Starting life as a 1987 comic and making it way into Lucasfilm history via the 1993 video game, Sam & Max managed a single, 24-episode season as an animated series produced with the much-missed Nelvana on Fox Kids back in 1997 (The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police), and thirty years later Sam & Max fan Elijah Wood is now leading the calls for an animated reboot, to take full advantage of the art style of Steve Purcell, the former ILM animator who worked at LucasArts on a number of classic games including Sam & Max, and later at Pixar where he co-wrote and co-directed the 2012 film Brave.
When it came to ideas for other franchises that could translate themselves to crossover success, Wood said that the Steve Purcell franchise has “a really great art style” that could “lend itself to an animated series.” The duo consisting of Sam, an anthropomorphic Irish Wolfhound, and Max, an anthropomorphic “hyperkinetic, three-foot rabbity thing,” made their comic debut in Sam & Max: Freelance Police in 1987, published under Fishwrap Productions. The first game of the franchise was Sam & Max Hit the Road in 1993, with Bill Farmer voicing Sam and Nick Jameson as Max, becoming a cult success.
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