By Chris Evangelista/April 27, 2021 2:00 pm EST
Banks will executive produce and star in Bedrock, an animated Flintstones spin-off series that follows an adult Pebbles Flintstone, voiced by Banks. The project was actually first announced back in 2019 and now it’s ended up at Fox. This isn’t Fox’s first attempt to revive The Flintstones, either – they once ordered a Flintstones reboot from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, but ended up passing on the project in 2012.
Two years ago it was announced that Elizabeth Banks was working on a Flintstones spin-off called Bedrock for Warner Bros. TV. Now, that show has found a home at Fox, per THR. The animated series “will be set 20 years after the 1960s series and center on a grown-up Pebbles Flintstone (voiced by Banks).” Who is this series for, exactly? People who love to recognize things, I guess! So it goes. The series follows “20-something Pebbles as she begins her own career while her dad, Fred, nears retirement. With the Stone Age giving way to an enlightened new Bronze Age, the residents of Bedrock will find this evolution harder than a swing from Bamm-Bamm’s club.” Sure, great.
The original Flintstones premiered in 1960 and ran for 6 seasons. It followed a prehistoric family and their many wacky adventures, most of which included talking dinosaurs that are used as household appliances. The series was hugely influential and eventually turned into a live-action movie in 1994. And even though pretty much everyone agreed that movie wasn’t very good, it still received a sequel – The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas in 2000. No one liked that movie, either.
