Live Action Snorks Movie Begins Production After Six Year Delay.....

Los Angeles, CA - A live action version of the classic animated television series Snorks, which ran on NBC from September of 1984 to May of 1989, has finally gone into production after a delay of several years.

A controversial scene from the original Snorks cartoon where Allstar Seaworthy pays for a prostitute using clams he got from selling Mrs. Seaworthy's blue coral necklace

"This is a classic cartoon that has achieved a cult status since the initial run," executive producer Franky Mittelshmerz explained. "Eighties nostalgia is at an all time high right now, so this is the perfect time to reintroduce these classic characters and stories to a new generation of adults only...because it's going to be rated R. A hard R."

Though it never achieved quite the degree of mainstream appeal as The Smurfs, another popular 1980s cartoon based on a Belgian comic, Snorks did manage to gain fans worldwide and has continued to be a recognizable intellectual property in popular culture. Over its 65 episodes, the show took viewers to the undersea world of Snorkland, which was inhabited by a race of small and colorful sea creatures with snorkel-like appendages on their heads. The creatures could use their snorkels as a means of propulsion, and it would also make a "snork" sound whenever a snork became emotionally excited.

The cartoon was made with an audience of children in mind, so the original writing team never explored snork society beyond simplistic plots involving topics such as sharing, stranger danger, and the environmental impact of arctic oil drilling. According to Snorks director Paul Thomas Anderson, the live action version will explore the darker side of a Snorkland in decay as their deep sea world faces both economic and environmental catastrophes. "The fans of the original aren't kids anymore. They are in their forties now and I want to speak to them. So yeah, the snorks are going to be fucking...a lot."

One consistent theme in the original Snorks cartoon was the incorporation of technology similar in capability to human culture at the time, but adapted to an aquatic environment. Anderson, who previously wrote and directed such films as Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood, is promising a raw look underneath the surface of Snorkland with a focus on how technology has resulted in a loss of true snork connection. "At this point in the snorks' lives, the only way they feel anything anymore is through drug use, violence, or going to town on each other, just snorking like crazy every chance they get. It took six years to get the CGI right, but it's going to be worth it. You know that the snorkels are their genitals, right?"