MAURICE LAMARCHE TALKS TO NERDIST…COULD PINKY & THE BRAIN RETURN??

When I was a kid I friggin’ loved Pinky & The Brain, so as I’m reading this interview Nerdist.com did with Maurice LaMarche(The Brain) promoting the new season of Futurama, I found this little tidbit VERY interesting:

N: Is there hope for a Pinky and the Brain reboot?

MLM: I think the rights are too tied up or complex. I think Spielberg has half, Warner Brothers has half. I think it’s just one of those things where they’ve thought about it, and every time they do a CGI thing of a mouse to see if they can make it real, they’ll make something else, likeMouse Hunt. “Well, we can’t do Pinky and the Brain. We just did Mouse Hunt.” I don’t know that it’s anything that could happen. It’s a prime time to do it, because the little kids who watched Pinky and the Brain now have money in-hand and go to the movies. They are the ticket-buying adult public now. Bringing back Pinky and the Brain seems like a natural, but I don’t think with the legal ramifications that they’ll do it. Although, if Steven says, “I’ll direct it. I want to be involved. It’s going to be a Steven Spielberg picture,” then maybe we might have something. But I don’t know that Steven’s got that on the back burner at all.

Seeing as how Steven Spielberg most recently ruined the Indiana Jones franchise with the latest outing featuring terrible actor Shia LeBouf, maybe its best that we just leave Pinky & The Brain as it is. Although, I do miss the hell out of those characters so I wouldn’t mind seeing more cartoons made of them.