The Wombles. Now there's a TV show that's due a dark gritty reboot.

[andrewducker]

"In a world...."
"...where one man's rubbish is another man's treasure..."
"Who watches the rubbish collectors?"

In a world where litter is everywhere, one Womble isn't going to take it any more.
Orinoco is going to take out the trash.

*big explosion*

*shotgun sounds*

*Inception noise*

BLAAAAAAAAAAAARP

Starting Christian Bale as Great Uncle Bulgaria, Colm Meaney as Tobermory, And Martin Freeman as Orinoco, With Lucy Liu as Madame Cholet.

(This conversation brought to you by Adam and I entertaining ourselves last week over chat while he was lunching alone, and I was in the jury-service waiting room.)

Comments

[magister]

I would like to hope that a few years later, we have a thriving shared universe series of films along the lines of the Marvel ones.

The Flumps - all played by Andy Serkis in a motion capture suit

Pigeon Street - featuring Scarlett Johansson as Long Distance Clara

Benedict Cumberbatch as Mr Benn, with Idris Elba as the shopkeeper

Russell Crow as Bod.

After a few films, they team up to fight Cate Blanchett as a gender flipped Toni Hart and her shape changing creature of darkness, Morph. Also played by Andy Serkis in a motion capture suit.

[andrewducker]

*applause*

[miss_s_b]

Needs moar Aunt Flo. Badass Aunt Flo played by Sophie Okenedo or someone similarly BAMFy

[magister]

Michelle Yeoh as Aunt Flo, the Rock as P C Copper and Christoph Waltz as Farmer Barleymow.

In wave 2, we get Vin Diesel as Captain Pugwash and Tom Hiddleston as Bagpuss, costarring Jeremy Irons as Professor Yaffle, Robert de Niro as Gabriel the Toad, Meryl Streep as Madeleine and the mice played by Andy Serkis in a motion capture suit.

As an off shoot, for those who want something R-rated, Quentin Tarentino presents Kurt Russell and Uma Thurman as Noah and Nelly. "All aboard the mother f***ing Skylark"

[thedivinegoat]

I just read this to my husband, and made him cry with laughter.

(Would you mind if I linked to this on my FB?)

[andrewducker]

Please do!