"Hotel Transylvania" helmer’s “Popeye” unveils 1st footage (video)

 September 19, 2014 - 16:10 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Sony Pictures Animation has released a first-look footage of "Popeye". Main artist Gennady Tartakovsky insisted "it's not a clip, it's not a trailer, it's nothing from the actual movie, the voices are all temp", AceShowbiz said.

The video opens with Olive looking bored aboard a ship before big men start to come down from the sky. A series of slapsticks that are trademarks of the character begin and end with Olive being thrown out of the ship.

"From a young child, I was really destined to make one movie, and that movie was Popeye," Tartakovsky said. "Even so much, that when I first started animation, my very first teacher was a 90-year-old Popeye animator from the Fleischer studios, Gordon Sheehan. So I feel like it's destiny that's brought me here to Sony Pictures Animation to make Popeye an animated feature."

Tartakovsky previously directed Sony's "Hotel Transylvania" which earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Animated Film.

"Popeye" actually has not been greenlit yet. "I'm kind of hoping that the reaction from animation fans will be so loud & so strong that Sony will be eager to put Popeye into production," Tartakovsky told Huffington Post.