Bad News on Bone Movie

It’s not anime, but the prospect of a movie based on Jeff Smith’s Bone seemed to provide hope for a witty piece of domestic animation. It looks like the deal fell through. Cinescape.com and CartoonResearch.com are reporting that Nickelodeon and Paramount have dropped Jeff Smith’s highly anticipated animated Bone movie. According to Boneville.com’s message board the other side of the story is “‘The BONE movie option *did* run out and was not renewed. However, it wasn’t because Nickelodeon and Paramount dropped the option. Jeff did. Nickelodeon still wants the movie option, but Jeff felt things weren’t going well in terms of how quickly it was coming along (which it wasn’t) and the changes that were being made to his and writing partner Dan Root’s script. When the option ran out. Nickelodeon made another offer, but Jeff felt they’d all end up doing the same thing again (Sloooow development and studio changes to the script) and declined.'”