A Late ‘Pinky & The Brain’ Writer’s Movie Is Now Getting Made — by His Son and With Puppets

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When Gordon Bressack wrote a play called Fuggedaboudit!, he likely didn’t expect it to come to life in this way.

Bressack died in 2019 after a long health battle, and is remembrered for sharing three Emmys with his colleagues on the 1990s animated staples Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain.

Now, seven years after his death, Bressack’s son, filmmaker James Cullen Bressack is dusting off Fuggedaboudit! to turn it into a feature film, with a twist. The roles will be played by puppets. Human actors played the roles in the 2009 stage production at the Hudson Backstage Theater in Los Angeles.

Per the logline, “After a car accident wipes his memory clean, a serially romantic New York model is confronted by an ex-fiancée, an ex-girlfriend, a mobster and a circle of brutally honest friends, all competing to rewrite his past before he figures out who he really was.”