Fat Albert

Fat Albert (2004)

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Animated character Fat Albert emerges from his TV universe into the real world, accompanied by his friends Rudy, Mushmouth, Old Weird Harold and Dumb Donald. Though the gang is flabbergasted by the modern world, they make new friends, and Albert attempts to help young Doris become popular. But things get complicated when Albert falls for her older sister, Lauri, and must turn to creator Bill Cosby for advice.

Date of release
2004-12-25
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (288)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Director
Joel Zwick

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
  • Filmed in: Philadelphia

Fat Albert is a 2004 American live-action animated comedy film based on the 1972 Filmation animated television series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids created by Bill Cosby. Kenan Thompson stars as the title character. Fat Albert transforms the cartoon characters into three-dimensional humans, who have to come to grips with the differences that exist between their world and the real world.

Production

Pre-production originally began in 1993 with Tracy Morgan slotted to play Fat Albert. However, it soon entered development hell as no studio was interested in the project.

The project was picked up again in 2001 with Omar Benson Miller being cast as the titular character with Forest Whitaker serving as director. However, production stalled again following reported clashes between Miller and Whitaker with Bill Cosby. This resulted in Whitaker being replaced with Joel Zwick. Additional cast for the prior iteration included Kel Mitchell, Lahmard J Tate, Aaron Frazier, Neko Parham, and Alphonso McAuley as Dumb Donald.

Afterwards, open casting calls were held in New York City and Los Angeles in hopes of finding an unknown child actor to play the titular character, but this proved futile and the role was eventually offered to Kenan Thompson.

David Gordon Green expressed interest in directing the film and claimed he lobbied for the director's chair by writing a letter to Cosby.

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