The showrunner of the new series has confirmed that guns are no longer in Fudd’s arsenal…

An updated reboot of Looney Tunes won’t feature guns “in response to US gun violence” according to showrunner Peter Browngardt. The new series, which will be made up of 80 eleven-minute episodes from Warner Bros Animation and stream on HBO Max in the US, has taken away Elmer Fudd’s gun and replaced it with a scythe.

“We’re not doing guns,” Browngardt told the New York Times. “But we can do cartoony violence – TNT, the Acme stuff.”

He added that in most other ways they plan to stick closely to the Looney Tunes vibe. “I always thought, ‘What if Warner Bros had never stopped making Looney Tunes cartoons? As much as we possibly could, we treated the production in that way. We’re going through this wave of anti-bullying, ‘everyone needs to be friends’, ‘everyone needs to get along’. Looney Tunes is pretty much the antithesis of that. It’s two characters in conflict, sometimes getting pretty violent.”

You can see Elmer Fudd’s new scythe-wielding hunting skills below…

Despite the lack of guns, Browngardt says that they’ve pushed the envelope “a little too far” in some cases, and those cartoons have yet to be approved. “Maybe they’ll come out packaged for an Adult Swim type of thing.”