Daffy's Rhapsody

Daffy's Rhapsody (2012)

Elmer Fudd attends a musical concert, only to find it's Daffy Duck performing a song about escaping hunters, and Elmer is unable to contain himself, donning his hunting gear and chasing the duck as he finishes his song.

Date of release
2012-02-10
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (20)
Runtime
4m
Genres
Animation, Comedy, Music
Director
Matthew O'Callaghan

Casting

Interesting facts

Daffy's Rhapsody is a 2012 animated Looney Tunes short film featuring the characters Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd. Directed by Matthew O'Callaghan and written by Tom Sheppard, the film is an adaptation of the song of the same name which was sung by Mel Blanc and recorded in the 1950s by Capitol Records. Daffy's Rhapsody was first shown in theaters before Warner Bros.' feature-length film Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Unlike the previous Looney Tunes 3-D shorts, Daffy's Rhapsody was not immediately released on home media. In 2016, the short was uploaded to the official Warner Bros. Animation YouTube channel but eventually removed, leaving unofficial uploads of the short being available.

Production

In the early 1990s, Greg Ford and Mark Kausler planned and pitched an adaptation of the novelty song "Daffy Duck's Rhapsody", sung by Mel Blanc and based on "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" by Franz Liszt.

Years later, following the production of Coyote Falls, Fur of Flying and Rabid Rider, Warner Bros. president Sam Register entered writer and director Matthew O'Callaghan's office, where he shared a CD of novelty songs and stories recorded by Blanc. Register had plans of creating animated shorts based on the songs, combining the Looney Tunes characters with CGI animation.

The short was produced by Reel FX Creative Studios and completed in 2011, animated by Douglas Bell, Ernesto Bottger, Rod Douglas, Eric Drobile, Avner Engel, Bryan Engram, Shaun Freeman, Troy Griffin, Tim Hatcher, T. Daniel Hofstedt, Joseph P. Johnston, Matt Kummer, Steve Lambe, Stephen Orsini, Chad Stewart, Doris Wang, and Trevor Young.

Blanc's vocal track was separated from the original recording and remastered for the short, with the score being adapted by Christopher Lennertz. Billy West was brought in to reprise his role as Elmer Fudd; West had an admiration for Blanc, having met him in the early 1980s.

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