Warner Brs. Home Entertainment and Syfy are teaming are adapting Hanna-Barbera’s show the “The Banana Splits Adventure Hour“…as a horror movie. Yes, you read that right.
Deadline is reporting that the animal hosts will be back and that the movie is set to premiere later this year from Blue Ribbon Content and Warner Bros. It will make its television premiere on Syfy.
In the new horror thriller, “A boy named Harley and his family (brother Austin, mother Beth, and father Mitch) attend a taping of The Banana Splits TV show, which is supposed to be a fun-filled birthday for young Harley and business as usual for Rebecca, the producer of the series. But things take an unexpected turn — and the body count quickly rises. Can Harley, his mom, and their new pals safely escape?”
Dani Kind (“Wyonna Earp”), Finlay Wojtak-Hissong (The Kindness of Strangers), Romeo Carere (Pyewacket), Steve Lund (Schitt’s Creek), and Sara Canning (“The Vampire Diaries”) star in the film. Danishka Esterhazy (Level 16) is directing from a script penned by Jed Elinoff & Scott Thomas.
“The Banana Splits Adventure Hour” aired 31 episodes between 1968 and 1970, but briefly returned to Boomerang and the Cartoon Network in 2008.
The original hosts of the classic children’s variety show “The Banana Splits Adventure Hour” were the costumed characters Fleegle the beagle, Bingo the gorilla, Drooper the lion, and Snorky the elephant.
