I’ll admit Clue ranks high on my guilty pleasure list, but the studios are so devoid of scouting real talent that we suffer with greenlighting projects like this? Seriously?!
Universal has tapped director Kevin Lima (Enchanted) to direct a live action adaptation of the enduring Milton Bradley board game, from a script by Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder). How exciting.
I can picture it now… Meryl Streep stars as Gramma Nutt, held hostage by Gloppy (Tom Cruise hoping for an Oscar) and the Gingerbread People deep in the Molasses Swamp. Only our adolescent heroes (Dakota Fanning and Zac Efron) and can help Plumpy (Jack Black) rescue her, but their exposure to MTV and Nintendo Wii has destroyed their imaginations, leaving little hope of ever finding the Brigadoon-esque Candy Land, let alone traversing it’s many dangers in time to reach Gramma before she’s turned into fudge.
Somebody at the WGA is not doing their job. There are hundreds of incredibly gifted writers in this town slaving away, creating compelling stories with inspired characters, and this is what goes into production. What truly scares me is what comes next… Michael Bay takes on The Weebles. McG reinvents Colorforms. M. Night Shyamalan shows us the dark side of Shrinky Dinks. Forget the economic recession, we’ve fallen into a creative black hole from which we may never escape.
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I, too, admit that CLUE is a guilty pleasure. This is just plain inane, however. Don’t these people know that films based on board games never really sell anyway? Even video game adaptations have their problems when it comes to connecting to audiences. Instead of this, I’d rather see Christian Bale playing Chess with his cinematographer. (“You took my pawn! What the f, man!”)
Don’t say anything bad about the Wii! The games for that console are mostly very innovative and creative games which definately encourage imagination.
MTV on the other hand…
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