Warner Bros. Discovery Confirms Jim Carrey’s Live-Action Jetsons Movie Is Moving Forward

Warner Bros. Discovery’s Q2 2026 earnings report today folded in more than the usual rundown of subscriber counts and merger updates. Tucked into the studio’s list of upcoming films beyond 2027, right alongside a new Matrix movie, the next Batman entry, and the Game of Thrones spinoff Aegon’s Conquest, was confirmation of a live-action Jetsons movie starring Jim Carrey. It’s a small mention in a lengthy earnings document, but it settles a question that has hung over the project since last fall: is this actually happening.

The Jetsons movie first surfaced as a Warner Bros. project back in October 2025, when Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and several other outlets reported that Carrey was in talks to lead the film, presumably as family patriarch George Jetson, with Jurassic World: Dominion director Colin Trevorrow attached to direct and co-write the script alongside Joe Epstein, the writer and showrunner behind HBO’s The Idol. None of it was locked in at the time. No deals had closed, Warner Bros. offered no comment, and the project sat in the kind of in-talks limbo that plenty of high-profile movies never escape. Today’s earnings slate is the first real signal that the Jetsons movie has survived that limbo and is officially part of the studio’s plans.

What still isn’t confirmed is just about everything else. There’s no release date attached, since the film is grouped with WBD’s slate for beyond 2027, suggesting a long runway before cameras roll. There’s no update on Trevorrow’s directing status beyond what was reported last October, and no word on who might join Carrey as Jane, Judy, Elroy, or the family’s robot maid Rosie. It would mark Carrey’s first live-action leading role since he stepped back from the spotlight in 2022, outside of his run as Dr. Robotnik in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, and his first time carrying an entire movie on his own in years.

For those who need the refresher, The Jetsons premiered on ABC on September 23, 1962, produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera as essentially the flip side of The Flintstones. Where the Flintstones lived in a cartoon Stone Age, the Jetsons lived in a cartoon version of the space age, all elevated highways, robot housework, and video calls decades before anyone actually had one. The original run lasted a single season of 24 episodes, but reruns kept it alive through the 1960s and 70s until Hanna-Barbera revived it in 1985 for two more seasons, pushing the show’s total to 75 episodes. It was also the first program ABC ever broadcast in color, which feels fitting for a show so obsessed with tomorrow.

The setup was simple. George Jetson worked a few hours a week pushing buttons for his blustery boss Cosmo Spacely at Spacely Space Sprockets, then came home each night to his wife Jane, teenage daughter Judy, young son Elroy, their dog Astro, and Rosie the robot maid, all living in a high-rise apartment above Orbit City. Flying cars folded up into briefcases. Moving sidewalks did the walking. Video chat and push-button meals were treated as everyday conveniences instead of miracles, which is part of why the show has aged into something like accidental prophecy. It also gave the culture a shorthand for well-meaning exasperation in George’s signature line, “Jane, stop this crazy thing,” a phrase that has outlived plenty of shows with far longer runs.

The Jetsons never fully left pop culture after that. The characters carried the franchise into a 1990 theatrical film and later returned for cameos, spinoffs, and the kind of merchandise that keeps a 1960s cartoon family recognizable to people who weren’t alive for the original broadcast. Whether a live-action version can capture that same optimistic, gadget-happy sense of the future, filtered through Jim Carrey’s brand of manic physical comedy, is the real question now that the project is confirmed to be moving forward. For longtime fans, it is at least reassuring to know Orbit City is finally headed back to the big screen instead of staying stuck in development.