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'Jetsons' Producer Confirms Kanye West's Potential Role In Film


By Eric Ditzian
Posted 1/5/12 4:11 pm ET by MTV News in Music News



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During Kanye West's 3-hour Twitter spree on Wednesday night, he covered plenty of ground (even mentioning that he'd like to design the set for this year's MTV VMAs) but one of his most surprising tidibts was a claim to be in talks for a directorial role in the Jetsons movie. "I was just discussing becoming the creative director for the Jetson movie," he wrote. Could it be true? The live-action adaptation of the futuristic Hanna-Barbera cartoon — starring George Jetson, his boy Elroy, daughter Judy, Jane his wife, plus their robot maid Rosie — has been in development for years, with Robert Rodriguez attached to direct at one point. MTV News put in a call to producer Denise Di Novi, who confirmed that talks with 'Ye had indeed taken place. Ruh!

"Kanye's always been a Jetsons fan, I think because he's so into design and he loves the design aspects," she told us exclusively. "So we had a fun brainstorming conversation."

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The call took place after West touched base with producers and told them he was interested in working on the project. "We heard that he knew we were working on the Jetsons," Di Novi said. "He reached out and said he's a huge Jetsons fan. There are a lot of Jetsons fanatics out there, especially people that are into either futuristic science or design. He was interested in creatively brainstorming what we were doing with the movie and what ideas he might have. It was a really friendly, preliminary conversation."

At this point, though, Di Novi is unsure if Kanye will actually sign on to become creative director of "The Jetsons." "He was going to think about it more and see if he got inspired visually," she said. "He's a very visual artist."

Kanye did mention in his Twitter spree that he was annoyed about one suggestion that arose during the conversation. "Someone on the call yelled out.. you should do a Jetsons tour!" he wrote. "This just happened a few hours ago. I was very insulted of course because for anyone that's seen the Watch the Throne Tour...Or Coachella or Glow in the Dark or Runaway.. you know I have real ideas."

Di Novi, however, said the tour comment was nothing more than a good-natured joke, especially because her production company is involved solely in the movie business. "We were just kind of joking about that," said Di Nova, whose credits include "Crazy, Stupid, Love" and many Tim Burton films. "I don't know if he would want to do that, but it was just a fun comment."