LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION (2003)



When self-confessed animation aficionado Brendan Fraser got the opportunity to appear in a movie with his childhood heros Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, he didn't have to think twice.

"The technology has come to such a place now that the audience really does believe that live action people are onscreen with animated creatures. It's interesting, because
you have to do what you're really expected to do in the first place but can,which is just imagine that it's there, buy into the situation and as long as the actors believe it, the audience will."
                                                                                     -Brendan Fraser


Brendan plays security guard and aspiring stuntman D.J. Drake who forms an unlikely partnership with Daffy Duck after both are fired from the Warner  Bros. Studio
and then must rescue D.J.'s kidnapped father Damian Drake (Timothy Dalton).





Along for the ride is Jenna Elfman as studio executive
Kate Houghton,
whose job is also on the line if she does not retrieve the errant duck.

Joan Cusack at her quirky best as the mysterious "Mother",

Steve Martin as evil ACME corporation chairman

and Heather Locklear as fellow spy Dusty Tails

and all of the classic Warner Bros. animated stars as well as cameos from a few Hanna-Barbera alumni.








The movie was directed by Joe Dante

from a screenplay by Larry Doyle (and a slew of uncredited gag writers), Story by Larry Doyle, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. Filming took place on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank,California as well as Paris,France and Las Vegas, Nevada.



A few live animals were included too.


Brendan was reunited with Tai, who played "Shep" in "George of the Jungle".
                                                                   
In addition to playing D.J. Drake, Brendan also voiced the Tasmanian Devil and his female
counterpart.
He even poked fun at himself by playing "Brendan Fraser".
Jenna on set with Stunt Coordinator Jack Gill.
Bugs' and Daffy's "stand-ins"

Jenna and Brendan on their way to promote the movie in Spain
Photo credit: Jenna Elfman.

Jenna and Brendan at the European Premieres

and at the Los Angeles premiere

Steve Martin and Bugs Bunny 
Professional Wrestler and Actor
Bill Goldberg
And the voice actor for Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, 
Joe Alaskey (1951- 2016)



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