Robert Rodriguez Back to Future with 'Jetsons' Movie

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LOS ANGELES - Grindhouse might have taken a drubbing at the box office, but director Robert Rodriguez is very much in demand.

He is in talks to direct a live-action feature version of futuristic 1960s cartoon The Jetsons for Warner Bros.

At the same time, he has met with Will Ferrell and Universal executives for helming duties on Land of the Lost, based on the 1970s Sid and Marty Krofft fantasy TV series to which Ferrell is attached to star.

While no offers have been made, sources say Jetsons has the edge because its script is farther along. One possible hurdle the studios will have to contend with is Rodriguez and the Directors Guild of America.

Rodriguez left the union in March 2004 when it refused his request to share the director's credit with Frank Miller on Sin City. Rodriguez could direct a studio movie if he declared himself under "financial core" status with the DGA, paying partial dues but remaining a nonmember.

Rodriguez was most recently in theaters with the Planet Terror portion of Grindhouse, a double feature with Quentin Tarantino. The film earned about $24 million at the domestic box office in North America. 

The Jetsons was previously brought to the big screen in 1990 as an animated film.