detective Armbrister on the prime-time, twice-delayed "Blues Brothers" animated series for UPN, based on the John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd characters from Saturday Night Live and a 1980 film. Hamill described his character as the "Neanderthal sidekick" to the series' main villain, Alderman Alderman.

The website with the pictures has been taken down.
Try this:
Old Website

[BluesWorldOrder]

Thanks for the link. Looks like it could have been pretty cool. Wouldn't it be great if they included one of the episodes as an extra on the 25th anniversary DVD?

[Fungus]

I remember there was a Blues Brothers 2000 game for the N64 where you played Elwood and had to collect musical notes. I never owned or played it. On my Super Smash Bros. Mellee for my GameCube, there is an introduction to the charaters, and one of them was called Nes. It showed Nes (some boy) run down a road. As he runs he passes (strangely enough) cartoon, 3-D versions of Jake and Elwood walk down the street and look at him! Can anyone explain this?

[sir_rocksalot]

this may be a dumb question, but is there any way to see clips of the Blues Brothers animated pilot?

[beacky278]

thats a good question, i want to see it too!

[looneyanil]

I would like to see that too but maybe theres some video somewhere in the net... Ya gotta search days and months...I'll try...but if ya find ya tell us o,ke?

[Dorko_Blues]

1. Has anyone here seen it? And if so, how was it?

2.Do we have any reason to hope that it will one day hit DVD?

[bbcentral]

1) Not that I know of
2) Ask Dan Aykroyd

But seriously, I wish I could help you, I've been looking for a long time for the series. All I know is that the episodes were shown at an animation convention, but that was the last time they were ever seen.

You could ask Dan Aykroyd, or perhaps try Film Roman directly?

http://www.filmroman.com

I wouldn't expect a reply, but if they send you a video let me know