The only time the character of Popeye was brought to film was in Robert Altman‘s notorious failure starring Robin Williams in the title role. That film was a commercial and critical disaster, and nearly ended the director of the film’s legendary career. Still, that apparently wasn’t enough to ward off Sony from trying to bring him to movies again, as they have a new film in development. It’ll be done in motion-capture, and will be in, you guessed it, 3D.

Variety (via /Film) learned that Avi Arad, producer for much of Marvel’s film franchises, will be taking the producing reigns on the project. The rumor is that it will be penned by someone named Mike Jones,  whom it’s oddly difficult to find any concrete information on, except for the fact that he was apparently a writer for Variety and laid off a year ago. Funny how things work out, isn’t it?

They’re also keeping the plot under wraps, because Lord knows that every movie news site is just digging for information on a new movie featuring Popeye. Regardless, we can expect to see unnaturally muscular spinach eating sailors popping out at the audience within the next few years.

Would you want to see Popeye brought back to the big screen, and in a CGI, 3D coating?