Jim Carrey Is George Jetson and That Might Be the Whole Pitch

Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed a live-action The Jetsons movie starring Jim Carrey on its Q2 2026 earnings call, and Frank breaks down why the casting is doing all the heavy lifting so far. A Jetsons reboot on its own would be an easy shrug. The Flintstones already ran that play in the 90s. What makes this one different is that Carrey is in the middle of a genuine second wind, coming off the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and heading into a Grinch remake.

Frank makes the case that Warner Bros. has the tools to do something stranger than a straight adaptation. Barbie proved the studio will greenlight a meta take on a legacy property, and The Jetsons is sitting on an obvious hook: the retro-futurist world the show promised in 1962 is not the future anyone actually got. Pull George Jetson into the real 2026 and let him ask where his flying car went while he stares at a Roomba. That is a movie with a reason to exist beyond nostalgia.

The segment closes with a look at the rest of the earnings call, which mostly reaffirmed titles already on the books. Aegon's Conquest from the Game of Thrones universe, the next Matrix installment, and the next Batman film all sit on the same post-2027 slate as The Jetsons.

Solo segment, no guest on this one.

• 0:00 Jim Carrey lands The Jetsons
• 0:24 The Jim Carrey second wind, from Sonic to The Grinch
• 0:40 What a Barbie-style meta approach could unlock
• 0:58 Making a Jetsons movie worth watching
• 1:11 Digging through the rest of the WB earnings call

• Jim Carrey is attached to star in a live-action The Jetsons, presumably as George Jetson, confirmed on the Warner Bros. Discovery Q2 2026 earnings call
• Colin Trevorrow has been attached to direct and co-write with Joe Epstein since reports first surfaced in October 2025
• The film sits on the post-2027 slate next to Aegon's Conquest, the next Matrix, and the next Batman
• Carrey's recent run on the Sonic films and an upcoming Grinch remake make him a bigger draw now than he was five years ago
• A straight nostalgia adaptation is the risk; the Barbie playbook of commenting on the property is the opportunity
• The gap between the Jetsons future and the actual future is the most obvious comedic engine available
• The 1994 Flintstones movie is the closest comparison, and Frank thinks that one is due for its own reboot
• The earnings call was mostly confirmation of known projects rather than new reveals

"Jim Carrey's got his next big movie."

"So we're in a new era of Jim Carrey."

"The future The Jetsons show promise is not necessarily the future we're getting."

"Honestly, Jim Carrey's like the reason to watch this right now."

What would actually make a Jetsons movie worth watching outside of the casting? Should Warner Bros. play it straight, or pull the Barbie move and let the film comment on itself? Who would you cast as Jane, Judy, and Elroy? Send your picks in and they may end up in a future episode.

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