Apparently there is going to be a Hasbro Cinematic Universe.
"We learned last year that Hasbro was going to move forward with a series of interconnected films based on their various properties, such as G.I. Joe (which is getting a reboot), Micronauts, Visionaries, and M.A.S.K.. Now, per THR, a full writers room has been assembled to help develop a plan for the creation of these interconnected films and stories."
http://collider.com/hasbro-cinematic-universe-writers-room-michael-chabon/
Lionsgate and Hasbro are teaming up on a Monopoly movie and have tapped Andrew Niccol (“The Truman Show”) to write the screenplay.
Lionsgate and Hasbro Allspark Pictures will produce and Lionsgate will finance the film, which centers on a boy from the game’s modest Baltic Avenue on a quest to make a fortune.
Back in January of 2012, it was announced that Adam Sandler would produce and star in “an operatic, ‘King Lear’-like” Candy Land movie from Columbia Pictures and Hasbro. Naturally we all took this to be a sign of the impending apocalypse and calmly awaited our fates. Luckily the world didn’t end—and even better, the movie might be in trouble now if the copyright owners of the popular board game’s characters have anything to say about it.
This week brought the news that Warner Bros might be planning on creating yet another new “Cinematic Universe” revolving around the many different Hanna-Barbera animated characters and series that the studio has the rights to produce. It’s really quite an impressive list that includes (and this is nowhere near comprehensive): Captain Caveman, Dynomutt, The Flintstones, The Herculoids, Hong Kong Phooey, The Jetsons, Jonny Quest, Josie and the Pussycats, Space Ghost, and Yogi Bear. At this weekend’s Cinema Con event, Warner Bros revealed that in 2018, the movie now called S.C.O.O.B. will be the studio’s “first shot at unlocking the whole Hanna-Barbera Universe.”
Jumanji is definitely the worlds worst board game
I am IN on a Space Ghost movie. May a whole life biopic that follows him through his younger years as a super hero and then settles into his second career as late nite host on Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
True but that movie with Robin Williams was good.
They're also talking about remaking it with The Rock and Kevin Hart.
I've been waiting for the video game movie trend to take off for over a decade now. It seems so simple. Maybe the WoW movie will spark it. Or maybe video games have gotten so good at story telling and cut scenes that movie makers feel they can't improve on anything? I know there were talks of a God of War movie as well as Starcraft, but I think they fizzled out.
No doubt the God of War movie would have been awful just like every other one of those Greek god movies, but that still doesn't leave me any less surprised that they didn't attempt it.
Speilberg is working on Ready Player One. That will be more of an homage to all things 80s, especially video games.
There have been a ton of Resident Evil movies. I remember there being some discussion about an Uncharted movie recently. Aren't they rebooting Tomb Raider? I heard Daisy Ridley's name with the project.