There are some things in this life that you should never do. You don’t make fun of develop-mentally disabled people, you don’t eat food straight out of the dumpster and you don’t ever ever play Ouija board but a couple of screenwriters are about to break the rule and play the damn board game anyway… Read the rest of this entry »
That logo above was from the photo I took at the Comic-Con ‘09, a banner for the upcoming toy-based movie STRETCH ARMSTRONG that Hasbro previously announced to release on April 15th, 2011.
Last night at the midnight showing of G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, I told my best friend to be ready cause there’ll be plenty more of these toy based movies coming our way and he couldn’t believe his ears especially when I told him someone great like Ridley Scott was set to direct MONOPOLY movie,.. the world doesn’t know which side is up anymore.
So I figured we need to keep ourselves informed as to what the hell is going on, to make sure that when these movies open nationwide, we would know what to expect and not get our hopes up because I have a feeling that disappointment will be the least of the problems.
Frosty of Collider had a chat with Brian Goldner, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hasbro who revealed bits and pieces of the developments of some of these projects..
“Stretch Armstrong” will probably be our first movie out. It’s already slated for April 2011. Steve Oderkirk is writing the script. “Candy Land” is being written by Etan Cohen and Kevin Lima is our director; he did “Enchanted”. “Monopoly” is Ridley Scott. “Battleship”, we’re working on a “Battleship” movie it’s really gonna be a lot of fun.
Stretching as a superpower brings a lot of humor to the idea so imagine a big humorous super-powered, super-human kind of movie.
CANDYLAND
“Candy Land” is not just about the board game. If you really think about it, it’s an adventure that a kid goes on with his parents when they go across that board. It’s an adventure game so think of that as the beginning point and take off from there.
MONOPOLY
“Monopoly” has this wonderful history. If you’ll remember, “Monopoly” was literally invented at The [Great] Depression, so that idea, this fiction that’s really there, this non-fiction fiction that’s really there in the game and in the fact that there’s such great roots to this brand and the history of the brand, we bring this to life with a story about families.
Ridley did have an idea. He grew up on “Monopoly” over in the UK and “Monopoly” is a brand that’s all over the world. But for Ridley, he’s always been a guy that’s created these great big worlds and so for us, “Monopoly” is this great big world that will look like our world but of course there are certain things about it that make it uniquely a “Monopoly” kind-of-world.
BATTLESHIP
I’m not going to tell you quite yet but I will say that it’s everything you could imagine in a “Battleship” movie. It’s really a phenomenal idea.
We’ll see if Hasbro has a counter attack plan to respond to rival Mattel’s incoming movie projects: BARBIE, MAX STEEL, MAJOR MATT MASON.
This is what blockbuster seasons have come down to… Marvel vs. DC Comics and Hasbro Vs. Mattel.. let the wars begin!
