Animated ‘Blues Brothers’ In Development

Bento Box Entertainment, an independent, Emmy-winning studio (Fox’S Bob’s Burgers; Comedy Central’s Legends of Chamberlin Heights; YouTube’sGlove & Boots), today announced it will develop and produce The Blues Brothers as a new primetime animated comedy series.

The project comes from co-creators and executive producers Dan Aykroyd, Judy Belushi and multiple Emmy-winning original Saturday Night Live writer Anne Beatts.

Bento Box plans to shop The Blues Brothers to television platforms starting in May. The series chronicles the music, mayhem and comedy adventures of Jake and Elwood Blues, along with the characters within their master blues band.

Each episode will feature a score and soundtrack curated with the soul, blues and R&B classics and hits performed by the original legendary musicians, as well as new performances recorded specifically for the show. The series will also highlight special guest appearances from aspiring talent, blues legends and superstars from today’s music world.

Aykroyd, Belushi and Beatts brought the project to Bento Box Entertainment, the studio best known for producing young adult-targeted primetime animated series for television and other platforms worldwide. They will be joined as executive producers by Bento Box’s Scott Greenberg and Joel Kuwahara; Rehab Entertainment’s John W. Hyde and Blues Brothers’ manager Eric Gardner.