The name Peter Fonda brings to mind themes of lawlessness (”Easy Rider”), rebellion (at the end of “Futureworld” he flips the bad guy the bird) and fast-racing joyrides (”Dirty Mary Crazy Larry”). But since it also sums up thoughts of one of Hollywood’s greatest families (Henry, Bridget, Jane, etc.), perhaps it’s no surprise that the 67-year-old antihero’s next flick will be his most family-friendly.

“I’m going to start a film in October called ‘A Handful of Beans,’” Fonda revealed to us recently while promoting his bad-ass new Western “3:10 to Yuma.” “It’s a fairy-tale fable type of a story, a G-rated film. I like the fact that I’ll do a G-film.”

The flick is a modern-day, time warping tale that plays loosely off other fables like “Shrek,” but it will be in live-action. Fonda signed on to the flick earlier this month, but isn’t aware of his co-stars just yet. “I haven’t the foggiest idea,” he laughed. “But I’m in it.”

“There is an allusion to [the story of 'Jack and the Beanstalk'],” Fonda said of the kid-friendly script. “It’s alluded to in the way that its [storyline is] like ‘Jack and the Beanstalk.’ There’s some magic beans. It’s a great little movie.”

Fonda begins work on the flick in a few weeks, and we can only hope that the movie will somehow involve another slow-motion shot of a cackling Fonda giving the middle-finger to the bad guy. “It’s sweet, wonderful and bizarre,” he promised.