February 26, 2021
Tom & Jerry (released internationally in some markets as Tom & Jerry: The Movie) is an upcoming American live-action/computer-animated slapstick comedy film produced by Warner Animation Group and based on the characters of the same name created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The film is directed by Tim Story and written by Kevin Costello. It stars the famous cat and mouse duo of the film, Tom and Jerry, both of whom will be voiced by Hanna, the pair's long-time voice actor, as well as three other voice actors of theirs; Mel Blanc and June Foray via archival recordings, and Frank Welker reprising his role as a vocal effects artist from the 1990s TV series Tom and Jerry Kids Show and the 2002 film Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring. It will also star Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña, Rob Delaney, Colin Jost, and Ken Jeong.
Originally intended as a live-action/computer-animated film in 2009, the film languished in development hell, with plans going to an all-animated film promising to capture the same veins as the classic cartoons from the 1940s and 1950s in 2015. In 2018, the film was confirmed to keep these veins while officially being a live-action/animated film, which would begin filming in 2019.
Tom & Jerry is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on February 26, 2021, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film will also get a month-long simultaneous release on HBO Max, in time for the 81st anniversary of the original Tom and Jerry cartoon in 1940. Upon release, it will be the first theatrically released form of media to feature the Tom and Jerry characters in 16 years, after The Karate Guard in 2005. The film marks the third time where the animated characters Tom and Jerry make an appearance with real life humans, after 1945's Anchors Aweigh and 1953's Dangerous When Wet, but is the first film where they are the focus rather than making a cameo appearance in a brief sequence. This movie is set in Manhattan as an homage to the 1945 Tom and Jerry cartoon, Mouse in Manhattan.
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