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[Major Spoilers] Segar creation.  Arad’s version won’t feature humans with deformed bodies, but rather will be a CGI animated film featuring the sailor, his girl Olive, Bluto (or Brutus), and the rest of the Popeye cast.  Hopefully it will be better than the image above.

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[GeekTyrant] Marvel to make CGI POPEYE movie! | GeekTyrant: Marvel head Avi Arad recently acquired the rights to Popeye, in hopes of rebooting the franchise by bringing it back to the big screen. First appearing in.

[BFDealmemo] Categories: While the plethora of superheroes at other studios and Universal’s Islands of Adventure theme park has raised skepticism over Marvel’s acquisition price, Arad doesn’t see the $4 billion price tag as untoward. He said the number validated the vision that he and Ike Perlmutter had when they implored creditors to spurn a $350 million cash offer from Carl Icahn, when Marvel was in bankruptcy in the late 1990s.

[We Are Movie Geeks] Popeye movie is coming”¦in CGI.- We Are Movie Geeks: Apparently when Marvel acquires projects they intend to do something with them, and thats the case for Popeye. Marvel Head Avi Arad has recently mentioned that they intend to bring Popeye back to the big screen, and I will go out on a .

[Get The Big Picture] Animated 'Popeye' Being Developed - Get The Big Picture -: Curiously, the character is in the public domain in a lot of countries, but not so in the US, so Arad still had to acquire the rights first before moving ahead. Details on the new version are scant, but it already sounds like a better option than the movie that scarred my nine-year-old psyche.

[NunoXEI] Comic Movie News Crunch: Week of September 19, 2009: First off, I had NO idea Marvel had acquired the rights to the character Popeye, so I figured I’d start with that. Second Avi Arad, Marvel’s head honcho stated that he wishes to reboot the character on screen.

[Entertainment Infomation Blog] 'Ghost Rider' sequel in the works: While the plethora of superheroes at other studios and Universal’s Islands of Adventure theme park has raised skepticism over Marvel’s acquisition price, Arad doesn’t see the $4 billion price tag as untoward. He said the number validated the vision that he and Ike Perlmutter had when they implored creditors to spurn a $350 million cash offer from Carl Icahn, when Marvel was in bankruptcy in the late 1990s.

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