Jim Carrey Is Officially Starring in The Jetsons — But Warner Bros. Never Said He’s George

Warner Bros. Discovery quietly dropped a pretty interesting piece of news into its second-quarter shareholder letter this week: a live-action Jetsons movie is officially on the studio’s future theatrical slate, and Jim Carrey is starring in it.

The exact wording is pretty simple. While discussing movies planned for beyond 2027, Warner Bros. listed “a live-action Jetsons film starring Jim Carrey” alongside upcoming projects from The Matrix, Batman and the Game of Thrones universe.

That’s confirmation straight from Warner Bros. itself. Carrey is in The Jetsons. What Warner Bros. did not say is that he’s playing George Jetson.

That's important because some reports have already made the jump from “Jim Carrey is starring” to “Meet George Jetson.” Maybe that’s exactly who he’s playing. Who knows? It certainly wouldn’t be a shocking choice. But until Warner Bros. actually says it, George is still an assumption.

Carrey was first linked to the project back in October 2025, when TheWrap reported that he was in talks to lead the movie. Colin Trevorrow was also in talks to direct, with Trevorrow and Joe Epstein discussing the screenplay. At the time, the project was still described as being in the early stages and no deals were said to be in place.

Now we at least know the movie survived development hell and Carrey made it through with it. And this is where I’m a little conflicted.

I was never a big Jim Carrey fan.

His earlier stuff was usually way too over the top for me. The mugging, the yelling, the rubber-face routine — I know that’s exactly what a lot of people loved about him, but it wore me out pretty quickly.

The older Carrey has gotten, though, the more interesting I find him.

His dramatic excursions have always shown there was a lot more there than Ace Ventura bouncing around somebody’s living room, and even some of his more recent work has felt different simply because he isn’t operating at full cartoon volume every second.

That version of Jim Carrey in The Jetsons? Yeah. I’m curious.

And I love The Jetsons.

There’s something about that ridiculously optimistic version of the future that still works for me. Flying cars. Moving sidewalks. Rosie. Video calls. Push-button everything. George working about three hours a day and somehow still acting like Mr. Spacely has him chained to a desk.

Frankly, 2062 looked a hell of a lot more relaxing when Hanna-Barbera imagined it.

If Carrey is George, the role could work provided they don’t just turn George Jetson into another excuse for Carrey to go completely berserk.

George was never really that guy. He was frazzled. Put-upon. Nervous. Occasionally selfish. Frequently in over his head. The comedy usually came from watching a basically normal suburban dad trying to survive a future that was supposedly making life easier. A more restrained Carrey could actually be pretty damn good at that.

But there’s another possibility I wouldn’t mind seeing.

Mr. Spacely.

Carrey could make an interesting Spacely because that character actually gives him permission to go bigger. He could be loud, obnoxious, intimidating and completely ridiculous without overwhelming the rest of the movie.

The problem is that Spacely may simply be too small a role if Warner Bros. is billing this as a Jetsons movie “starring Jim Carrey.” Still, until somebody officially says “Jim Carrey is George Jetson,” I’m keeping that possibility open.

For now, what we actually know is good enough: The Jetsons is finally getting another shot at live action, Jim Carrey is involved, and Warner Bros. considers it important enough to mention among its future theatrical franchise plans.

That alone gets my attention.

Just don’t make George spend two hours talking out of his ass.