David Goodman has been tapped to pen “Hong Kong Phooey,” Alcon’s take on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon being produced by the company’s Andrew Kosove and Andrew Johnson. Rat Entertainment is also producing.

Goodman, an executive producer and writer on “The Family Guy,” worked on “Who is Killing the Great Chefs?” a remake of the 1978 movie “Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?” which is set up at Warner Bros. He is also adapting the web-comic “Last Blood.”

Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove, both of Alcon, are producing the film along with X-Men: The Last Stand director Brett Ratner and Jay Stern.

The cartoon which aired in the mid-1970’s featured Scatman Crothers in the lead role, a dog working as a police-station janitor who would jump into a filing cabinet and transform into a kung-fu superhero. Alcon plans to make the adaptation a live-action/CGI hybrid.

[Source] Variety