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Brendan Fraser and Sarah Michelle Gellar have selected their next project — and it's a pretty original one. The two '90s icons will join Annie Murphy, Josh Gad, and Elizabeth Hurley for Breaking Bear, an animated series produced by streaming service Tubi, and it's apparently a mash-up betweenYogi Bear and mobster staple The Sopranos. Bring out the Gabagool, Boo-Boo! This time it's the bears who are hunting criminals.

Per Deadline's report, the adult animated series will see Fraser and Gellar as members of a "dysfunctional family of bears who go full criminal to stop frackers, mobsters, and a psychotic wolf pack from destroying their home. As they spiral deeper into the criminal abyss, they face off against biker gangs, an egomaniacal news anchor, and their own spectacular talent for self-sabotage." The two actors will executive produce alongside Gad and Julien Nitzberg. Tom DeLonge will also participate as executive producer with...

Exclusive: Brendan Fraser (The Whale), Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Annie Murphy (Schitt’s Creek), Elizabeth Hurley (The Royals) and Josh Gad (Frozen) will lead the voice cast for Tubi’s new adult animated series Breaking Bear.

The series parodies the tropes of mobster dramas, comically combining elements of characters like Yogi Bear with series like The Sopranos. It hails from Julien Nitzberg (The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia), Evoke Entertainment and Tom DeLonge’s To The Stars Media.

Created by Nitzberg, Breaking Bear is billed as “a fur-flying, law-breaking, forest-saving rampage following a dysfunctional family of bears who go full criminal to stop frackers, mobsters, and a psychotic wolf pack from destroying their home. As they spiral deeper into the criminal abyss, they face off against biker gangs, an egomaniacal news anchor, and their own spectacular talent for self-sabotage.