It was learned a couple months ago that director Robert Rodriguez would be tasked with bringing forth the live action adaptation of 'Jonny Quest' to the big screen.

While details on the project were scarce at the time, Rodriguez has come forward in a recent interview with Slash Film to speak on how he plans to bring the Hanna-Barbara cartoon property to life.

"I thought it'd be really cool to do a legitimate action/adventure film that just happens to have a kid in it," he explained. "Not a kids film; the Spy Kids were more like kids films, this would be like a real action-adventure film because that's what the original series was like. It was a hard hitting, kickass action-adventure series. That's what enticed me to go do it. My own series had already played out. That was a cool property still that the studio had. I thought I would go see what they thought of it and they were really into it."

"It'd be different from anything that I've done. I've never done anything really that wasn't either a really small little kid type movie or a more violent action film. This would be like doing a James Bond/Indiana Jones movie. Imagine you're a kid and James Bond is your bodyguard and your dad is Indiana Jones. It's one of those movies and you just happen to be in it."

He went on to speak on what about this franchise particularly interested him.

"There are just so few properties that are interesting," Rodriguez stated. "I've always wanted to do one because you learn a lot. Doing a studio project like that, you would learn something that you would bring back to something that you do on a smaller scale. You have a bigger budget than I would normally work with. So I was always looking for a franchise. I knew Dan Lin a long time. He did Lego Movie, he's a producer, he did a movie with me called Shorts. Years and years ago he brought me Jonny Quest. I was like, 'You know, I have my own series. I'm doing the Spy Kids movies.' Once those played out, he came back again recently and said, 'What about Jonny Quest?' I'm still a huge Jonny Quest fan. My kids still watch Jonny Quest. They're still so into it. I turned them onto it when they were little and now they're 17, 18, and 12 but they still love it."

There is currently no release date on the project, and Rodriguez doesn't yet know if it'll be his very next production.