03-18-2014, 09:02 PM
Now for some trivia on Charlie Brown.
During the production of A charlie brown Christmas, nobody at CBS had any hope for the special. CBS was making poor assumptions on how Charles Schultz wanted the special as. CBS didn't think that the special would do well with children voicing the characters(over professional voice actors that are adults), having a jazz soundtrack, and being a special without the infamous 'laugh track' recording that is only heard when funny parts are spoken by the characters. One of the biggest fights Schultz had with the executives at CBS was getting Linus to quote from the bible.
Some of the specials that were made had scenes that would later be taken out from the original broadcast of the Charlie brown specials. These scenes were references/ads to Coca-cola(who helped out funding Charlie brown Christmas among a few other specials). In the opening sequence for A Charlie brown christmas, Snoopy tosses Linus from his blanket into a sign of coca-cola. Linus would later be seen using his blanket to knock down a coca-cola can with a snowball. These scenes from this special as well as others that had references to Coca-cola were later cut out from future broadcasts as well as home releases.
A live-action movie based off of Peanuts was considered, but nothing came out of it. John Hughes(of Breakfast Club fame) had written a script for a live-action film based off Charles Schultz's comic strip. It is not known why the film did not get made. It can be assumed that it didn't get made to hurt the image and reputation of the comic strip. However. Despite not getting off of the ground during development, Charles Schultz did enjoy the script that John Hughes had written for a film based off of Charles Schultz's characters.
During the production of A charlie brown Christmas, nobody at CBS had any hope for the special. CBS was making poor assumptions on how Charles Schultz wanted the special as. CBS didn't think that the special would do well with children voicing the characters(over professional voice actors that are adults), having a jazz soundtrack, and being a special without the infamous 'laugh track' recording that is only heard when funny parts are spoken by the characters. One of the biggest fights Schultz had with the executives at CBS was getting Linus to quote from the bible.
Some of the specials that were made had scenes that would later be taken out from the original broadcast of the Charlie brown specials. These scenes were references/ads to Coca-cola(who helped out funding Charlie brown Christmas among a few other specials). In the opening sequence for A Charlie brown christmas, Snoopy tosses Linus from his blanket into a sign of coca-cola. Linus would later be seen using his blanket to knock down a coca-cola can with a snowball. These scenes from this special as well as others that had references to Coca-cola were later cut out from future broadcasts as well as home releases.
A live-action movie based off of Peanuts was considered, but nothing came out of it. John Hughes(of Breakfast Club fame) had written a script for a live-action film based off Charles Schultz's comic strip. It is not known why the film did not get made. It can be assumed that it didn't get made to hurt the image and reputation of the comic strip. However. Despite not getting off of the ground during development, Charles Schultz did enjoy the script that John Hughes had written for a film based off of Charles Schultz's characters.