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Warners continues to develop a live-action/CG feature based on their 'French Skunk' cartoon character 'Pepé Le Pew'.

'Le Pew' and his love interest, 'Penelope Pussycat', would be CG characters, with the rest of the film, live action.

Created in 1945 by Chuck Jones, the Pepé Le Pew character starred in over a dozen animated short films for Warners, with Jones' "For Scent-imental Reasons", winning an Oscar for Best Animated Short Subject (Cartoons) in 1949.

The charming skunk, would stroll around Paris in the springtime, looking for 'l'amour' conquests, while his malodorous stank, unknown to him, chased everyone away.

Storylines typically involve Pepé in pursuit of what appears to be a female skunk, that is actually a black cat ('Penelope Pussycat') who has had a white stripe painted down her back, often by accident (as by squeezing under a fence with wet white paint). Usually Penelope runs away from Pepé, not only because of his putrid stench,...

Is he a lover or is he a stalker? One thing's for certain, Pepe Le Pew the skunk sure loves that black kitty with a white stripe of paint down her back.

Voiced by Mel Blanc, Pepe first appeared in 1945, in a theatrical short called "Odor-able Kitty." He went on to appear in 16 other shorts and one of them -- "For Scent-imental Reasons" -- even won an Academy Award. These were later incorporated into numerous syndicated and Saturday morning TV shows like The Bugs Bunny Show and The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour.

All 17 of these cartoons have been released on DVD, 14 of them for the first time. You can purchase The Looney Tunes Pepe Le Pew Collection or you can try to win a copy of here.

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With Will Ferrell warning that Hollywood could soon wear out the superhero genre, it looks as though tinseltown has turned to another animated ensemble for source material.

Vulture is reporting that another Loony Tune is being prepped for the big screen and that this one is to be voiced by one Mike Myers. Myers has reportedly – or so it is being claimed extensively – joked that “by the end of the day, I was Pepé Le Pew”, in reference to his tenure as Fat Bastard. The actor will follow in the footsteps of Mel Blanc and Maurice Lamarche as the voice of Le Pew.

The film, which is being set up at Warner Brothers, will star the smitten skunk using a combination of live action and CGI. With similar projects in development for fellow Loony Tunes Marvin the Martian and Bugs Bunny, we can only hope Warners can perfect their method...

Warner Bros. Pictures is developing a live-action/CG feature based on their 'French Skunk' cartoon character 'Pepé Le Pew'.

To be voiced by Mike Myers, Warner’s Le Pew and his love interest, 'Penelope Pussycat', would be CG characters, with the rest of the film, live action.

Created in 1945 by Chuck Jones, the Pepé Le Pew character starred in over a dozen animated short films for Warners, with Jones' "For Scent-imental Reasons", winning an Oscar for Best Animated Short Subject (Cartoons) in 1949.

The charming skunk, would stroll around Paris in the springtime, looking for 'l'amour' conquests, while his malodorous stank, unknown to him, chased everyone away.

Storylines typically involve Pepé in pursuit of what appears to be a female skunk, that is actually a black cat ('Penelope Pussycat') who has had a white stripe painted down her back, often by accident (as by squeezing under a fence with wet white...

Warner Bros is now working on a live-action/CGI movie about "Pepe Le Pew," and has attached Mike Myers (Shrek) to voice French skunk. Only the title character and his love interest, Penelope Pussycat, will be CGI. The rest will be live-action. The plan is to reinvigorate the Looney Tunes cast of character, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, in hopes of making as much money as Disney does from licensing better-known characters like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Created in 1945, Pepe Le Pew starred in over a dozen animated short films for Warner Bros, and one of them, Chuck Jones's "For Scent-imental Reasons," even won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Subject (Cartoons) in 1949.

Must… resist… stinker/Love Guru jokes bubbling… up… in… brain… Okay, we’re good: Mike Myers, who at times in his career has rivalled Jim Carrey for appearing to be a live-action Warner Bros. cartoon character, has apparently become attached to voice one of the studio’s actual creations, love-hungry skunk Pepe Le Pew. Originally launched in 1945, and most famously voiced by ‘toon tonsil legend Mel Black, Pepe has always been something of a second-tier Looney Tune player, despite healthy popularity and even an Oscar (awarded to Chuck Jones’ For Scent-imental Reasons in 1949) under his belt.But, like many of the Looney bunch, Pepe’s career has dwindled somewhat over the years and Warners is now looking to relaunch several of its beloved creations in the hopes of Delighting Children Around The World*. The studio has already kicked off plans to get Bugs Bunny back in cinemas, and now it...

He’s a skunk, he’s French and he just looooves the ladies. I’m referring of course to that most passionate of Looney Tunes, Mr. Pepé Le Pew – he’s coming to a cinema screen near you and he’s to be voice by none other than The Love Guru himself – Mike Myers!

Warner Bros. is developing a film based on the smelliest Looney Tune according to NYMag’s Vulture. Sadly the film is apparently to take the shape of a live action/CGI mix much like Alvin and the Chipmunks and more recently (and yet to terrorise our childhood memories) Yogi Bear.

With stiff competition from studios such as Disney and their golden egg, Harry Potter coming to a close, Warner Bros. are feeling the pinch more than ever and are under increased pressure to keep the franchise wheels turning in search of higher revenues. Along with a...

Pepe Le Pew, the horniest skunk to have ever been in a cartoon (not too sure how many cartoon skunks there are so this claim may be false) has always been looking for love in the wrong places. For one thing, he's pretty le stupid and never realizes he's been hitting on a cat all these years. I've tried some of Pepe's techniques on girls and my numerous broken noses can verify that these do not work.Warner Brothers has been slowly re-introducing their Looney Tunes characters to a new generation of kids through their new CGI shorts in front of such movies as Cats & Dogs 2 and The Legend of the Guardians. Now it looks as if they plan on taking some characters back into the live-action arena.Here's more from NYmag.com: Mike Myers used to joke that donning the 80 pounds of faux-latex blubber to play Fat Bastard in...

I would have preferred Robin Williams, but Mike Myers is always my second go-to-guy. Apparently, he is going to voice the classic Looney Toons character, Pepe Le Pew, the amorous skunk with a panache from cross species dating. Little was known about the story for this new project, although it was said that the Pepe Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat characters would be CGI, while the rest of the movie will be shot in live-action.

Created in 1945, he’s a skunk perpetually looking for love in pursuit of a cat dubbed Penelope Pussycat, a black cat with a white stripe accidentally painted down her back. He appeared in a variety of short films for Warner Bros., including the Chuck Jones short “For Scent-Imental Reasons,” which won the 1949 Oscar for Best Animated Short. It was said that the studio is looking to relaunch several of their classic animated characters, such as Bugs Bunny,...

Vulture is reporting that Mike Myers will take on the voice of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies character Pepé Le Pew in a live-action/CGI feature at Warner Bros. Pictures. In the cartoons, which first premiered in 1945, Pepé Le Pew is a French skunk who is always in pursuit of a black cat that has a white stripe painted down her back by accident. He, of course, thinks it's a skunk and won't take "no" for an answer, even though she often physically assaults him. In the film, Pepé and the cat would be CGI characters while the rest of the film would be live action. The Chuck Jones-directed Pepé Le Pew short "For Scent-imental Reasons" won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) in 1949. Myers has voiced Shrek in DreamWorks Animation's popular...

Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Pepe Le Pew, Wile E. Coyote and many other characters created or developed by Oscar-winning animator and humorist Chuck Jones (1912 – 2002) will be showcased in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ summer exhibition "Chuck Jones: An Animator’s Life From A to Z-z-z-z." The exhibition opens to the public on Friday, May 14, in the Academy’s Grand Lobby Gallery in Beverly Hills. Admission is free. According to the Academy’s press release, Chuck Jones’ prolific career as animator, producer, director and screenwriter "will be celebrated with more than 150 drawings, storyboards, cels and dialogue sheets from Jones’ animated short films, features and television specials." Among those are Elmer’s Candid Camera, For Scent-Imental Reasons, [...]...