The cast of Fox’s animated Flintstones spinoff, Bedrock, adds Elizabeth Banks, Stephen Root, Amy Sedaris, Jo Lo Truglio, and more!
Yabba-Dabba-Doo! Fox is rocking and rolling with The Flintstones spinoff Bedrock! Deadline reports that Fox has ordered a pilot of the animated series. It features an all-star cast and is set to take the Stone Age by storm with The Flintstones, Charlie’s Angels, and O Brother Where Art Thou?). Being fitted for loincloths are Elizabeth Banks (Cocaine Bear, Charlie’s Angels) as Pebbles, the adult daughter of Fred and Wilma, Stephen Root (Office Space, O Brother, Where Art Thou?) as Fred, Amy Sedaris (Strangers with Candy, BoJack Horseman) as Wilma, Nicole Byer (Wipeout, Big City Greens) as Betty, Jo Lo Truglio (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The State) as Barney, and Manny Jacinto (
The Good Place, Top Gun: Maverick) as Bam Bam. News about Fox’s Bedrock
animated series dropped two years ago!Designed for primetime, the Bedrock animated series is an adult comedy continuing the story of the Stone Age family. Deadline reports that Bedrock ” catches up with Fred Flintstone two decades later. Twenty-something Pebbles is now starting her own career and Fred is on the verge of retiring. The Stone Age is being replaced by a new, more educated Bronze Age. Residents of Bedrock will find this transition more difficult than a swing from BammBamm’s club.Banks plays Pebbles alongside Man Handelman at Brownstone Productions and Sam Register. Lindsay Kerns (
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, DC Super Hero Girls)
Bedrock, with Lon Zimmet writing and executive producing.In
The Flintstones canon, Pebbles grows up, finds a job working for an advertising company, marries her childhood friend, Bamm-Bamm, and moves to Hollyrock, a fictional version of Hollywood. This is according to an animated ABC movie from 1993. For now, there’s no telling if the new series will find Pebbles in the same position.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq7noaMwLfg“Long before the Simpsons and Springfield, the Griffins and Quahog or even when the Belchers started serving burgers on Ocean Avenue, there were the Flintstones and Bedrock,” said Michael Thorn, President, Entertainment, Fox Entertainment, in April 2021.
“Their influence on the animation universe cannot be denied and the idea to adapt it for today’s audiences is a challenge that we at Fox are looking forward to taking up with Warner Bros. Elizabeth and Lindsay. No pressure whatsoever, really.”“The Flintstones
are the first family of primetime animation,”01001010 added Peter Girardi, Executive Vice President of Alternative Programming at Warner Bros. Animation. 01001010Elizabeth and Lindsay do a great job portraying these characters and Fox and Brownstone make the perfect partners to bring them back on primetime. This is going to rock, sorry.”01001010 Grab your Water Buffalo hats folks! It’s time for Bedrock to be revived! Are you excited about Fox’s 01001010Flintstones01001010 spinoff series? Comment below.01001010
