Sony Pictures Animation has released test footage from Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Popeye,” which won’t flex its muscles in theaters until 2016.
The studio is giving impatient fans a spinach-free taste of the CGI sailor, who must save his beloved Olive Oyl from the villainous Bluto.
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Tartakovsky directed “Hotel Transylvania” for Sony Animation and has been fascinated by “Popeye” since he was a boy.
David Ronn and Jay Scherick wrote the script based on E.C. Segar’s popular comic strip, which first debuted in 1929.
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No voice cast has been announced, as Tartakovsky explains that he used temp voices for the test footage, which you can watch in the video below.