Speedy Gonzales is getting his own movie.

Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog is reporting that New Line will bring the fast little Mexican mouse to the big screen with Garfield and Toy Story writers Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen. The film will be a mixture of live-action/CG and George Lopez is attached to voice Speedy. Lopez, Anne Lopez and Ocean’s Eleven producer Jerry Weintraub are among the co-producers.

The Looney Tunes character, known as the “fastest mouse in all Mexico,” debuted in 1953 and was developed into the character we know today in 1955. Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt’s 1955 Warner Bros. short, Speedy Gonzales, won the Academy Award for best short subject, cartoons that year. Speedy, who wears a yellow sombrero and whose catchphrase in “Andale! Andale! Arriba! Arriba!” was a regular nemesis of Sylvester the Cat. But he has caused some controversy in recent years, and some networks, including Cartoon, don’t air Speedy toons because of negative and severely outdated ethnic stereotypes.

Deadline says the character will be updated to fit modern sensibilities. “We wanted to make sure that it was not the Speedy of the 1950s — the racist Speedy,” Anne Lopez said with a chuckle. “Speedy’s going to be a misunderstood boy who comes from a family that works in a very meticulous setting, and he’s a little too fast for what they do. He makes a mess of that. So he has to go out in the world to find what he’s good at.”

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