Oh my. For years I’ve been saying that Hollywood is bankrupt of ideas. When they began making old TV shows into movies, that was a sign (The Flintstones… what!?). When they began making amusement park rides into films, I thought the writing was on the wall (The Haunted Mansion… what!?). And of course, they’ve been making games into movies for a bit now, with such instant classics as Max Payne. WHAT!?
Enter the latest desperate grab for audience cash – films from games. No, board games. Yep, that’s right. Reportedly, directors as notable as Ridley Scott and Peter Berg have respectively signed on to big-budget versions of Monopoly and Battleship, and there’s even a version of Candy Land in the works. More from this report from Morning Edition. Wow. If the Hollywood decision makers continue the trend of never having to learn to read or think, maybe one day they’ll make a movie out of card games like Hearts or Bridge. Yay Culture!
hahahahaha – classic. I can’t wait for – um – MONOPOLY???!!!! WTF
Hey – I still have your sweat shop coffee cup
Battleship?
Is that going to be some kind of war movie?
Monopoly is feasible, I guess.
Still, I really wonder what kind of movies these will turn out to be.
Snakes and Ladders, anyone?
Maybe its just me, but I really enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean.
I don’t think Hollywood is becoming any more bankrupt (funny that were talking about Monopoly) of ideas then it has ever been. I just think that there will ALWAYS be people/studios with bad and ideas and people/studios with good ideas.
Cluedo(Clue) was made a few years back and obviously Sergei Eisenstein has already done “Battleship”
Pass the Pigs is a franchise in the making.
I agree about the first Pirates movie, James. It was OK. The other two, not so much, and I really can’t think of another film based on an amusement park ride that I would consider decent. I just don’t think it’s the best narrative-generating idea.
Fair enough to say people and studios have good as well as bad ideas. But I’m not decrying good or bad ideas, but rather the absence of new ideas. (But perchance we can term making films out of board games and amusement park rides a “bad idea”. Then I’d agree.)
I a world… where dice had letters on them… one man would have to BOGGLE the minds of the world. Just when you thought you knew how to spell “wrong”…. you were WRONG.
Come on! It would rock!