Hanna-Barbera's 1960s Jonny Quest cartoon was (and still is) one of the best animated series ever made. It was more violent than the Hardy Boys, and the plots never got formulaic—one of the best episodes involves an old WWI flying ace who wants to die while reliving his heyday in a dogfight with Jonny's bodyguard, Race Bannon. There was also a strange paternal relationship in the show between Jonny and Race made even stranger by the fact that Jonny looks almost identical to Race but looks nothing like his alleged father, Dr. Benton Quest.The last few decades have been pretty hard on the Jonny Quest legacy, with a really heinous Cartoon Network reboot and rumors of a live-action film starring the Rock as Race and Zac Efron as the titular boy wonder. Thankfully, things are looking up—the Hollywood Reporter announced today that Robert Rodriguez has signed on to direct the upcoming film and rewrite the script. Rodriguez is best known for bloody, R-rated movies like Sin City and his El Mariachi trilogy, but he was also the driving force behind Spy Kids, so he could be the perfect guy to make a family-friendly Jonny Quest adaptation that still maintains some of the grit of the original series.1. Sitting Down with the Director of 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
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